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If his head goes out at the 1 yd. line but he's hooking the ball inbounds past the Goal Line plane, he's out at the 1, correct?
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I don't think this is correct, if I'm picturing the play the way you mean it.
Let's say the runner leaps diagonally across the sideline and towards the goal line. His body is airborne past the sideline (that is, not technically OOB because he's not touching the ground but in the air outside the field of play) but he stretches his arm out and manages to keep the ball inside the sideline, in the air above the field of play, and gets it across the goal line.
This is a touchdown as the ball broke the plane of the goal, inbounds, before the runner touched anything out of bounds and before the ball itself went out of bounds. The spot of the ball would be the position of the BALL when the runner TOUCHES out of bounds. In this case, that's the end zone - touchdown (although technically, I guess in this scenario the ball is dead before it goes out of bounds because it becomes dead when the touchdown is made).
In your play, the runner isn't out of bounds when his head goes out of bounds unless his head hits the ground out of bounds or he head-butts someone standing on the sideline... in which case you probably have other problems to deal with.
I've got this right, right?
-SW---