10 Tips to Cure YOUR Slice
- At address, and without moving your head except to look down, check your grip and make sure that you can see 2-3 knuckles of your target-side hand and the fingernails and first knuckle joint of the middle two fingers of your trail-side hand.
- At address, check to make sure that your ball position is not too far forward in your stance. With driver, a good place to begin is with the ball position about two inches inside target-side foot. For irons, middle to slightly forward of middle for shorter to longer clubs.
- At address, begin with your shirt buttons facing slightly behind the ball and your upper spine a tad further away from the target than your lower spine. Maintaining this angle through the swing, and especially during the downswing, will promote a flatter downswing and attacking the ball from the “inside.”
- Waggle the club prior to hitting to release tension in your hands and arms AND THEN… maintain a light (not loose!) grip pressure throughout the entire swing… especially as club comes to impact and beyond. This will allow clubhead to naturally release through impact. When you hold the club too tight, the tendency is for the clubface to remain open at impact.
- Don’t “snatch” the club with your hands as you begin your takeaway. Focus on keeping the clubface facing the ball or at the target for several feet as the club moves away from the ball. Excessive use of your hands during takeaway oftentimes leads to fanning the club face open, which in turn means you’ll have to rotate the club back to square at impact. This is too reliant on timing.
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| Right Hip Pulled Back and Around |
- During the takeaway/backswing, the trail-side hip (right hip for right-handed golfers), should be pulled back behind and around over the inside of your trail-side leg/heel due to a good shoulder turn, NOT away from the target causing it to move “outside” your trail-side leg/heel. This prevents swaying excessively with the hips and prevents a “reverse weight shift,” which happens when the trail-side hip sways away from the target while the upper body moves toward the target. Opposite of what was mentioned in tip #3.
- At the top of your backswing, stop and take a look at your target-side hand (left hand for right-handed golfers). If the wrist is “cupped,” flatten it so that the back of the hand is aligned with the forearm. Work this position out by taking practice swings, pausing at the top, flattening the wrist, then swinging to full finish position.
- During downswing, begin motion with a “feeling” that the shoulders are pointing right of target OR that your back is facing the target as the club and arms drop OR that your trail-side (right hip for right-handed golfers) back pocket “sits” on your target a bit as the downswing begins. Try each one to see which “feeling” works best for you. This move allows the arms and clubshaft to “drop” in front of the trail-side hip, which in turn promotes a flatter swing and attacking the ball from the inside position.
- Learn what good impact position should look and feel like! Set up at address, and then simulate impact position without taking a backswing. Alternate between address position and impact position several times to feel the difference. Differences are:
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| Address Position |
· At address, your hips are square
to the target line… at impact, hips are opened about 45 degrees to target line.
· At address, shoulders are square
to target line… at impact, shoulders are still square or slightly open to
target line.
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| Impact Position |
· At address, head is over or
slightly behind the ball… at impact, head is still over or slightly behind the
ball.
· At address, arms are fairly
extended… at impact, target-side arm is
fully extended while trail-side arm has some bend (arms are
not fully extended until follow-through position after impact).
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| Right Shoulder and Hip Closer to Target than Left Shoulder and Hip |
- Finish what you started. Assuming you have no injuries and are capable of making a decent rotation, finish with your trail-side shoulder (right shoulder for right-handed golfers) and trail-side hip CLOSER to the target than the target-side shoulder and hip when posing in your finished position. This assures a good rotation of the body, which not only assists in squaring the clubface through impact… but contributes to a tremendous source of power… translated: more distance!
Well there you have it! Print this tip sheet out and try one, some, or all of these next time you practice on the range and say, “goodbye” to your slice!
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