All You'll Be Slicing Is Your Handicap

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced. - Lee Trevino

The most common golf problem beginners face is learning how to master the accuracy of their shot and eliminate the golf ball slicing especially when using the longer less lofted clubs like the driver. This often causes beginners to start slowing their swing speed down in order to hit the ball straight which results in a significant amount of lost distance that in fact may never come.

Golf Slice: Main Problem

The experience of having the ball veer off towards the right, like a banana, is nothing short of annoying. Most regular golf players spend countless hours trying to cure their golf slice just look at your local driving range at ball after ball slicing to the right.

You are not alone with this issue and with proper technique plus proper golf instruction, you can be well on your way to longer straighter shots.

What Causes A Slice?

When your clubface is turned open at the point of impact, the ball tends to have an enormous amount of clockwise sidespin, thus causing the slice.

Now if your swing path is outside-in, your clubface will hit the ball with a cut-throat right-to-left action. The ball will also make a clockwise spin and slice. Combining these two errors, there is little-to-no chance of keeping the ball in play.

How To Fix My Golf Slice - 5 Ways To Cure Your Slice

1.Remove Tension: golf players who slice the ball tend to use their body when swinging, more so than the hands and arms. Tension is also a factor. When the entire body is rigid and tense, usually caused by fear of making a bad shot, the clubface will stay open at impact.

2.Work towards getting your club across the line at the top of your backswing, this will allow the club to travel more from the inside on the downswing which gives you more time to square the clubface.

3.Golf grip slice: If your left hand grip is too weak at the address position you will tend to slice. Work towards getting the the left hand stronger on the club showing 2 knuckles.

4.Close the clubface: Make a conscious effort to close the clubface coming into the ball. This is best achieved by thinking of getting the back of your left hand to face the target. Straight shots are hit when the back of your lead hand is square to the target at impact.

Thought

Think of the clubface as the back of your lead hand . Both are square to the target for straight shots.

5.Change Your concept: A lot of times beginners tend to slice the ball because their concept is wrong in relation to the target line. Unlike Croquet where the handle is above the sweet spot, the golf club's shaft is on an angle and because of this we swing on in a tilted circular motion not a straight line.