slicing the ball

[redstar780]

i think i slice the ball because i am opening the club face when i try to put force into the swing with the right shoulder how do i prevent this

[arcartist]

Re: slicing the ball

You could be swinging down on the ball and trying to lift it at impact. Try bending over more and "sweep" the ball off the tee. Something that help me, and I had a mean slice, was to put a tee in the ground in line with the target in front of the ball and try to follow through over that tee after contact. This helps if you are coming from the outside to the inside of the swing plane...another habit that creates a slice.

[hindude25]

Re: slicing the ball

yea i have a sharp slice and have tried a lot of things to fix it. with any of my drivers or woods, i hit the ball left and then the ball starts to fly right, like the wind was pushing it.

[baker]

my iron shots are fine, when it comes to the driver it goes right nearly every time theres so much advice on what do i dont no whats right. can you help ?
thanks baker

[reliance201]

Re: help me to stop slicing please

Perhaps it is you swing plane ? Whn we over extend we sometimes swing outsie the line and this causes us to cut across the ball at impact.

[halftime]

Re: help me to stop slicing please

I saw a post yesterday that said, when you start your down swing think about droping your hands toward your right foot ( if your right handed ) at the start of the down swing. I went to the course and it worked for me. It was the only thing different i had to think about so it was easy. Try it.

[miffin]

I had a particularly heavy night before but went into the monthly medal next day. I was doing OK and was well in contention. However, later in the round when I started feeling quite tired, I started to slice my drives! This is something that I do not normally do. I tried a few things like making sure a full body turn and pulling my right foot back a bit at address and taking backswing inside a llittle more. But, I couldn't fix it. It cost me a really nice round. Can anyone suggest what might have been causing this and a cure please?

Bri

[Neil18]

Re: Slicing when tired

I had a particularly heavy night before but went into the monthly medal next day. I was doing OK and was well in contention. However, later in the round when I started feeling quite tired, I started to slice my drives! This is something that I do not normally do. I tried a few things like making sure a full body turn and pulling my right foot back a bit at address and taking backswing inside a llittle more. But, I couldn't fix it. It cost me a really nice round. Can anyone suggest what might have been causing this and a cure please?

Bri

Drink less, run more!

[miffin]

Re: Slicing when tired

Yep, well I did have that in mind. However as I am getting on a bit, as time goes on, this is likely to happen to me more often. So, I was looking for some suggestions for a fix on the course to get me through the last few holes.
Bri

[GregJWillis]

Re: Slicing when tired

...I started to slice my drives! ...Can anyone suggest what might have been causing this and a cure please?
Bri

Before each swing late in the round, do a couple of baseball swings very relaxed and fluid. You know, where you just swing the club parallel to the ground, and you let your arms rotate through impact. That feeling of rotation is what you are missing.

[BrianW]

Re: Slicing when tired

Do the rotary practice swings like Greg says then make sure you hit right through the ball with conviction to a balanced finish, dont make a short jabby follow through.

[miffin]

Re: Slicing when tired

Thanks folks. Up with the answers as usual.

Bri

[kbp]

Re: Slicing when tired

also, when you get tired, you may be relying less on your muscles and more on your skeleton for support. We have a tendency to start locking up joints and setting our weight to "prop" ourselves up on our own framework so our muscles don’t have to expend as much energy supporting us. You can imagine how this can limit your movement and change the way you swing.

[LowPost42]

Re: Stop Slicing

How it works is that by moving the ball back in your stance, your path now becomes in-out helping to reduce your slice.

To play the ball way up in the stance you either have to a) play for a pull if you shut the face down to target, b) play for a fade if you keep the face square to target or c) play for a slice if you never close the face.

Like you I had the same problem - blocking the face open "keeping it pointed to the target" for as long as possible. However, since the clubhead moves on an arc, I was wiping across the ball with it that far up in my stance.

[lgskywalker37]

Re: Stop Slicing

LowPost42 just understands the basic flight laws and is saying exactly what your 'buddy' was saying.

Though what you just did is found a band-aid fix. You should try to find out why/where your swing is flawed and why your path was so out to in instead of just moving the ball back and still hitting with and out to in swing and jsut hitting it earlier on in that out to in to make it in to out.

Unless you are just a weekend golfer shooting in the 90's and having fun, if that is you, congrats on your no more slicing.

But, if you ever actually want to be good, then you must learn how the swing works.