Hello. Adam Bazalgette here In southwest Florida,
Founder of Scratch Golf Academy. I want to talk to you today about a couple of key principles
in how to fix a slice with your driver. This is really one of the most commonly asked questions,
and besetting sins, if you like, of golfers around the globe. There's a lot that can be
said, there's a lot of components, but certainly let's touch on the two main ones. That is
specifically, and we're assuming reasonable contact, swing path at the moment of contact;
we'll just say this represents parallel to the target line. Is the swing out or in? Almost
invariably with a slicer, it's too far across the body.
Then, perhaps an even bigger component,
club face angle at the moment of contact. Believe me, the modern data shows that wherever
that club face is aimed at the moment of contact, that's pretty much where the ball's going
to start out. Not entirely, but pretty close to it. So, we've got to get a change in both
of those if we're slicing. Let's talk about them in a little bit of detail one at a time.
Swing path.
How does the typical golfer get that club coming more from the inside? A lot
of people find this very difficult to do. Okay, here's what I would say to you, and
again, there's a lot that could be said, but let's give you a couple of I hope very helpful
principles. The more your hips move towards the target, assuming your head stays still,
the more side bend you create in your spine, and the more sweeping and from the inside
your club is likely to approach the ball. Most people that slice are entirely too rotary.
Upper body is too much on top of lower body.
They're really accelerating the club too violently
at the ball. They're not in this kind of a mode. If you think for a second of skipping
a rock across water where you've got to be shallow, you see what your body would look
like. It wouldn't look like that, so I'm going to suggest at times you actually setup, preset
your hips to the left, and just make a little baby swing, and feel what the swing path would
be like. That's an idea on swing path.
Now, let's talk about club face, because that is
critical if you don't get the club face right. We do not want to come in and have a big roll
of the wrist. I promise you you won't be consistent or good if you do that. In many cases when
that happens, the handle slows down and the club actually goes more to the left. What
we want to feel, and I'll approach the camera here, is the back of this lead hand snaps
more towards the ground. So, the release doesn't so much slow the handle down and do that,
as it is turn the face towards the ground that way. Ideally, you'd feel that with a
real snap, and work that club face down. Let's hit one little shot here. Put the ball on
a tee, and I'm going to do a little partial shot.
I'll take my setup, preset my hips forward.
You can see how this has affected my path, and I'm going to snap the face down as I do
this. Now, you could probably see there, that ball had a pretty good size hook. Started
to the right and hooking, so hope those two general ideas will get you started on the
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