Why am i slicing my driver?

Question

so i use to slice all my clubs but my coach told me to just take it slow. so since then i can hit all my irons straight and consistent. id like to start using my driver again but i can hit it 350 directly to the trees on the right. so at my last tourney i shot 118 and i played like **** but that was still my best score. (i had some bad tee shots with my 3 wood and my hybrid was complying with me)

so how can i get my driver to work with me so i can get the ball deep out there and play smart with my irons, short game, and putting.

i really would like to break 100 by my district tournament in two weeks

Answer 1

heres a few things to try that usually fix that for me

1)loosen your grip

2)you might be moving your hips too fast to begin your downswing so your hands can't catch up which causes your clubface to be open at impact. swing the club with your arms a little sooner when you begin your downswing

3)you could be coming across the ball. ind of swinging it like a baseball bat which tends to happen in amateurs because the driver is so long. try coming more from the inside on your downswing

Answer 2

Here's a trick to try at the range. Place the ball right about at your left toe, but place your club head in the middle of your stance. Starting from back there might help convince you to push through with your hands and straighten you out at impact, instead of leaving the face open or coming from outside the ball.

If it works you can tweak your ball placement as desired to get the results you would like. Also once you start to square the face through impact, you may find you are able to play a more traditional ball placement again.

Answer 3

First you need to understand the physical reasons of slicing:

1) the club head is open, OR

2) the club head is moving from outside to inside (with respect to a line parallel to your feet, i.e. a line pointing to the target).

After understand this, you must find out which of these two reason that cause your slice.

A lot of players and coaches might give you different advices on how to change your body movement to correct slice. My advice is don't simply follow theirs. Because their advice usually only fix slice that caused by one of the above 2 reason. You must find out the actual reason first. The easier way to find this out is go to a computer golf simulator that can analyze your club face and swing path.

Remember, it is not your body that hit the ball, but your club and then hand and then your arm and then your shoulder then finally your body.

After finding out the physical reason, then find out what wrong with your wrist/hand, then arm, then shoulder. Only then try to improve your body.

The remedy from your slice depends a lot on your swing style. So fix that work for someone else might not work for you. You can only find a permanent fix for your slice after knowing the physical reason and after knowing which part of your limbs is wrong,

Answer 4

possibly 3 reasons

1. Looking from the top your club is crossing the ball from 2 o'clock to 8 o'clock

2. Your clubface is open at impact.

3. Both of the above.

Answer 5

Put the driver in the garage and hit the longest club you can safely hit off the tee and still find the fairway. Then depend on your "straight and consistent" irons to keep you in the game.

Answer 6

First off you can't hit it 350, unless you mean 350 feet.  Take a lesson from a PGA professional.

Answer 7

there could be alot of thigns going on with your swing to cause a slice...but for the most part a slice is from an open club face at impact.  Try a lose grip, check your address postion as well as your ball postion, go back to the fundamentals, also may want to try shutting(turing the club face to the left a bit) a little bit at address, that tends to help me a bit, as well trying to rotate your forearms near impact to help square or even shut the face slightly to help promote a draw.  Hope this helps..

Answer 8

First of all, if you are slicing your driver it should stay in the bag during actual play. It should only come out on the course when you can hit it straight. Don't worry so much about distance. Accuracy is much more important.

That being said, often times golfer slice the driver because they are trying to over power it and end up ruining their swing plane and/or leave the club face open at impact. Your coach is right, slow it down so that you can have better control over the club.

Another thing to try is to shift your grip so that your thumbs line up a little behind the center of the club. This is what is known as a strong grip. Having too weak a grip can leave the club face open at impact.