 Golf Tips To Cure My SliceI spent A LOT of time looking for golf tips to cure the slice that I had developed over the last few years. I was so sick of looking for my balls in the weeds, or quietly cringing while I listened for the ball to bounce off 6 or 7 parts of a house before coming to rest in their yard! The bottom line is a few good tips to cure the slice helped me in the long run. The first step was for me to understand what the "slicer's" golf grip and "slicer's" swing path look like and why they occur. Then, using this knowledge and a swing training aid helped me completely get rid of my slice. Left Hand Neutral Grip-A "neutral" left hand grip (a grip that is not "strong" nor "weak") should have you looking at about 2 to 2 and 1/2 knuckles on the back of your left hand. Right Hand Neutral Grip-A "neutral" right hand should have the crease between your thumb and forefinger pointing towards your right shoulder. A WEAK grip is when your hands (or maybe only one of your hands...it only takes one of them to be off!) are rotated to the left too much when you grip the club. So my grip is weak...so what? Bringing your grip back to neutral when you grip the club is one of the basic tips to Fixing the swing path. Why? Because this "nuetral" grip is most likely where your hands will be at the exact time of impact! So if your hands naturally come to this neutral position at impact, but you have held the club with a weak grip from the beginning, then the club will be facing to the right at impact, right? Therefore, we start hitting the ball right, and we try to compensate by swinging to the left, and this makes a SLICE. A weak grip alone will not cause a slice. It will however create a shot that goes high, weak, and to the right. Fixing the swing path is extremely important to stop the slice AND create more power. When we hit these weak, high and right shots, we slicers will tend to swing harder and to the left, creating a left to right spin...and there we have our "power-slice"! I recommend using a swing trainer or getting some at-home instruction from the internet. In person lessons can get very expensive. Other articles you might like; |
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