How Do U fix a golf slice and how do u get more distance?

Question

im a left handed golfer

Answer 1

Its all in the hips. Keep your eyes level through impact turn your back to the target in the backswing and accelerate through the ball. Slices are most often caused by decelleration at impact. Try to hit the ball and finish by hitting an imaginary bag, five inches past the ball with the toe of the club first. This will create a closed face at impact.

Answer 2

don't pay for expensive lessons

some ideas about hitting straight ( some that even pros recommend ) :

-practice, practice, practice

-watch the pros play on tv, try to mimic them, especially when they show shot-tips there'e always a segment like that sometime

-get that practice ball on a string, you can straighten out your shot without spending alot of money struggling on the courses

-videotape yourself to see what you're doing wrong

-get a friend to watch you, tell you his opinion

-when i had trouble, started losing my straight-shottedness ( technical term :D ), i started playing a tight course and not wanting to bean anyone, i just HAD to hit straight :D never know, maybe it could work for you

don't change your clubs for more distance, total scam there

if your clubs are old, definitely replace them

and remember 'control' 'discipline' IT'S THE WHOLE GAME AFTERALL

Answer 3

Quick fix.... Tee it up higher.

Answer 4

The easiest way to solve 90% of slices and hooks is to close your feet in your stance and keep your head down. by doing these two things it should strighten you out. distance is another problem all together, if you are a new golfer, it comes down to studying up on the correct mechanics of your swing. If you are more expierienced and are looking for that eternal extra 10 yards, i would check with your local golf shop and see what type of exercises they can give you to try. With out knowing you and seeing you play personally, noone can give you online advice for that.

Answer 5

I'm a lefty too.  A slice is caused by the clubface being open at impact.

If you try a stronger grip, that should help close the face at impact and help straighten your shot or maybe even produce a draw.

You might also want to try a flatter swing plane.

Answer 6

if youre swinging the club out to in (check your divits)

            

swing to the top, then have a friend grab the club and   start it down on the correct plane, then try to mimic that feeling

if the face is open at impact (your divit is straight at the target)

close the face when you setup to the ball

Answer 7

Hey there, I'm a Club pro in South Africa, the problem most of the time is that your hips are turning to early, practice hitting the ball with your hips in one place (eg: follow through with your shot "shoulders and arms" but keep the hips and waist in one place) you will hook the ball. Now try time your hips to be square at impact and follow through with your hips.

Answer 8

Tom Watson once said in Golf Digest that if you have a slicing problem that when you grip your club, you want to see three knuckles on your left hand for a right handed golfer, or your right hand if you are a left handed golfer. I tried it and it worked.

Another option is in the most recent golf digest that you should tee the ball up higher.

You should also have a fuller rounder swing.

Answer 9

You typically slice if you don't get through the ball. Try this, try to hook the ball. Once you can hook the ball each time, shorten up your follow through and you should be straight. Good luck. This worked for me, but may not work for you.

Answer 10

A slice is caused by an open club face or a swing path that is outside to inside, both produce clockwise spin.  Most slicers aim further left (for a righty) and that compounds the problem. If your swing is ok then you need to close the clubface, a stronger grip is one cure.  If your swing path is outside to inside you need to work on swinging in to out or at least square to square.  A lesson with a good pro only costs 30$ to 100$ and should be well worth the cost.  The straighter ball flight will produce more distance.

Rick

Answer 11

Ok first lets do this.....Slice-(in a lefty as yourself) the flight of the shot will go from the right to the left. Now that we have that covered lets see what causes it(this is going to sound childish but bear with me it helps all my friends). Hold out your right fist, its the ball, now to get it to have that right to left flight you are gonna have to hit it in a manner to impart a counter clockwise spin, which means that your swing path will come from the out side to the inside. Basically its like your fist is a clock and 12 is towards the target, to get that slice spin your clubhead will hit the ball at seven and come through at 1 so to avoid that hit it on 5 and go to 11. What you are doing is extending your club way out on the way down and coming into the ball from the inside. Hope this helps.

Answer 12

get an instructor they will teach you are watch a lefty golfers swing dint be afraid to try new swing tiger has done that many times and he the best golfer in the game

Answer 13

There are two different kinds of slices, pull and push slices caused by improper backswings. We'll start with push slices, as I have had a problem with them. Push slices occur when your backswing comes too inside and vertical. When you swing down, ideally you should be trailing the club, and following through to the left. However, push slices are caused by the common misconception that after you hit the ball, the followthrough should continue towards the target. Since the swing plane is circular, the club leaves plane early, pushing the ball left, where it will usually proceed to slice also. To correct this, you must make sure your swing is on plane, and the timing of your backswing and downswing should be properly timed to maximize torque and inertia. This is easier to fix than the pull slice.

The second type of slice is a pull slice. This occurs when the backswing is outside and flat. To make up for taking the club back lower than the desired plane, most golfers tend to throw the club out, negating all momentum and inertia. When this happens, the club leaves the circular plane early, and comes to hit the ball from the outside with an open face. The ball will take off to the right but drift back to the left. To correct this, again it is necessary to take the club back on a steeper plane, and make sure to keep your wrists sufficiently ******. If the wrists don't stay ******, all stored momentum will be lost. It is necessary to start the hip movement initiating the backswing a fraction of a second sooner, to increase the potential energy and stress on the golf club.