Slice Golf Shot Drill 2 Basket outside the line (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles
Slice Golf Shot Drill 2 Basket outside the line (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles

So common components that go into a slice shot, we're generally not looking at the swing path and the face angle, and if there's difference between swing path and face angle, then spin would be created on the ball.

A golfer will always have some form of backspin, but if that backspin isn’t true and it's a tilted backspin, we sometimes refer to that as sidespin. Golfers often find it easier to determine what a golf ball looks like when we classify it as sidespin. But technically, it's actually titled backspin. But if your club path is going in one direction and your face is not true to that, the ball will have some form of spin.

And a slice shot from the down the line view is generally caused by a club moving from right to left across the golfer's body from an out-to-in motion so it's away from my body towards my body here, traveling left of the target line and the club face that is more open than that line. So if I'm traveling left and the club face is pointing more to the right, I will impart some form of tilted backspin, some people refer to it as sidespin. If the club face has quite a long way difference to the swing path, then the ball is going to start slicing from left to right, either a pull slice, straight slice, or a push slice of some form.

So one of the best way that you can stop slicing the golf ball is change the swing path. Make the swing path be a lot more from in to out. Almost feel like you're hitting more right and for a lot of golfers, that feels awkward that you're hitting right and you don't want the ball to go to the right. But actually you're hitting right to stop it going right, if that makes sense. It feels a bit counterintuitive.

So here, we've set the golf ball up and we've actually put a basket just outside the line. And the best way for you to do this is probably 18 inches to 2 feet back behind the ball and if I take the club straight back in line with the ball, I'm just going to touch the edge of the basket there. That gives me enough space to swing the golf club back without clipping the basket.

But it gives me no more room to come over the top. If I come over the top and outside the line, hit the basket on the way to the ball effectively it blocks my outside swing path. It only leaves me with a swing path that would be straighter at the ball or even more from the inside, more hitting out to the right.

Now if you could practice this on the driving range so you'd come to the range, you'd pick a spot for the golf ball. It's important the ball would stay in the same spot to keep the relative position of the basket correct. So we'd pick a spot here which is just an inch from the tee peg hole. I drill my line back to the basket 2 feet behind the ball, just in line with the club face.

I then would practice hitting 10 or 15 shots from this position, making sure the ball starts to the right-hand side by swinging out to the right with my club and certainly avoiding hitting the basket. If you can get the club on the right path, miss the basket, hit the ball right, that's the first part of correcting your slice.

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So common components that go into a slice shot, we're generally not looking at the swing path and the face angle, and if there's difference between swing path and face angle, then spin would be created on the ball.

A golfer will always have some form of backspin, but if that backspin isn’t true and it's a tilted backspin, we sometimes refer to that as sidespin. Golfers often find it easier to determine what a golf ball looks like when we classify it as sidespin. But technically, it's actually titled backspin. But if your club path is going in one direction and your face is not true to that, the ball will have some form of spin.

And a slice shot from the down the line view is generally caused by a club moving from right to left across the golfer's body from an out-to-in motion so it's away from my body towards my body here, traveling left of the target line and the club face that is more open than that line. So if I'm traveling left and the club face is pointing more to the right, I will impart some form of tilted backspin, some people refer to it as sidespin. If the club face has quite a long way difference to the swing path, then the ball is going to start slicing from left to right, either a pull slice, straight slice, or a push slice of some form.

So one of the best way that you can stop slicing the golf ball is change the swing path. Make the swing path be a lot more from in to out. Almost feel like you're hitting more right and for a lot of golfers, that feels awkward that you're hitting right and you don't want the ball to go to the right. But actually you're hitting right to stop it going right, if that makes sense. It feels a bit counterintuitive.

So here, we've set the golf ball up and we've actually put a basket just outside the line. And the best way for you to do this is probably 18 inches to 2 feet back behind the ball and if I take the club straight back in line with the ball, I'm just going to touch the edge of the basket there. That gives me enough space to swing the golf club back without clipping the basket.

But it gives me no more room to come over the top. If I come over the top and outside the line, hit the basket on the way to the ball effectively it blocks my outside swing path. It only leaves me with a swing path that would be straighter at the ball or even more from the inside, more hitting out to the right.

Now if you could practice this on the driving range so you'd come to the range, you'd pick a spot for the golf ball. It's important the ball would stay in the same spot to keep the relative position of the basket correct. So we'd pick a spot here which is just an inch from the tee peg hole. I drill my line back to the basket 2 feet behind the ball, just in line with the club face.

I then would practice hitting 10 or 15 shots from this position, making sure the ball starts to the right-hand side by swinging out to the right with my club and certainly avoiding hitting the basket. If you can get the club on the right path, miss the basket, hit the ball right, that's the first part of correcting your slice.