Fix your golf slice permanently

There are many tips, articles and books written to help players 
fix their golf slice. They are often based around a simple tip 
that is hoping to give a short-term boost in technique and 
temporarily stop that most destructive left-to-right golf shot. 
However, the best thing that a golfer should do is take a long 
term look at their game and aim to build a solid golf swing 
which will mean that slicing is a thing of the past. To do this 
a player must completely grasp the reasons why a golf slice 
occurs.

The two reasons are clubface angle, and swingpath.

Firstly, let's take clubface angle - hard to explain in an 
article, so lets start by imaging that it is in the perfect 
position when it strikes the ball - the clubface position would 
be what's known as "square". That means the face of the club 
would be pointing exactly at the intended target at the moment 
the ball is struck. If however, the clubface pointed slightly 
to the left, it would be described as "closed", and if it 
pointed slightly to the right at the moment it contacts the ball 
it would be described as "open" (the position that is partly 
responsible for a golf slice). Keeping this in mind lets look 
at swingpath.

With swingpath lets first of all look at the perfect scenario - 
the ideal swingpath should be in-to-in. What this means is that 
the club should be drawn back by the golfer on the 
ball-to-target line, and as the club goes further away from the 
ball it starts to travel "inside" this line as the clubhead goes 
up and behind the golfers back. As the clubhead comes down this 
inside path it momentarily, as it makes contact with the ball is 
travelling on the ball to target line before it starts to come 
inside that line again as the golfer makes their follow through. 
If the clubhead comes from the inside as it should but then 
after contacting the ball carries on across and "outside" the 
ball to target line on the follow through, this is known as an 
in-to-out swingpath. Alternatively, if the clubhead comes down 
outside the ball to target line and the follow though is inside, 
then this is an out-to-in swingpath.

Now, bearing these two factors of clubface alignment and 
swingpath in mind a golfer can analyze his technique by looking 
at the shape of his golf shots. The swingpath decides the 
initial flight direction of the ball, and the clubface affects 
how it curves in the air. So, if the ball takes off straight at 
the target and flies in a straight line then this is the result 
of an in-to-in swingpath and a square clubface.

However, if the ball starts off straight but then curves to the 
left a golfer can ascertain that his swingpath was ok but his 
clubface was closed - hence the hook. Alternatively, if the 
ball started off left and then curved even further left then it 
shows that the swingpath was out-to-in and the clubface was 
closed - causing a pull hook.

Using this type of analysis it becomes easier to fix your golf 
slice. If the ball starts off straight and then goes to the 
right a golfer knows that his swingpath was ok but that his 
clubface was open at impact. If the ball started off right and 
went further right then it would mean an in-to-out swingpath and 
an open clubface. and if it started of left then curved to the 
right it would mean an out-to-in swingpath and an open clubface.

Learning exactly what is going on in your golf swing, by 
studying the flight of the golf ball, is a very important step 
in fixing your golf slice.

See our page -  Fix Golf Slice