An Easy Way To Stop Slicing And Pushing Your Shots – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
An Easy Way To Stop Slicing And Pushing Your Shots – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer understand how frustrating it can be to see golf balls continually slicing off line, and therefore resulting in a loss of distance and an increase in scores. During this video, Matt and Pete will explain the benefits of using a split handed grip drill to aid extra rotation of the forearms and ultimately the golf club face, combined with making baseball swings out on the golf course. By following these tips you should see an improvement in the direction of your golf shot and the reduction in frustration from the dreaded slice.

Now there Matthew I have a quiz question for you, ready. Two shots one is a slice start to the left curves back to the right for the right golfer and one is a push goes straight to the right hand side, yes. What factor is shared between those two shots what is common? Well coming down to this thing here the club face and that is going to be open relative to our ball to target line. So as we see here we'd have the face now looking out to the right of our intended target. So if we have the club face to the right for a left or right curving one and one that goes straight down the right by there and we all need to understand how we can close that club face. If we're pushing or slicing the golf closing the face would have the club face aiming a little bit more than the left side.

So give me a couple of really good exercises or drills that will help control the club. OK so 1st they're going to start with a split handed grip so obviously we know when we've got our normal grip whether we've got interlock, overlap grip or even the baseball grip in some cases. The hands of very close together that there are you know almost one unit what we're going to do now is actually keep the left hand at the top of the grip and move the right hand down pretty much to the bottom of the rubber here both things yeah just got a couple of those on the trigger finger down there and we can see actual gaps there between the the both hands. Now as you said what we tend to feel is something a bit like a hockey shot and cut it as you know if you see that the old slap shot may be here coming through and that face is looking dead right at target. Exactly so what we're going to try and do here in this drill with split hand is actually trying to get them to cross over a little bit more so we'd feel here they were swinging and feeling now I can get my right forearm to sit on top of my left forearm there as opposed to like say that one there where we can see the left one still on top of the right.

There is my very basic physics remember things correctly from my time at school because these traveling different distances the right hands traveling further than the left and yet happening there in the same time the right hands traveling quicker, yes. So you are almost accelerating that right hand. Exactly I think when I get back to my normal grip accelerating my right hand through is going to help me square the face and it's just quickening up the bottom hand to release the club face. I'm actually enjoying it and at just a couple of go's you feel something different you'll feel feel excessive that motion. I definitely feel even as we are into the slices of the golf ball we will always see a right hand that's generally working underneath as you say that right hand getting quicker you feel it flip over a little bit more though as you do that drill. OK the 2nd drill going to do a baseball drill yes this is where our American viewers can laugh at your baseball technique. Sure it's not going to be things that I'm sure quite as good as my baseball, but the baseball swing. Why would we use that baseball swing? It is working on a plane it's working around our body and as we're doing it it's just carrying on a one plane and we're actually seeing that it's releasing a bit like the split handrail we start to see that this club you getting some speed and it's wrapping through there, and as I'm carrying on and letting that face rotate I'm releasing it catapulting the club head through and letting that face square up we won't see baseball player. That was quite painful. So you have that right hand or right elbow comes from below and whips over and that's right it's a mini golf swing isn't it.

Yes it's a movement in an incline plane and get that releasing over. So that the baseball drill is quite good warming up technique you think. Definitely is one of the one of my favorite drills to give. You know if I've got a slice has a you know when I'm with a student so we would see generally as we talked about the play now with the baseball on the face releasing this face is turning over to the arc it's here we don't want to be swinging a golf club like this even if it needs high and we're feeling it more even now I can actually hear that little bit of a swoosh and I know that the face is starting to turn over here as I'm doing this now. As opposed to if I held it no sound nothing yeah no speed nothing I'm not getting any face rotation. Which is obviously going to hinder the slice and the push. Very interesting those slice and push shots that we talked about Matt answered the question correctly right at the very start of the club face is going to point to our rights for both those shots we want to get a little base aiming a little bit more left effectively closing the club face in relation to the swing we have. If we can close a club face is like saying that using either a split handed drill 2 fingers on the shaft of the golf club and a few swings you'll feel like right how much bottom hand accelerating, or the baseball swing up at the baseball height and releasing that right and over the top for the right handed golfer but those movements are closing the club face more. You should reduce your body your slice shots and hopefully in a more straight or even with a touch of a draw flight that would be nice with those 2 drills it would be likely to draw everything using those exercises to improve your slice and your pushing.

2018-12-21

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer understand how frustrating it can be to see golf balls continually slicing off line, and therefore resulting in a loss of distance and an increase in scores. During this video, Matt and Pete will explain the benefits of using a split handed grip drill to aid extra rotation of the forearms and ultimately the golf club face, combined with making baseball swings out on the golf course. By following these tips you should see an improvement in the direction of your golf shot and the reduction in frustration from the dreaded slice.

Now there Matthew I have a quiz question for you, ready. Two shots one is a slice start to the left curves back to the right for the right golfer and one is a push goes straight to the right hand side, yes. What factor is shared between those two shots what is common? Well coming down to this thing here the club face and that is going to be open relative to our ball to target line. So as we see here we'd have the face now looking out to the right of our intended target. So if we have the club face to the right for a left or right curving one and one that goes straight down the right by there and we all need to understand how we can close that club face. If we're pushing or slicing the golf closing the face would have the club face aiming a little bit more than the left side.

So give me a couple of really good exercises or drills that will help control the club. OK so 1st they're going to start with a split handed grip so obviously we know when we've got our normal grip whether we've got interlock, overlap grip or even the baseball grip in some cases. The hands of very close together that there are you know almost one unit what we're going to do now is actually keep the left hand at the top of the grip and move the right hand down pretty much to the bottom of the rubber here both things yeah just got a couple of those on the trigger finger down there and we can see actual gaps there between the the both hands. Now as you said what we tend to feel is something a bit like a hockey shot and cut it as you know if you see that the old slap shot may be here coming through and that face is looking dead right at target. Exactly so what we're going to try and do here in this drill with split hand is actually trying to get them to cross over a little bit more so we'd feel here they were swinging and feeling now I can get my right forearm to sit on top of my left forearm there as opposed to like say that one there where we can see the left one still on top of the right.

There is my very basic physics remember things correctly from my time at school because these traveling different distances the right hands traveling further than the left and yet happening there in the same time the right hands traveling quicker, yes. So you are almost accelerating that right hand. Exactly I think when I get back to my normal grip accelerating my right hand through is going to help me square the face and it's just quickening up the bottom hand to release the club face. I'm actually enjoying it and at just a couple of go's you feel something different you'll feel feel excessive that motion. I definitely feel even as we are into the slices of the golf ball we will always see a right hand that's generally working underneath as you say that right hand getting quicker you feel it flip over a little bit more though as you do that drill. OK the 2nd drill going to do a baseball drill yes this is where our American viewers can laugh at your baseball technique. Sure it's not going to be things that I'm sure quite as good as my baseball, but the baseball swing. Why would we use that baseball swing? It is working on a plane it's working around our body and as we're doing it it's just carrying on a one plane and we're actually seeing that it's releasing a bit like the split handrail we start to see that this club you getting some speed and it's wrapping through there, and as I'm carrying on and letting that face rotate I'm releasing it catapulting the club head through and letting that face square up we won't see baseball player. That was quite painful. So you have that right hand or right elbow comes from below and whips over and that's right it's a mini golf swing isn't it.

Yes it's a movement in an incline plane and get that releasing over. So that the baseball drill is quite good warming up technique you think. Definitely is one of the one of my favorite drills to give. You know if I've got a slice has a you know when I'm with a student so we would see generally as we talked about the play now with the baseball on the face releasing this face is turning over to the arc it's here we don't want to be swinging a golf club like this even if it needs high and we're feeling it more even now I can actually hear that little bit of a swoosh and I know that the face is starting to turn over here as I'm doing this now. As opposed to if I held it no sound nothing yeah no speed nothing I'm not getting any face rotation. Which is obviously going to hinder the slice and the push. Very interesting those slice and push shots that we talked about Matt answered the question correctly right at the very start of the club face is going to point to our rights for both those shots we want to get a little base aiming a little bit more left effectively closing the club face in relation to the swing we have. If we can close a club face is like saying that using either a split handed drill 2 fingers on the shaft of the golf club and a few swings you'll feel like right how much bottom hand accelerating, or the baseball swing up at the baseball height and releasing that right and over the top for the right handed golfer but those movements are closing the club face more. You should reduce your body your slice shots and hopefully in a more straight or even with a touch of a draw flight that would be nice with those 2 drills it would be likely to draw everything using those exercises to improve your slice and your pushing.