Monday, August 29, 2011

How To Cure A Golf Slice

By Jeremy Winters


Any person who plays golf appreciates that the game changes each time you go out on the course. Virtually any slight change with your movement or technique can either strengthen or wreak havoc on your game. You could find yourself all of a sudden chopping at the ball or perhaps causing your swing to slice the ball. This article is about what takes place when your technique changes and how you might be able to cure a golf slice.

If you have ever gone to a golf school or received personal instruction on your game, chances are you additionally received some instruction on ways to apply specific methods to alter how you swing the club. You could possibly not realize what your swing has turned into or the way it originates and follows through, so having a skilled professional watch you and then make subtle alterations in your setup or your swing can make it easier to cure a golf slice.

Without this personal assistance, it's your job to make an effort to go back to the basics and establish just what you're doing wrong and correct it. This often needs to take place quickly, like just after the first few swings at the course, during a match or outing. Therefore it is advisable to start off with the simple factors and in order to do damage control during a match or outing, the very first thing you need to attempt will be to aim to your left to compensate for your slice (for right handed people).

When you discover that you continually slice the ball to your right, use your normal stance and then shift your feet and your body, to ensure that instead of looking 12 o'clock downrange you're at this point more at 11 o'clock. Test this for a swing or two. If you are still slicing to your right, attempt a 10 o'clock stance. It's a rough method to fix a swing, but it generally works. Keep shifting to the left right up until you find that your change now places the ball exactly where it needs to go.

Yet another strategy to make an "on the fly" change is to modify the angle of your face of the club at address. The best method to line up your club with the ball will be to line up your stance at 12 o'clock to exactly where you would like the ball to go and ensure your clubface meets the ball center and perpendicular to your 12 o'clock stance. If you are slicing to your right, turn the club in your hands to ensure that your clubface has become moved to an 11 o'clock position on the ball. Test a few swings and then make additional alterations if needed to the left until eventually the ball is landing exactly where you would like it to land.

These techniques two quick and basic adjustments almost any golfer can make with their swing to be able to fix a slice. Try them and see where they take you, but don't depend on these for the long term. You are going to still need to make some foundational alterations to your swing so that you're swinging at an ideal 12 o'clock position.




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