Slice Golf Shot Drill 8 Hook chips for rotation (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles
Slice Golf Shot Drill 8 Hook chips for rotation (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles

I think here it’s really important to emphasize the fact that a drill is just that. It’s not actually the perfect swing. It’s not exactly the thing you would do normally. And particularly relating to this exercise – because I’m going to get you to – I’m going to encourage you to get yourself turning your hands over on a chip shots. Now normally we wouldn’t encourage that. Normally we would play chip shots without a great deal of hand action. But just to encourage the rotation which would be associated with improving a slice shot, I’d like you to use your hands a lot. I’d like you to really get the hands flicking over very quickly through the bottom half of the swing and feel how your hands have turned this stage because that incorporated into your full swing would give you a bit more of a draw shot or a straight shot and less of a slice shot.

But it’s important we do it in slow motion first so we’re going to hook some chip shots. A chip shot, short shot, doesn’t need to go that high. We’re going to try and get it turning from right to left in the air for the right-handed golfer. We take our little set-up, a little bit of a back swing with some hand action and a follow-through with loads of hand action and feel how the right hand can just come straight over the top of the left, shooting that club phase down, so it’s a very big rotation through here. Not the sort of thing you would normally see for a chip shot. And the chip shot here goes much lower than normal, much further left than normal and it runs out when it releases.

If I look down to the target line here you would see an action coming through instead of chipping the ball here with the blade and the left hand still facing the sky, we’re going to hit chip shots where the badge and the blade start to point down to the floor so we’re whipping the hands over far earlier. It’s a very aggressive, very exaggerated way of playing this particular type of shot but it’s a good drill to stop you slicing the golf ball. So when you’re out on the practice ground next time, just have five or 10 go’s, just a very fast rotation of your hands. If then, when you take that back up to your normal full swing, you’re still slicing the ball or cutting the ball down the right-hand side. Go back to the exaggerated drill of rotating your hands and your chip shots. Feel how if you can control your rotation, you can control where the gold ball goes.

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I think here it’s really important to emphasize the fact that a drill is just that. It’s not actually the perfect swing. It’s not exactly the thing you would do normally. And particularly relating to this exercise – because I’m going to get you to – I’m going to encourage you to get yourself turning your hands over on a chip shots. Now normally we wouldn’t encourage that. Normally we would play chip shots without a great deal of hand action. But just to encourage the rotation which would be associated with improving a slice shot, I’d like you to use your hands a lot. I’d like you to really get the hands flicking over very quickly through the bottom half of the swing and feel how your hands have turned this stage because that incorporated into your full swing would give you a bit more of a draw shot or a straight shot and less of a slice shot.

But it’s important we do it in slow motion first so we’re going to hook some chip shots. A chip shot, short shot, doesn’t need to go that high. We’re going to try and get it turning from right to left in the air for the right-handed golfer. We take our little set-up, a little bit of a back swing with some hand action and a follow-through with loads of hand action and feel how the right hand can just come straight over the top of the left, shooting that club phase down, so it’s a very big rotation through here. Not the sort of thing you would normally see for a chip shot. And the chip shot here goes much lower than normal, much further left than normal and it runs out when it releases.

If I look down to the target line here you would see an action coming through instead of chipping the ball here with the blade and the left hand still facing the sky, we’re going to hit chip shots where the badge and the blade start to point down to the floor so we’re whipping the hands over far earlier. It’s a very aggressive, very exaggerated way of playing this particular type of shot but it’s a good drill to stop you slicing the golf ball. So when you’re out on the practice ground next time, just have five or 10 go’s, just a very fast rotation of your hands. If then, when you take that back up to your normal full swing, you’re still slicing the ball or cutting the ball down the right-hand side. Go back to the exaggerated drill of rotating your hands and your chip shots. Feel how if you can control your rotation, you can control where the gold ball goes.