Are you struggling with an out of control slice and looking for a way to fix it?
This is Sean McTernan and your watching another episode of My Golf Tutor, the number one place
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Welcome back, todays question comes in from Jay and Jay wrote, hey Sean I'm struggling
a lot with a slice.
Typically, with my driver starts down the middle of the fairway then slices into the
trees on the right hand side.
I also struggle with the same issue with my irons.
Ideally I would love to hit the ball straighter, do you have any ways to correct this?
Jay thanks very much for your question, before we get into techniques and ways for you to
reduce a slice.
The first thing I want you to focus on is actually where you are striking the ball on
the face.
If you get a dry erase marker or Dr Scholes foot spray and spray the face and hit some
shots.
A major contributing factor I see with a lot of my students that come to me is that they
are striking the ball out of the heal.
This is a major contributing factor to why they slice the ball so much.
After you have gone and hit some shots to establish where you are hitting the ball.
If you do happen to be catching it out of the middle and you are still struggling with
that slice you have been talking about.
Then this next segment is going to be for you.
So, I am going to use these alignment rods to make my point.
Based on a center strike, we know that when the face and the path align up there will
be no curve on the ball.
The greater the difference between our face and our path, the more curvature we will see.
So, if you could imagine if I shade this area in here the more and more my path goes this
way in relation to the face the more the ball is going to curve.
So what we have to try and do to help you take some of this slice off the ball is we
need to get your path closer to the face.
I have a drill that will help you achieve this.
So put down your alignment rod and I like to use a head cover.
What this drill is going to do is going to force you to swing the path of the club what
feels initially out to right field for you because like I said we need to get our face
and path aligned at impact.
So, simply put a head cover down and just start making swings by swinging outside of
this.
I'm going to imagine you are swing so far to the left you are going to actually catch
this head cover every time.
The next time you go to the range give this a go and see what happens.
Initially, what I think you are going to find is that when you do start doing this you are
going to blast it a long way right because you are so use to the feeling of the relation
ship of the face and path.
Your so use to this that when you change your path your face is going to remain in the same
position.
If you start hitting it right don't worry about it eventually you are going to learn
to time it and actually get that face to align up better at impact.
The next time you go to the range give that a go and it going to definitely help you.
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