Simple Tips To Cure Your Golf Slice (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles
Simple Tips To Cure Your Golf Slice (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles

Now if you are really serious about curing your golf slice, there’s a couple of things we need to look at specifically first, just to make sure you’ve got some really good fundamentals in your address position. So we know that the path and the face relationship cause the issues with the slice, but actually if you don’t have your body in the right position, you probably can't improve the path and the face relationship anyway. So let’s have a look at posture first. When we set up to the golf ball, whether we’re hitting a slice, a fade or anything else, we want a nice athletic leg position, a good bend forward from the hips and letting the hands and arms hanging down into a good position. This will now create the space to bring the club down on the inside. If we see a golfer that’s too close to the ball and hunched over, chances are they are not going to be able to be in an athletic enough position to make the right swing. So it’s a very slight knee flex, push the bum out, lift the chin and the chest up, and have a good straight spine angle from down the line. Then also looking at the posture from the front on, we actually want to make sure that there is a slight tilt in the shoulders.

So a lot of golfers start to make issues where they actually get their shoulders too level. They try and bring their right shoulder up and level their shoulders, they think it looked better with leveled shoulders. But actually when you look at your hands, your right hand is lower than your left on the grip for a right handed golfer. So we would have to an inclined shoulder plane that allows us then to make a better backswing turn as well. One last thing to help you with your slice at the set up position, make sure the golf ball is positioned right up against your front foot for the driver and then make sure you are also aiming in the right direction. We don’t really want to see any massive compensations of aiming down the left side to allow the ball to slice or aiming right trying to draw it in. Make sure you’ve got good square alignments and that will help you hit neutral straight golf shots and help improve your slice. 2015-10-08

Now if you are really serious about curing your golf slice, there’s a couple of things we need to look at specifically first, just to make sure you’ve got some really good fundamentals in your address position. So we know that the path and the face relationship cause the issues with the slice, but actually if you don’t have your body in the right position, you probably can't improve the path and the face relationship anyway. So let’s have a look at posture first. When we set up to the golf ball, whether we’re hitting a slice, a fade or anything else, we want a nice athletic leg position, a good bend forward from the hips and letting the hands and arms hanging down into a good position. This will now create the space to bring the club down on the inside. If we see a golfer that’s too close to the ball and hunched over, chances are they are not going to be able to be in an athletic enough position to make the right swing. So it’s a very slight knee flex, push the bum out, lift the chin and the chest up, and have a good straight spine angle from down the line. Then also looking at the posture from the front on, we actually want to make sure that there is a slight tilt in the shoulders.

So a lot of golfers start to make issues where they actually get their shoulders too level. They try and bring their right shoulder up and level their shoulders, they think it looked better with leveled shoulders. But actually when you look at your hands, your right hand is lower than your left on the grip for a right handed golfer. So we would have to an inclined shoulder plane that allows us then to make a better backswing turn as well. One last thing to help you with your slice at the set up position, make sure the golf ball is positioned right up against your front foot for the driver and then make sure you are also aiming in the right direction. We don’t really want to see any massive compensations of aiming down the left side to allow the ball to slice or aiming right trying to draw it in. Make sure you’ve got good square alignments and that will help you hit neutral straight golf shots and help improve your slice.