How to fix my slice?

Question

My drives slice terribly. Any suggestions on how to fix it? (I'm left handed)

Answer 1

before your swing close the head of your club so that when your wrists come around if they open your culb hear will be in good position. so start wrong so that when you mess up it goes right

Answer 2

A very simple key is to keep a dollar bill under your right armpit (assuming your right handed) This will keep you from coming over the top.

Answer 3

Without seeing you swing it is hard to say.  However, usually slices are caused by the path of the clubhead cutting across the ball,...and also an open clubface at impact.  

Here are 2 very general tips that might help temporarily.

1) Take a stronger grip.  Do this by loosening you grip on the club and rotating your top hand towards your back shoulder.  The "V" that is formed between your thumb and forefinger should point at your back shoulder.  Take that grip and you shpuld immediately feel how much easier it will be to square the clubface at impact.

2) This isnt something you want to do forever, but for a temporay fix,....try closing your stance up.  When players want to hit a hook,...they close their stance.  Doing this promotes swinging the clubhead on a path that goes inside the target line,....to the ball,....and then continuse outside the target line.

Through repetition, I fixed my slice a few years ago by concentrating on tucking my right elbow (Im right handed) against my side when i started my downswing.  This promotes an inside to out path on the golfball.  Of course, after a while I started hooking the ball,...but that's golf.  :-)

Good luck man.

Answer 4

Don't break your wrists.  Concentrate as much as possible on keeping your wrists straight.  That was my problem for years.

Answer 5

The reason most people slice is they tend do have a swing that goes from 'out to in,' or 'swinging over the top.'  What this means is you are imparting sidespin on the ball by cutting across the ball.  

A drill to fix this is to set a ball down where you would normally hit it.  Then, place a tee about six inches in front of the ball (towards the hole) and 6 inches away from your body.  When you swing, think about hitting the ball, and then hitting the tee.  This way, you'll be swinging 'in to out,' and you won't slice.

Answer 6

Correct swing sequence is

backswing, bump/arms in slot, turn hips to fire through

what you are probably doing is backswing, turn, arms fall

try a better tempo'ed swing.  let the club fall until about parallel to the ground before turning your hips.

Answer 7

what helps me is not to kill the  ball but swing through it.

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