Need Drill(s) to Fix Slice

[JackT]

Hi to All,

While playing yesterday, I sliced nearly everyone of my tee shots when using my driver. I know what causes a slice; I just don't know how to fix it. I figure that I'm just not releasing at impact resulting in the clubhead not being square to the target. I plan to go to the driving range and practice with just the driver. What tips or drills can you recommend to help cure my slice?

Thanks in advance.

Jack T

[doogkie]

Re: Need Drill(s) to Fix Slice

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[bazet]

Re: Need Drill(s) to Fix Slice

Hi to All,

While playing yesterday, I sliced nearly everyone of my tee shots when using my driver. I know what causes a slice; I just don't know how to fix it. I figure that I'm just not releasing at impact resulting in the clubhead not being square to the target. I plan to go to the driving range and practice with just the driver. What tips or drills can you recommend to help cure my slice?

Thanks in advance.

Jack T

Here's my drill...maybe works for you

Drill 1
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Use the driver, but just hit it to 100 meter marks..take around 20 balls...then increase to 125 meters...then 150 meters...then 200 meters..but make sure the shot are all straight


Drill 2
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Feet together and legs together drill, to promote inside out swing path. I normally hit 10-20 balls to 100 meter marks using driver but.

Drill 3
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If i tee up to high, chances for my ball to go slice is very high, normally I tee it low.....to promote level impact...

Drill 4
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Go to open space.try swing with your driver and throw the driver to the target.....give it a try for 4-5 swings without ball..just to give an idea what's the feel of hand release.......

Drill 5
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Take a pause for 1-2 secs at the top swing..and use the club head to generate speed...this drill is to create lag or tempo.


I just cured from severe slice, and now constanly hit straight ot slight fade...

I'm amateur, well it may not work with you.... but give it a try

[jweighell]

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Well, I was sure that I didn't have an out-to-in swing path when I was slicing a few weeks ago, but it turns out I did!

The thing that helped me was to visualise hitting the inside half of the ball - this forces you to come at the ball from the inside.

[mr3856a]

Re: Need Drill(s) to Fix Slice

Hi to All,

While playing yesterday, I sliced nearly everyone of my tee shots when using my driver. I know what causes a slice; I just don't know how to fix it. I figure that I'm just not releasing at impact resulting in the clubhead not being square to the target. I plan to go to the driving range and practice with just the driver. What tips or drills can you recommend to help cure my slice?

Thanks in advance.

Jack T

This is the best tips I've ever, ever gotten, and turned me from a slicer into a drawer (and then hooker) of the ball nearly overnight.

When you get to the top of your backswing, simply return your right elbow to your right hip at the beginning of your downswing.

Bye-bye out-to-in swingpath, bye-bye slice.

[msklar92]

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be careful not to bring the club too far inside on the take away. coming inside will cause an over the top movement on the downswing. One common reason for bringing the club too far inside is reaching for the ball. Make sure your arms are hanging straight down at address with some spine tilt - tilt from the hips. If this is ok, put a rubber tee to the right of the ball and just out side the target line (i.e. on the side of the ball away from you). Take a normal swing. If you hit the tee you know your swing is outside to inside. Next, try to hit the ball without hitting the tee . If you can accomplish this, you know you are hitting more on plane or just inside the swing plane. As mentioned above, if you swing from the inside, your right elbow will come into your right hip.

[tomallinder]

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The slice is the biggest malady of many golfers... know people that have been playing for DECADES and still slice it. They don't know why, many don't want to know why. They just aim way out to the left then bring it back across the fairway and still in trouble. What happens when they get to a hole that has trees right near the tee and they can't aim out there?

Biggest cause of a slice is one thing: swing path. 95% or more of all golfers approach the ball from the outside. Not only responsible for the ball curving too much to the right but also shots hit on the toe of the club especially with mid, long irons and woods. Also results in a steep angle of approach to the ball resulting in lost distance among other problems.

Very good drills and solutions posted above. Lots of golfwise people here!

[GoBucks]

Re: Need Drill(s) to Fix Slice

This is the best tips I've ever, ever gotten, and turned me from a slicer into a drawer (and then hooker) of the ball nearly overnight.

When you get to the top of your backswing, simply return your right elbow to your right hip at the beginning of your downswing.

Bye-bye out-to-in swingpath, bye-bye slice.

^^^^ Agreed! I even slightly brush my right hip (side) with the inside of my right elbow just to make sure I do this.

[mr3856a]

Re: Need Drill(s) to Fix Slice

^^^^ Agreed! I even slightly brush my right hip (side) with the inside of my right elbow just to make sure I do this.

Of course, then you start coming from the inside and eventually start hooking things like I do now. Opposite problem, and just as frustrating! Now I'm trying to straighten out my hook, not my slice!

[braveheart]

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Ive learned that I come from the inside well but my spine angle straightens as well as my R elbow on the downswing, with me hitting off the heel, pushing and slicing to the right. Not the normal path for a slice but with the change of spine angle and open clubface(poor release) it can be disastrous.

[GoBucks]

Re: Need Drill(s) to Fix Slice

Of course, then you start coming from the inside and eventually start hooking things like I do now. Opposite problem, and just as frustrating! Now I'm trying to straighten out my hook, not my slice!

I noticed the same thing when I tried the elbow to side thing (hooking) but realized I was turning my body too soon on my downswing. I now try on my downswing to wait until my hands are about waist high before I begin turning with my lower body followed by upper body. Hope that helps?

[Gary W]

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I initially solved my slice by forcing myself to bring the club back to the inside. Produced a nice draw that would occasionally develop into a full blown hook off the tee, but at least it worked well enough to allow me to play the game. However, at the end of the day it was still a band aid on the problem.

After reading Hogan's Five Lessons, I focused on the few things he really emphasizes - foot positioning (especially left foot turned out), straight left arm, keeping forearms close together, and firing the hips through to begin the downswing. Everything began going hard left. Now I can use a more conventional takeaway - wide and low, straight back from the ball - and have no real concerns with slicing. If I don't conciously think about keeping the forearms close together throughout the swing, I'll begin seeing a pretty strong fade, but that is easy to fix.

So, if you want to straighten out the slice enough to get around the course you can try taking it back inside, like others have suggested. However, I would encourage you to read Hogan's book as it certainly improved my understanding of the swing.

Cheers.

[eastley]

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I use to hit boomerang slices, was really annoying. I could not work out how to fix it until someone said something to me one day.

I was using a Cheap driver with regular flex shaft, the problem was it was a cheap shaft and could not take my swing so I was hitting balooned slices all the time. I then decided to get a new driver, I got a 983K with the regular 4560 Shaft, even though the shaft is still regular it is way way better and has stopped my high slices.

The shaft on the 983K actualy goes further into the head of the club I believe so it played a bit stronger than regular, and my swing is nearly requiring a stiff shaft but so far so good with the regular.

[clinpep05]

Re: Need Drill(s) to Fix Slice

After reading Hogan's Five Lessons, I focused on the few things he really emphasizes - foot positioning (especially left foot turned out), straight left arm, keeping forearms close together, and firing the hips through to begin the downswing. Everything began going hard left. Now I can use a more conventional takeaway - wide and low, straight back from the ball - and have no real concerns with slicing. If I don't conciously think about keeping the forearms close together throughout the swing, I'll begin seeing a pretty strong fade, but that is easy to fix.

Thanks,
I needed this lesson... It has helped me tremendously!!!!

[james.welsh]

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After reading Hogan's Five Lessons

Hogan's book is for people that have a problem HOOKING the ball. Most people slice nowadays.

To stop slicing you have give up the idea that the swing is straight back and straight through. It's not. From above if you drew a line where the club head moves you would see a curve. Going from inside the target line at the top of the backswing, back down to the target line at impact and back inside the target line on the follow-through. So if the ball is exactly in the middle of this semi circle, the club will hit the ball at the back but on the inside half of the ball. The club hits through the ball and the ball takes a fraction of a second to bounce off the club-face. By the time the ball leaves the clubface it is moving down the target line.

If you hit the ball on the back of the ball by the time the ball leaves the clubface it's actually going to the left.

That's just the way it is.

You keep hitting the ball where you think you should hit it (on the back) and the ball keeps going to the left and than side spin takes over and makes the ball slice over to the right.

Then you say I guess I better aim more to the left and the slice gets worse and worse.

Try what some have said, drop your right elbow a bit on the downswing so you're more on plane and the club will come to the ball more on the inside of the ball and the ball will go straighter.