Learn How To Fix Your Slice
There is one thing that drives over 80% of golfers crazy. The slice. For the uninitiated a slice is a shot that starts left of the target and curves violently right for right players. For left hand players it starts right and goes left. There is nothing good about a slice. Both distance and accuracy are affected. The problem is that really only beginner to intermediate level golfers actually slice, due to their inexperience and low level of knowledge they don’t know how to fix them.
So let’s start with why does the ball curve the way that it does? The two main ball flight laws that determine a slice are clubface and path. The clubface has 83% more effect over the direction of the ball than the path. For all the slicers reading that means that your clubface is open at impact. To make matters worse, because you fear the ball going right you will move your path to the left. Now you’re not even close. Now you have an open face and a path that cuts across the ball. The left to right spin is out of control and you won’t hit a fairway all day.
Do you recall my statement earlier about how important the clubface is?? This is the key to how to stop slicing. We need to square up or even close that face. Believe it or not, this can be done with relatively little effort. In the golf swing the clubface is controlled by the grip and the flexion and extension of the wrists. First we need to check whether you have a neutral grip on the club. If you wear a glove if you have a wear mark on the pad of the hand or the thumb than I can tell you your grip needs fixing.
Firstly the lead hand or top hand. The grip must run diagonally through the fingers from the middle joint on the index finger down to the base of the joint on the little finger, the thumb needs to be softly placed on the right side of the grip, to the left of center. If you have done this you should achieve a vision of 2-3 knuckles showing on the top hand. Now for the right hand, this again must be done more through the fingers basically running through the first joints on all fingers on the right hand. The thumb will be placed on the left side of the grip, just to the left of center. Two other things to check for are light grip pressure and that the left thumb should be covered by the right hand. These steps are vital to fixing a golf slice
It is very difficult to have an open face with the grip shown above. The clubface is king. A Golfer can fix their slice in many ways. This tip attacks a common problem amongst all slicers: the clubface due to the grip.