Inside To Outside Swing Path Is The Path To Better Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Inside To Outside Swing Path Is The Path To Better Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

Now if you’ve been fighting a slice in your game, we’ve established that a lot of the issue with the slice could be caused by the swing path. And the swing path is generally a little bit too much outside the line and too much over the top. So to improve on your slicing, correct your slice. We’re going to want to try and feel the opposite swing path which is an inside swing path. But we have to put a caveat on this and say, you can get too much on the inside, that can be a problem being too far on the inside. But the swing path line straight back and straight through, we‘re going to try and be slightly inside that line, and if we’re coming at it from the inside we’re going to actually travel to the outside. So a swing path that’s between zero and maybe plus five on a Trackman, or FlightScope, something of that nature is where you want to be aiming. I like to see around about three degrees attacking the golf ball from the inside, that would be lovely. So we’re setting up to the golf ball nicely, we’re taking the club nicely back on the right line, getting the club to the top.

Now from a lot of golfer’s perspective, this look quite good, and then they make the mistake, flat footed with the lower half, not moving or turning the hips and the upper body attacks. And we come over, and we see a lot of golfers chopping and then coming flat on the follow through as they are out to in motion kicks in. Now from the top, if we make a nice shifting rotational motion with the hips, that’s going to allow the club more chance, more room to fall back onto the inside line or on the downswing line, that’s going to be quite straight towards the golf ball. Now from the top you just slide your hips. There's a chance the club falls too flat, but if we can slide and rotate at the same time, we should feel the club comes back down on a nice line, attacks the golf ball just slightly from the inside angle then it can be in to out in a nice rotating draw or straight shot. What we definitely want to avoid is standing flat footed and hitting with the shoulders which will definitely cause you to come over at the top and slice the ball. The other area I see is a bit of a mistake from people with the same fault is they get it quick, they lose the tempo. They get to the top and they snatch on it and they come over the top and slice the golf ball. So try and have a nice smooth tempo, a one, two and a three tempo to allow the club to come back down on the right line. So we’re definitely looking to avoid this flat footed over the top quick slice. And you see my body weight here is leaning right back, the club came outside the line, the ball flight with down the left side and turning back in. And it’s actually gone very little distance at all. So if that looks like you, try and think about bringing the club more from the inside, letting the hip shift and rotate nicely through the ball, and bring the club down on the inside line, and that should help improve your swing path and your ball flight. 2015-10-08

Now if you’ve been fighting a slice in your game, we’ve established that a lot of the issue with the slice could be caused by the swing path. And the swing path is generally a little bit too much outside the line and too much over the top. So to improve on your slicing, correct your slice. We’re going to want to try and feel the opposite swing path which is an inside swing path. But we have to put a caveat on this and say, you can get too much on the inside, that can be a problem being too far on the inside. But the swing path line straight back and straight through, we‘re going to try and be slightly inside that line, and if we’re coming at it from the inside we’re going to actually travel to the outside. So a swing path that’s between zero and maybe plus five on a Trackman, or FlightScope, something of that nature is where you want to be aiming. I like to see around about three degrees attacking the golf ball from the inside, that would be lovely. So we’re setting up to the golf ball nicely, we’re taking the club nicely back on the right line, getting the club to the top.

Now from a lot of golfer’s perspective, this look quite good, and then they make the mistake, flat footed with the lower half, not moving or turning the hips and the upper body attacks. And we come over, and we see a lot of golfers chopping and then coming flat on the follow through as they are out to in motion kicks in. Now from the top, if we make a nice shifting rotational motion with the hips, that’s going to allow the club more chance, more room to fall back onto the inside line or on the downswing line, that’s going to be quite straight towards the golf ball. Now from the top you just slide your hips. There's a chance the club falls too flat, but if we can slide and rotate at the same time, we should feel the club comes back down on a nice line, attacks the golf ball just slightly from the inside angle then it can be in to out in a nice rotating draw or straight shot.

What we definitely want to avoid is standing flat footed and hitting with the shoulders which will definitely cause you to come over at the top and slice the ball. The other area I see is a bit of a mistake from people with the same fault is they get it quick, they lose the tempo. They get to the top and they snatch on it and they come over the top and slice the golf ball. So try and have a nice smooth tempo, a one, two and a three tempo to allow the club to come back down on the right line. So we’re definitely looking to avoid this flat footed over the top quick slice. And you see my body weight here is leaning right back, the club came outside the line, the ball flight with down the left side and turning back in. And it’s actually gone very little distance at all. So if that looks like you, try and think about bringing the club more from the inside, letting the hip shift and rotate nicely through the ball, and bring the club down on the inside line, and that should help improve your swing path and your ball flight.