Slice my driver and draw my irons?

[snoopdoug]

About 50% of the time i hit a push slice with my driver and my 3 wood (3 wood is more like 75% of the time) and then with 8i thru 5i ill put a draw on it! My 5i and 6i are more of a duck hook and just cant seem to figure out what i am doing wrong. Any suggestions?

[BrianW]

Re: Slice my driver and draw my irons?

Is it possible for you to post a video of your swing from down the line?

You may be starting your down swing with your upper body and swinging out-to-in. I can only think that you are doing this and getting your wrists through with the irons but not with the woods. This would account for the right to left flight with the irons and the slices with the woods.

If this is the case then you need to work on starting your downswing with your lower body and dropping the club into the slot before swinging through.

Look at this video:

The Pump Drill - Golf Video | Golf Channel

[miffin]

Re: Slice my driver and draw my irons?

Are there any video's on this subject Brian?


Bri

[Ringer]

Re: Slice my driver and draw my irons?

About 50% of the time i hit a push slice with my driver and my 3 wood (3 wood is more like 75% of the time) and then with 8i thru 5i ill put a draw on it! My 5i and 6i are more of a duck hook and just cant seem to figure out what i am doing wrong. Any suggestions?

First instinct is to suggest your shaft flexes are all over the place.

Also, I believe your path is too far inside out. You may be hanging back on your right leg and tilted back behind the ball too much.

[BrianW]

Re: Slice my driver and draw my irons?

Are there any video's on this subject Brian?


Bri

Click on the "Pump Drill" link I placed in my reply.

[miffin]

Re: Slice my driver and draw my irons?

Click on the "Pump Drill" link I placed in my reply.

Whoops must be going blind. Thank you. Although I am playing a fair game now, I know that I do lapse into exactly this fault at times.

Bri

[miffin]

Re: Slice my driver and draw my irons?

Just re-checking on this one. The video especially. Is this only for irons?

Bri

[BrianW]

Re: Slice my driver and draw my irons?

Just re-checking on this one. The video especially. Is this only for irons?

Bri

No Bri, you should be using the same swing for woods. As they tend to be longer the swing plane will be flatter and the ball will be played more forward but the swing should be the same.

[miffin]

Re: Slice my driver and draw my irons?

Thanks. Tried it with the irons yesterday, blinking awesome. The height was something that I had never before acheived. Not consistent yet though.

Bri

[BrianW]

Re: Slice my driver and draw my irons?

Thanks. Tried it with the irons yesterday, blinking awesome. The height was something that I had never before acheived. Not consistent yet though.

Bri

Keep trying Bri

[xecor27]

Re: Slice my driver and draw my irons?

I have this same problem.

Is it possible for you to post a video of your swing from down the line?

You may be starting your down swing with your upper body and swinging out-to-in. I can only think that you are doing this and getting your wrists through with the irons but not with the woods. This would account for the right to left flight with the irons and the slices with the woods.

If this is the case then you need to work on starting your downswing with your lower body and dropping the club into the slot before swinging through.

Look at this video:

The Pump Drill - Golf Video | Golf Channel

[miffin]

Re: Slice my driver and draw my irons?

Work on this pump drill then mate. I am getting quite good at it now. I only used to go through little fazes of this fault but could not work out what was going wrong but now I know.

Bri

[miffin]

Re: Slice my driver and draw my irons?

For the first time ever, I hit all fairways on the 15 driving holes on my course Monday. That is since using this pump drill. Amazing. However, I was not quite as good with the irons, topped a few and pulled a few. I had the feeling that I was overdoing the left hip thing with the irons.

Bri