Hello. I'm Brian Fitzgerald The Golf Doctor. And today I'm going to talk about why most
left handers slice the golf ball. Stay tuned. [MUSIC] So why do most left handed golfers seem to
slice the ball. Well. I've got a theory. Particularly in Australia where we play a
lot of cricket. And I am a right handed person. I am very right handed. Yet when I play cricket. I play cricket left handed. Now you are batting correctly when you play
cricket and you are batting left handed and if you are batting correctly you are going
to have your right hand in control. So your right hand is the strong one. So when I played cricket and I didn't play
cricket at a very high level it was mostly school boy cricket. I was really weak hitting it over to the right
or the on side.
I was pretty strong on the off side. And that's because my right hand was always
dominating. So when we equate that to golf. If you are a left handed golfer but your dominant
hand is your right hand. Your right hand is basically going to be pulling
that club down. And as soon as I start pulling that club down
you can see that the clubface is pointing out to the left. Which is open. Which is going to impart spin that goes right
to left. Which is a slice. So when I started playing golf on the tour. I quickly realised that in any given year
I would have to hit at least 6 shots a year where my ball was up against a tree.
So what I used to practice every single week
was trying to hit some shots upside down with my club. So at first I thought this was pretty easy. I am a left handed cricketer. But it was actually hard because my right
hand still wanted to do that. So eventually I got to the point where I could
hit it decently. I started hitting some wedges and progressed
up. So I will try and hit my right handed 7 iron. The hardest thing here is to not let my right
hand work that way. I actually feel like I am hitting a back hand
at table tennis or tennis and I am getting my right hand to do that. That will help square the club up. So we will see how I go. So there is a shot that just started slightly
left and I hit it with a little draw. And that's gone up there about 120m. It wasn't a big swing. I wasn't trying to hit it hard. But I could do that pretty consistently. But most importantly, the ball spun left to
right. Which was a little draw.
So when I started coaching for a living. I also realised that about 30% of my clients
were going to be left handed. So I needed to try and demonstrate when I
became a coach. So I started practising each week left handed. So the things that you can do away from the
course that's going to help you if you are in this situation is start brushing your teeth
left handed. If you walk the dog. Hold the lead in your left hand as you walk
the dog. Start throwing the ball left handed. Drink cups of tea, coffee, wine, whatever
it is left handed. Grab a sandwich from the plate left handed. It's not really to make your left hand stronger.
It's to improve the link between the brain
and your left hand. Because if you are a right dominant person
the link between the your brain and your right hand is very strong and the signal between
the left and the brain isn't as strong. So if you can do those things away from the
golf course. it will make it a lot easier when you get
to the course. And as I said if you are right dominant. just feel like you are throwing the frisbee
right handed.
Or hitting a back hand. All of those things help. So I will try and hit one with a left handed
club now. And a nice little soft draw. That ball has gone around 120 metres or so. I don't hit it as far left handed as I do
right handed because my left hand isn't as strong. But I can still hit it with a good shape. So there is something you can do if you are
a right dominant person playing left handed. You can stop slicing the ball. By following those few simple drills.
So do things left handed as much as you can. Even if you stop at a set of traffic lights
in the car. While the lights are red. Get your imaginary table tennis bat out and
hit some forehands with your left hand, swap over and hit some imaginary back hands and
we put it together and we have got a golf swing. So that should stop improve your slice. Thank you for letting me help you with your
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