There are golf drivers designed to help improve sliced golf shots. These drivers incorporate various technologies and features to assist golfers who struggle with a slice. Here are some aspects to consider when looking for a driver to help with your slice:
- Adjustable Weighting: Some drivers allow you to adjust the weight distribution of the clubhead. By moving weights to certain positions, you can influence the club's flight path and reduce the tendency to slice.
- Draw Bias: Drivers with a draw bias are designed to promote a right-to-left ball flight (for right-handed golfers), which can counteract a slice. These drivers often have weight positioned toward the heel of the clubhead.
- Offset Design: An offset driver has the clubface slightly set back from the hosel. This design can help close the clubface at impact, reducing the chance of an open face causing a slice.
- Higher Loft: A driver with higher loft can help reduce side spin and encourage a straighter ball flight. Many slicers benefit from using a driver with slightly higher loft than standard.
- Shaft Flex and Kick Point: The shaft's flex and kick point can influence the club's behavior at impact. A shaft that's more forgiving and promotes a mid-high launch can be helpful for reducing slices.
- Anti-Slice Technology: Some manufacturers have developed drivers with proprietary technology specifically designed to minimize slices. These features often include a combination of weighting, face angle, and shaft characteristics.
- Custom Fitting: Working with a professional club fitter can help identify the right driver specifications for your swing. They can analyze your swing and ball flight tendencies to recommend the best driver options to reduce your slice.
Remember that while equipment can play a role in minimizing a slice, addressing the root causes of your slice through lessons and practice is equally important. If you're struggling with a consistent slice, consider working with a golf instructor to identify and correct the swing mechanics that contribute to the issue.
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there are a number of golf drivers that can help improve your sliced golf shots. These drivers typically have features that are designed to help you square the clubface at impact, such as:
- Offset: Offset refers to the position of the clubface relative to the hosel. A driver with offset has the clubface positioned slightly behind the hosel, which helps to close the clubface at impact.
- Draw bias: Draw bias refers to the design of the driver that is intended to make the ball curve slightly to the left for a right-handed golfer. This is typically achieved by positioning the weight of the driver more towards the heel, which helps to close the clubface at impact.
- Adjustable hosel: An adjustable hosel allows you to change the loft and lie of the driver, which can help you to find the right settings for your swing. This can be helpful if you are struggling with a slice, as you can adjust the settings to help you square the clubface at impact.
In addition to choosing the right driver, there are other things you can do to improve your sliced golf shots. These include:
- Get lessons from a qualified golf instructor. A good instructor can help you identify the cause of your slice and develop a swing that will help you hit the ball straighter.
- Practice regularly. The more you practice, the better you will become at hitting the ball straight.
- Use the right ball. Some balls are designed to help golfers who slice the ball. Experiment with different balls to find one that works best for you.
By following these tips, you can improve your sliced golf shots and hit the ball straighter more consistently.
The sliced golf shot is possibly the most frustrating shot in golf and it’s so common, nearly every golfer that you know will experience some version of a sliced golf shot at some point in their career. So sliced golf shot for the right handed golfer is a ball that moves left to right down the fairway and finishes in treble to the right.
And more commonly a slice would actually start left of target slice away to the right hand side into the rough or in to the trees. Now we, we can understand why the ball slices and that’s because the path of the club and the face of the golf club are not matched up, they are not lined up together. And quite often the clubface will be aiming to the right of the swing path. So the swing path if this was down the line the swing path would be heading to the left, the clubface would be more right than the swing path and the ball would move left to right with spin and it would curve away down the fairway.
Now there’s two ways you could correct this you could either work harder on improving your technique and that’s something I would encourage you to do I’m a little bit of a purist I like to see people improve their technique to be able to hit the ball better.
But if you play golf for fun, and you play golf for enjoyment and you haven’t gotten heaps and heaps of time to invest in changing your swing and improving your technique, there’s maybe a bit of a quick fix, a little bit of a cheat that you could do and you could invest in some technology, buy a driver that improves your slice.
Now if we can substantiate that claim that driver would work out of the shops on its own, so here is a driver that might explain how these technologies within the golf are put together to help improve your slice.
So this is a tailor made SLDR driver and I’ve picked this driver purely because it’s the easiest to try and explain what’s happening down on the bottom here. So if I can just bring this towards the camera you can see at the bottom here a little blue weight, now I can move that around I’ve just loosen the weight, so it moves from one side to another across the driver face.
Now the point of the SLDR driver is it has a fade side and has a draw side, the fade side being the toe and the draw side being the heel. So if you setup to the golf ball and you were to set that weight into the toe of the golf club tight on the weight upon the knee, so it doesn’t rattle around. That puts more weight in the toe slows the toe down opens the face and encourages more of a slice, so we definitely don’t want to do that.
If we drag the weight back into the heel of the golf club, tighten the weight it took there that slows the heel down the toe accelerates passes the heel and closes the clubface. Now if we suggested that the path was more leftwards for the right handed golfer path more left face more right, now we have changed the weighting to help the clubface aim more left, now we have got less difference between path and face and the ball will have less curvature in flight.
Now I’m not advocating that the SLDR from tailor made is the only driver to do this, because lots of other drivers would position weight more favorably into the heel, they kind of heel bias the weight to the driver. I’ve picked this one purely because it’s very easy to see and it’s very easy to demonstrate to you guys how that weight could move around. So this is an adjustable driver, some drivers would have the weight set in the heel and it just stays there.
And that’s one of the sort of the technologies that a manufacturer could use to help improve the slice. Other things you should look for is don’t get too stiff a shaft, if the shaft is too stiff that’s renowned for causing a bit more slice on the ball. Don’t get too little loft, if there’s not enough loft on the back of the driver face there is not enough back spin on the golf ball and back spin will inherently try and fly the ball a little bit straighter, so plenty of loft a nice flexible shaft and a little bit of draw bias built into the head are all things that could help you.
The other thing we could look at as well is an offset driver. An offset driver is purely a driver where the face is set back slightly from the club head and that helps encourage more height more draw bias and less of the slice. So if you are playing golf for fun and you are enjoying it all apart from that nasty little slice shot, have a look at changing the driver, getting custom fit for the right technology and see if that can improve your slice.