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Tom's Featured Tip: How To Fix A Slice
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How To Fix A Slice
Most players have a tendency to either curve the ball from left to right or from right to left.
A modest left to right curvature is referred to as a fade, a severe left to right curvature is referred to as slice.
A modest right to left curvature is referred to as a draw, a severe right to left curvature is referred to as hook.
The problem that I encounter the most with my students - by far - is the slice. It's a score destroyer and a distance thief.
I fix a slice by first explaining what causes curvature, then teaching my students to hit a draw.
The exception would be if the student has extremely fast swing speed, I might teach them to hit a power fade. That curvature is noit suitable for most of my students, because with the driver it won't roll out much after it lands, and most of my students want the maximum total distance that they can get with the driver.
A draw provides that element of roll out.
The stock swing that I prefer to teach has an inside to square to inside swing path.
"Stock" means that you are not trying to do anything unusual with the shot.
To fix your slice and hit a draw, you need to
- Check your grip and make sure that it in a strong or medium strong position.
Never neutral or weak.
- Set up with square shoulders. That means that your shoulders are in line with your ankles, knees, and hips. Most slicers
set up with their shoulders very open to their other body lines. It feels natural to do this because when your right hand
is lower on the club than your left hand, your shoulders want to be open.
I've had experiences with students where squaring the shoulders and aligning the body correctly has cured their slice immediately.
As an experiment with this feel, try setting up cross handed, with your left hand lower than your right. Notice how your shoulders now feel closed to your other body lines.
It will feel like you are closed to your target line when you set your shoulders up square with your normal grip, get used to it.
- Align your whole body parallel left to your target line. Contrary to some teaching, it is not absolutely
necessary to set up with a closed
stance to hit a draw. However, if you do set up with a closed stance and a clubface aligned to the target, and if you
executed a swing
along your body lines,
your clubface would be closed to your swingpath at impact, and the resulting curvature would be a draw.
- Your swing needs to approach the ball on an inside path, and you must contact the ball with a clubface that is
slightly closed to the path - but it can and should be slightly open to the target at impact.
- Check your ball position. Golfers who have a slice normally have the ball positioned too far forward, so the clubface has
little chance of contacting the
ball from the inside because it's already moving to the left at impact.
Position the ball so that you make contact when the club is travelling on an outward path, with a face that's closed to the path.
Hitting shots that start to the right and then curve back to the target is an awesome feeling. If you do all of the things mentioned above, I guarantee that you'll experience that feeling - as long as you put the practice time and think about your swing correctly.
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