How To Fix Your Slice

How To Fix Your Slice

Another article on how to fix a slice. There must be 8 million of these things written over time. Hi! I’m Randy Peterson. Coming to you form Ely Callaway performance center.

And today we’re talking about how to cure a slice.

It’s seems like that when you pick up these magazines that it’s a mystery that people cannot figure out how you cure a slice. I’ve listed a couple of things over here on the board. I can tell you what won’t cause you to hit a slice.

Gripping the club too loose or too tight won’t cause you to hit a slice. Looking up, swinging too quick, coming out of your posture, bending your arm, having a poor pre-shot routine. None of those things will cause you to hit a slice.

Nor will swinging too flat or too upright, or too long or too narrow or too short or laying off the club or having it across the line. None of those things are gonna cause you to hit a slice independently. Having too much x-factor, too little x-factor, playing too much x-factor. Again none of those things are gonna make you hit a slice.

There’s one thing in common with every slice that’s ever been hit since man started playing golf. And that thing is impacting the ball with the club face open relative to the path of the club’s on.

That’s what causes a slice. That alone is the sole cause of the slice. So if you’re working on fixing your slice and you’re not working on something that’s affecting the face angle if you fix your slice it’s just random. You’re not addressing the actual problem. You’ve got to fix the face angle.

If you’re serious about fixing your slice, let’s go outside and I’ll show how to fix it.

So seriously let’s fix your slice. It’s not that hard. I’m tired of seeing these magazines, every magazine, every tv commentary, everything about is fixing the slice. And there are 8,000 different way to do it. It’s not that hard if you focus on what you need to do to fix a slice. I’ve seen it a thousand times. I promise you it’s not that hard if you do this.

First thing you want to do, again, is to get the correct grip. Get your left hand on top of the club slightly so you can hinge your wrist correctly. What you have to do to fix your slice is close the club face first. That’s the most important thing. Second we’ll address the path.

But I got a drill here that I promise you will fix the slice and teach you to learn to use your arms to control the club face. So what you want to do is take a 7 or 8 iron. Choke down on the club just slightly. Put the ball on the middle of your feet.

Tee up a couple of balls put them in the middle of your feet. Feet real close together coz you’re trying to keep your body quiet and isolate and focus on your arms. What you’re gonna do is turn your shoulder a little bit and hinge your wrist and take it about a half way back and as you start down, you’ll gonna start rotating the club. You’ll gonna rotate the club and feel the toe of the club beats the ball on the heel or beats the heel to the ball. What you want to do when you slice is you want to rotate the club sooner.

It’s a timing issue. It’s not a magnitude issue. It’s not how hard you are rotating. You see people all the time get closer to the ball slices and rotate harder and harder at the ball but it’s always too late.

So if you’ve got to slice don’t try to rotate the ball faster, rotate the club sooner. And that’s the crucial point. Start the club rotating sooner and you that with your arms. You can see I’m not doing that with my shoulders. If I rotate my shoulders I shift the club on the outside.

That’s certainly a characteristic of somebody who slices. Is that they’re trying to keep the ball from going to the right. So they spin their shoulder and pull across the ball, leaving the face open.

What you want to do turn your shoulders hinge your wrist a little bit, start to activate your arms with the toe of the club wrap around the ball. And that will have a hook to it. You can see the ball goes out and draws. The way you can tell that you’ve rotated the golf soon enough is to just watch the ball. If it’s not hooking rotate the club sooner.

Pretty soon you start to correlate the feel of the flight with where you’re rotating the club. Don’t try to rotate the club faster or harder. Rotate it earlier in your down swing.

Now if you’re somebody who gets the club from the outside then put a head cover to the outside. That will help you. That will encourage you to keep your shoulders back and rotate with your arms down or keep the club travelling from the inside. So if you’re hitting that head cover then you’re turning your shoulders and pulling the club across the ball.

So what we want is little shoulder turn, little wrist hinge, rotate the club sooner not faster and your shoulder stay back to keep the club down from the inside. If you do those couple of things I promise you you’ll hit a draw like that every time.

Once you get the feel of that rotation widen out and start taking a little bit bigger swing with the same feel of the arm rotation. Remember your arms and hands are the only part of your body that have direct control of the club face. The fastest most effective way to control a club face by a mile is to learn to use your hands and arms.

Sometimes you hear the pro say I square the club at my right side. That’s not really what’s happening. They’re always rotating their arms. They can’t control the club with your. You can have a minor effect on where the club goes and how much it rotates. But you’ll never get to where you need to go. If you’re slicing you’re not looking for a minor effect. You’re looking for a major effect. And a major effect, the most dramatic way to control the club face is learning to rotate your arms correctly.

So let’s rotate the arms sooner, not faster. Let’s keep the shoulders back so the club can travel from the inside. And if you do that I promise you, you will not slice the ball anymore.

Good Luck!

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