What Causes a Golf Pull Slice Shot? (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles
What Causes a Golf Pull Slice Shot? (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles

What causes a pull slice from the tee with your golf shots? Now, quite often a pull slice is just referred to as a slice by most golfers. But by definition, a pull slice is a ball that sets off to the left of the intended target line, cuts across the intended target line and finishes right of the intended target for the right handed golfer. So, if you’re standing behind your playing partner, watching him tee off and the ball sets off down the left side, [Inaudible] [0:00:38] going to be a good shot but – and then it curves too far, finishes away to the right hand side. That’s a pull slice. And the reason that happens is because when he hits the golf ball, the clubface is aiming slightly left of center.

The clubface is responsible for the majority of the balls initial direction. So, if the clubface is aiming let’s say 3 degrees left, this ball will start down the left hand side of the target. But then it’s slicing. So, if the swing path is more left than the 3 degrees, that ball will have some counter clockwise spins – sorry, some clockwise spin, that ball will curve from left to right in the air and that ball will finish down the right hand side of the target line. So, pull slice is a leftward facing club with a really aggressively leftward facing swing path, and that’s going to really spin the ball from a pull slicing position down the left curving back to the right. Quite often caused by a strong grip and very often caused by a club that gets thrown over the top so the club gets outside the line from the top, comes across and very violently hits across the back of the ball. Majority of golfers that pull slice are actually trying to stop pull slicing it, but probably working on the wrong things because the more the ball curves out to the right hand side, the more they’re swinging left to try and stop it going right. And of course if it doesn’t work, the ball goes more to the right. So, it’s important to understand what causes the pull slice then a golfer can go ahead and start trying to improve that bad shot. 2014-05-08

What causes a pull slice from the tee with your golf shots? Now, quite often a pull slice is just referred to as a slice by most golfers. But by definition, a pull slice is a ball that sets off to the left of the intended target line, cuts across the intended target line and finishes right of the intended target for the right handed golfer. So, if you’re standing behind your playing partner, watching him tee off and the ball sets off down the left side, [Inaudible] [0:00:38] going to be a good shot but – and then it curves too far, finishes away to the right hand side. That’s a pull slice. And the reason that happens is because when he hits the golf ball, the clubface is aiming slightly left of center.

The clubface is responsible for the majority of the balls initial direction. So, if the clubface is aiming let’s say 3 degrees left, this ball will start down the left hand side of the target. But then it’s slicing. So, if the swing path is more left than the 3 degrees, that ball will have some counter clockwise spins – sorry, some clockwise spin, that ball will curve from left to right in the air and that ball will finish down the right hand side of the target line. So, pull slice is a leftward facing club with a really aggressively leftward facing swing path, and that’s going to really spin the ball from a pull slicing position down the left curving back to the right. Quite often caused by a strong grip and very often caused by a club that gets thrown over the top so the club gets outside the line from the top, comes across and very violently hits across the back of the ball. Majority of golfers that pull slice are actually trying to stop pull slicing it, but probably working on the wrong things because the more the ball curves out to the right hand side, the more they’re swinging left to try and stop it going right. And of course if it doesn’t work, the ball goes more to the right. So, it’s important to understand what causes the pull slice then a golfer can go ahead and start trying to improve that bad shot.