The worst feeling in the world is when your playing your best golf ever, and you come to one of the easiest holes on the golf course. With the opportunity to improve your golf score even better than what you have up until now. So, you reach back with everything you can muster in strength, and you knock the golf ball out of bounds with a terrible hook or slice. What happened? Your upset and frustrated after this hit, and your ready to let loose on anyone who opens their mouth. The only problem, it was your own damn fault. You went for that extra distance by over-swinging, and it cost you most likely of breaking your best golf score ever.
It really is sad to see someone go from being happy go-lucky on the first tee to total frustration by the 18′th tee. The game of golf becomes an instrument of torture instead of one of pleasure. Slicing your shots can cause a lot of embarrassment and frustration. If your a consistent slicer, does that frustrate you at all? Doesn’t that stimulate you to put forth a greater effort to figure out how to cure your slice? The whole idea of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results that only gets worse. You know what they call that don’t you. Insanity. It becomes a major swing problem that does effect the majority of golfers at some point. Yet it’s something that can be fixed fairly easily. Don’t let your slice bring you down with frustration. Learn how to improve golf swing, and eliminate the unwanted hooks and slices.
I’m going to talk about how to improve golf swing by correcting the slicing problem in this post, because I still have tendencies to do this during an average golf round. I haven’t been able to draw or hook the golf ball on a consistent basis for a very long time now. The reason I can’t play a draw, is because I have a broken left wrist that never healed properly. When finishing with your follow through you need to feel your wrists rolling to the left. I don’t have that mobility. I have more of a trained cut-fade shot today which is good, because I can count on this consistently bringing the golf ball from left to right-middle of the fairway. Jack Nicklaus, played with a cut-fade shot, and it didn’t hurt him with regards to accuracy and distance.
What causes a hook or slice? A hook is the opposite of a slice, their both caused by bad swing flaws. It’s the spinning motion effect of the golf ball when the clubface meets ball at impact, and the end result that is caused when the golf ball departs off the clubface. (it is the physical law of nature). Therefore, for a slice to occur the clubface must be open (to the right) at impact. In addition to the clubface being open it is also quite likely that the path of the swing plane of the golf club is traveling across the intended target line from outside to in (across to the left) through impact, exacerbating the side-spin problem. Since the golf ball curves to the right that means that the club face is open relative to the direction the club head is also traveling at that precise moment. That’s what makes it spin sideways, after a clockwise glancing blow. (The opposite occurs when hooking.)
What do you mean by feel? Feel is one of the biggest differences between a highly skilled player and an average player. Where does this feel come from? Blame for incorrect action falls on lack of feel. It’s caused by lack of knowledge of knowing your golf swing mechanics. What exactly is going on with your golf swing, and how can you correct your bad swing flaws? For instance where is the clubface pointing too at any given moment. (during impact). Finally, lack of feel for not allowing your golf club to swing with a fluid motion caused by good speed and timing. Instead what occurs as the end results of chopping, hacking, hammering, pulling or pushing, your way into trouble.
A common mistake I see with most high handicappers in trying to make adjustments in order to fix their slicing problems. They”ll close the clubface drastically at address. Figuring that this will fix their slicing problems. Having the clubface square at address is not the reason that the ball slices. As a matter of fact, starting with the face open (to the right) at address might actually give you a better chance of slicing it less. In order to get the feeling of allowing the club to release at impact with a straighter swing plane, it demands that one bring the clubface back more to the left or closer to square during the downswing.
The drills I’m about to describe to you will help to increase your feel for what is going on in your golf swing and through impact. Do these drills at your local driving range only:
It really is sad to see someone go from being happy go-lucky on the first tee to total frustration by the 18′th tee. The game of golf becomes an instrument of torture instead of one of pleasure. Slicing your shots can cause a lot of embarrassment and frustration. If your a consistent slicer, does that frustrate you at all? Doesn’t that stimulate you to put forth a greater effort to figure out how to cure your slice? The whole idea of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results that only gets worse. You know what they call that don’t you. Insanity. It becomes a major swing problem that does effect the majority of golfers at some point. Yet it’s something that can be fixed fairly easily. Don’t let your slice bring you down with frustration. Learn how to improve golf swing, and eliminate the unwanted hooks and slices.
I’m going to talk about how to improve golf swing by correcting the slicing problem in this post, because I still have tendencies to do this during an average golf round. I haven’t been able to draw or hook the golf ball on a consistent basis for a very long time now. The reason I can’t play a draw, is because I have a broken left wrist that never healed properly. When finishing with your follow through you need to feel your wrists rolling to the left. I don’t have that mobility. I have more of a trained cut-fade shot today which is good, because I can count on this consistently bringing the golf ball from left to right-middle of the fairway. Jack Nicklaus, played with a cut-fade shot, and it didn’t hurt him with regards to accuracy and distance.
What causes a hook or slice? A hook is the opposite of a slice, their both caused by bad swing flaws. It’s the spinning motion effect of the golf ball when the clubface meets ball at impact, and the end result that is caused when the golf ball departs off the clubface. (it is the physical law of nature). Therefore, for a slice to occur the clubface must be open (to the right) at impact. In addition to the clubface being open it is also quite likely that the path of the swing plane of the golf club is traveling across the intended target line from outside to in (across to the left) through impact, exacerbating the side-spin problem. Since the golf ball curves to the right that means that the club face is open relative to the direction the club head is also traveling at that precise moment. That’s what makes it spin sideways, after a clockwise glancing blow. (The opposite occurs when hooking.)
What do you mean by feel? Feel is one of the biggest differences between a highly skilled player and an average player. Where does this feel come from? Blame for incorrect action falls on lack of feel. It’s caused by lack of knowledge of knowing your golf swing mechanics. What exactly is going on with your golf swing, and how can you correct your bad swing flaws? For instance where is the clubface pointing too at any given moment. (during impact). Finally, lack of feel for not allowing your golf club to swing with a fluid motion caused by good speed and timing. Instead what occurs as the end results of chopping, hacking, hammering, pulling or pushing, your way into trouble.
A common mistake I see with most high handicappers in trying to make adjustments in order to fix their slicing problems. They”ll close the clubface drastically at address. Figuring that this will fix their slicing problems. Having the clubface square at address is not the reason that the ball slices. As a matter of fact, starting with the face open (to the right) at address might actually give you a better chance of slicing it less. In order to get the feeling of allowing the club to release at impact with a straighter swing plane, it demands that one bring the clubface back more to the left or closer to square during the downswing.
The drills I’m about to describe to you will help to increase your feel for what is going on in your golf swing and through impact. Do these drills at your local driving range only:
- Start with a partial range of motion instead of a full golf swing. Your hands about shoulder high on the backswing and likewise on the follow through.
- Keep your hands relaxed throughout the golf swing. Keep reminding yourself to relax your hands and not squeeze the club to death. (Don’t be too loose with your grip that it causes flopping.)
- Set up your golf shot with your usual alignment and proper golf grip. ( Don’t allow the arms too initiate the downswing in an aggressive attempt to hit the ball hard.)
- Try not to change your normal swing. Make the necessary changes to grip and alignment and trust your normal swing to do the work for you.
- Let your arms fall or hang, as you move your weight toward the left foot and turn your torso to the left around towards the target. (Feel what your body is doing.)
- Resist the temptation to turn too soon and watch the ball’s flight. Don’t allow your arms to race past the body causing the heel to come before the toe (open face) of the clubhead.
- Slowly feel the weight of the club swinging from the inside of the target line, until you can see the club’s path through the bottom of your swing moving somewhat out to the right, or at least straight.
- Make sure you know the feeling of bringing it back too square. (With extreme slow motion at first try bringing the golf club back to the impact position.)
- Actually slow down and stop right behind the ball. You must see and feel the position of the clubface there.(Notice the grooves of the club aligned straight with the golf ball.)
- Now take your normal swing. Don’t try to overswing. (Be willing to swing smoothly,without trying to hit the cover off the golf ball.)
- Try using the fade, it’s the more controlled form of a slice:
- Open the club-face slightly, relative to how you are standing. (It will again be pointed at the target.)
- Adjust your feet to aim to the left of your target. The angle of your feet depends on your individual golf swing and desired results. (You will feel as if you are aiming to hit the ball to the left.)
- Opening your stance forces you to hit the ball on an out-to-in swing plane. This means making contact with the golf ball slightly above the balls equator (looking down on it).
- The out-to-in swing path is what gives it the proper spin to fade to the right.
- Test the fade shot with all of your clubs and make a mental note of the different results.
- Don’t try severe fades right away. Start with mild fades and gradually work your way into more dramatic ones.
- Practice this at the driving range. Test to see how much the ball curves relative to how open your stance is.(the more you do this, the more confident you will be in judging how to fade the golf ball out on the golf course.)
- Fading and drawing your golf shots may be tricky at first, but keep on playing around with it. You will be able to fade or draw your shots around those trees with confidence and finesse. (Those are the types of shots people ooh and aah over. )
- Invest into training aids, and use them during practice to warm-up and correct your swing faults. (Medicus #1 Swing Trainer Aids!)
- Take a golf lesson if you need to improve your swing. An occasional $30 lesson can dramatically improve your golf swing and your enjoyment of the game.
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