How To Stop Slicing

You are sick to death of slicing right? You’ve searched high and low for the ultimate golf slice cure. You’ve taken lessons, you’ve read books, bought the lastest magazines, bought the gizmos, surfed the internet and watched Youtube videos.

What has your success been like? Pretty poor I suspect. The answer lies within you and you’re understanding of the golf swing and why the slice is occuring.

Let’s go through the laws of impact and why the ball flies the way it does. These 5 things force the ball to fly:

1. Club face

2. Swing path

3. Angle of attack

4. Centredness of strike

5. Speed

By far, the club face is the biggest determining factor as to why you are slicing. In case you don’t know, I’ll spell it out for you. YOUR CLUB FACE IS OPEN! The face is 5 times more influential than the swing path in terms of ball direction. This means that even if your path is swinging 3 degrees to the left, a 1 degree open club face will make the ball go right.

I wish in your case we were talking about numbers so small. The chances are your club face is miles open. At least 5 degrees open. This means you have to swing the club over the top or left for a right hander.

Why you don’t hit it far

The ball doesn’t travel with any velocity because you don’t have any pressure going into the ball. Chances are speed isn’t a problem. The speed is going in the wrong direction and not pressuring the ball enough. The swing path is going way left and the club face is open. Sounds like a poor combination to hit the ball long and straight doesn’t it?

Your Golf Slice Cure

Somewhere in your swing you are opening the face. Here are some checkpoints:

1. Grip – if you have wear marks on your glove on the heel pad (the right part of your hand near your wrist) or on the thumb than your grip is an issue. Grip it more in the fingers and have at least 2 knuckles showing on the left hand.

2. Takeaway- if the toe is rotating past the heel than you are rolling the face open in the backwing. Keep the toe in front of the heel.

3. Top of backswing – if the toe if the club is pointing to the ground than the face is open. Get the leading edge at around 45 degrees when looking from down the target line.

4. Delivery – Same as point 2

5. Post impact – get the toe past the heel and feel like the club face points to the ground.

Check out these club face checkpoints in your swing and you can self diagnose your own personal golf slice cure.