Help me and my slice PLZ!!!!!?

Question

what is the best method or aid i can use to cure my slice. i have my next tournament February 27. my first tournament i shot 143 and lost 18 balls (everything was ladrial) me second i shot 152 and only lost 5 balls. iv been playing for 4 months give or take and my slice is really killing me. so what is a cheap aid i can buy or make(under $40)

Answer 1

This is really easy. Square your stance up to your target, then slide your right foot back to where your toes on your right foot are even with the instep on your left foot. This will cause you to close the face through impact. I swing the same for all driver shots. To change my ball flight I slide my back foot to get a draw, a fade or a straight down the middle shot. I learned this at an early age playing baseball.

Answer 2

make sure your stance is not open , keep your left arm close to your body on the back swing and  on your downswing. your  swing path should be inside to outside, most players slice due to an outside to inside path which makes you come over the top and cut across the ball. also check your right arm on the down swing . is it flying outside on the down swing . both arms should be close tto your body. hers a drill take a hand towel and put under your left arm pit if you are right handed swing the club hit the ball without the towel falling from your armpit . if u can do this your swing will be on the correct path

Answer 3

shift to right, using shldrs

Answer 4

You talking about paint ball?

Answer 5

Don't buy an aid.  It sounds like you are taking your club too far inside on the back swing.  Go low and slow and keep your clubface square throughout the swing and stay on the same path on the way back.

Answer 6

I know what you mean. I would first start by standing farther away from the ball. It may feel odd at first, but trust me, it will work miracles on your swing. Just stand farther out from the ball.

You might also want to tee it up with an iron that you can control, and hit it straight and short rather then far and out of bounds. I would film yourself, and then compare it to the swing of tiger woods. (nikegolf.com). Look at what he does and find out what you are doing wrong.

You might want to fix up your grip. Again, look at Tiger's and try to match it.

An important drill is taking your backswing, but on your swing stop the club at the point of impact. Examine the face. If its square, you'll hit it striaght. Do this over and over again, trying to end up with a square face. (don't cheat). This should ingrain in your brain and muscles the feeling of having the clubhead sqaure at impact, and should help fix the slice.

The best place to work on it would be at the driving range. Go and hit there, and work on hitting it straight. Slow down your swing, and then see where the ball goes. If you hit it straight, then start to speed it back up. Keep your swing at the tempo where you hit it straight, even if you are only hitting it 100 yards. The more that you practice, the more you will notice the slice going away. Whatever you do, don;t be affected by the distance. Slow down your swing to a tempo where you will hit it straight. Then work back up from there. Its all in the swing machenics. For proof of this, look at John Daly, he kills the ball but cannot hit it straight. How good is he. Rather, a guy like Mike Weir, who hits it not so far, but is accurate, is finishing in the top ten all of the time. Take the accuracy over the distance, and then let the distance come to you over time.

Good luck.

Answer 7

I never get tired of answering the slice question. The best aid u can use is a shoebox take the ball and place it next to the box. Give yourself enough room to hit the ball but also make it possible to hit the box. Your set up dictates how your will swing the club, you can make alterations but its becomes harder to square up the face. Make sure your chest is in unison with your feet line, also be sure that your knees are just slightly flexed to allow a free turn. Square the face into the inside back of the ball this comes from a swing path that's slightly inside but not flat. The shoe box will allow you to visually see this so don't think about it just hit it and fix your set up. The slice is a habit that can be broken it just takes repetition to ingrain a proper swing good luck!

Answer 8

a lesson

Answer 9

Lessons are the way to go... You will not learn much asking a question on here, but I will put my two cents worth in on this.

If you are slicing it is because your club face is open at impact.  Move the ball up in your stance a touch, turn your right hand to the left (assuming that you are a righthanded player) making you rotate your hands a little more and also close up your stance because I would bet that you are aiming way left to compensate.

Again, lessons will be the best.. GOOD LUCK!!! We all need it except Tiger!

Answer 10

(assuming you're right handed) At address, pull your right foot back slightly away from square, and open... so that the imaginary target line created by lining up your feet is aimed right of the actual target. This will temporarily help with your slice. You can also rotate your grip to the right slightly, on the club handle. The best thing to do is see a teaching pro to straighten out your swing. If you're anxious to see your scores drop though, hit less club off the tee, even if you're 50 yds. behind your competitors.  If you keep your tee shots in play, you'll score better. Out-of-bounds penalties add up!

Answer 11

I reviewed the video you sent me and responded with a few basic tips. I'm guessing that they didn't work the first time so you probably abandoned them. That's how difficult golf is. Positive results don't occur after a couple of attempts. You need hands-on instruction. Spend the $40 on a professional instructor and record everything he or she tells you.

Pj D, thanks for my daily chuckle. I needed that.

Answer 12

Slice is a very difficult problem to fix because many problems can cause it. The fundamental  to cause slice is that your club face is open in the swing path. I would recommend to go back to the fundamental.

First, your grip. Do you grip the club correctly from both hands? The V from both hands. should be pointing to your right ear. If you have a very weak grip, your V can point to your chin or even left side of your face. With that, you will slice the ball assuming you swing the ball normally. 2ndly, your posture, alignment and ball position. Make sure you align correctly. Align from the heel of your feet and not the toe of your feet because we may flare a little bit at the toe.  Now, backswing. Are you on-plane all the time? You can stop Half way of your back swing (i.e. club shaft is parallel to the ground) and check for the toe-up position of your club. If it is not square and pointing to the sky, you are wrong. Also, your club face should never go behind your hand and body in this position. The shaft of the club can never go behind the toe line at this position too. If you let your club face go inside your body too much, a lot of bad thing can happen. Now, at the top. Are you square all the way? Your wrist, your, arm, your club face and your shoulder. Are they all correct? Downswing, A lot of slicer do "over the top", or outside in swing. A lot of causes for it. First thing first, make sure you backswing is "on-plane" first. It cannot be too much inside out. I have seen a lot of my students over-correcting their swing to overcome the outside-in issue. If you are not on plane, and too much inside out, your will block yourself during the swing, and naturally you need to correct it by swinging to the right causing the slice, or push. Finaly, the release, your clube face should be square at the impact.

There are many stuffs to talk about to fix the slice. Bottom line is, we need to go back to the fundamentals. I don't believe those little tricks you can do in a short period of time to fix the slice, because it will not fix your slice completely. Remember, the ball is not moving, and it is your swing to cause the slice. The golf club is designed in the way only a proper swing motion can make it work perfectly.

Anyway, just some tips, and without seeing your swing, nobody will know what exactly goes wrong. Find a PGA por to help you would be  my suggestion.

Answer 13

no need to buy anything.  I had a slice problem.  The way i fixed it is just make sure that when ur taking ur backswing to not curve it as much and bring it up straighter its hard to tell with out a demonstration just bring it less with a shoulder turn and more with arms.  Its arms then shoulders