stop slicing

Quahog217

Hey guys starting to slice my drives a lot. What drills or videos have helped you the most, i need to fix it before it gets worse, cheers quahog. Btw im playing off 7 so difficult to shoot a score at the the moment.

A New earth

Quahog217 wrote: »

Hey guys starting to slice my drives a lot. What drills or videos have helped you the most, i need to fix it before it gets worse, cheers quahog. Btw im playing off 7 so difficult to shoot a score at the the moment.

As I mentioned on another thread in the last few days I cured my slice when I changed set up to get extra distance and discovered slice was gone. It might be just with my swing (not great at getting weight shifted). Anyway maybe give it a try on a few drives:-

Idea is to hit ball on a very much asending basis, tee ball high, favour right side for weight at set up and hit up into the air. I have a short backswing so maybe that is needed, I don't know but imagine it might be difficult to make a very full swing??

Perhaps this wouldn't suit your swing but maybe give it a try (Handicap 9 by the way) good luck

dan_ep82

There's a lot of ways to slice the ball but I think you have to have the club path swinging left of the target line so the ball curves away from the path whilst starting on the angle of the club face.

Easy huh

ShivasIrons

Quahog217 wrote: »

Hey guys starting to slice my drives a lot. What drills or videos have helped you the most, i need to fix it before it gets worse, cheers quahog. Btw im playing off 7 so difficult to shoot a score at the the moment.

Check your impact point on the face, heel strikes lead to slices, center the strike for straighter shots.

rollotomasi

Quahog217 wrote: »

Hey guys starting to slice my drives a lot. What drills or videos have helped you the most, i need to fix it before it gets worse, cheers quahog. Btw im playing off 7 so difficult to shoot a score at the the moment.

I suggest look at your grip (assuming your not aiming left and the swing is outside the plane from the top).

After struggling with the driver for ages, I recently changed my grip to a strongish left hand and weakish right hand (biokinetic grip) and its improved my woods.

Another thing is to try to draw the ball. Aim to the right hand side of the fairway and see a draw to the middle. This will help a more inside to out path. If the ball does not draw, it will hopefully be only a straight shot.

alxmorgan

I struggled with this for a long time. Still do on occasion. What helped me most was understanding why it happens. Basically it's a path issue if you have a centered strike. (big if and Shivas Irons is correct - check where you are hitting the ball on the face).

So ball flight laws to start with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-89M1vt66FA

So basically face basically determines where ball starts and path how it curves. So if you start straight and then turn right the face is pointed at target but the path is out to in.

So you need to adjust your path. How ? Well this is the hard bit. There are loads of things to try and you will need to try them and see which ones click with you.

There are loads of drills available on youtube. Try Mark Crossfield, try meandmygolf etc etc

This idea for clock face for in to out is a good learning tool if nothing else:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPwOWIQ7jnE

Let us know how it goes and even uploads some vids. Best of luck

e.r

If you try hook the ball off the planet at the range it can help

Dolph Starbeam

A New earth wrote: »

As I mentioned on another thread in the last few days I cured my slice when I changed set up to get extra distance and discovered slice was gone. It might be just with my swing (not great at getting weight shifted). Anyway maybe give it a try on a few drives:-

Idea is to hit ball on a very much asending basis, tee ball high, favour right side for weight at set up and hit up into the air. I have a short backswing so maybe that is needed, I don't know but imagine it might be difficult to make a very full swing??

Perhaps this wouldn't suit your swing but maybe give it a try (Handicap 9 by the way) good luck

This is my main problem, I always get stuck on my right foot. There are a few drills on YouTube to try get the feeling of transferring your weight, one where you take your normal stance, then move your left foot over beside your right, you are now too far away to hold the club at the ball but just hover it in the air where your arms are comfortable, then start your backswing, when about to start your downswing step your left foot back into position. I found it really helpful, don't worry about the strike or where the ball goes, just get used to the feeling of transferring your weight.

Search meandmygolf on YouTube, it's one of their videos, I'm on my phone so can't find it now.