Takeaway Tips To Improve Your Golf Slice (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles
Takeaway Tips To Improve Your Golf Slice (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles

So if we’ve now that you’ve set up the golf ball in the right place trying to improve your slice, we are now going to above a look at how the club moves back away from the golf ball to make sure the takeaway doesn’t do anything to encourage the slice. So we want the club to come back on a nice straight angle, nice and low and slow to the ground. We want this to be a really repeatable action, something we can do consistently on the range but also on the golf course. What I am going to suggest is we take a tee peg, a spare tee peg, position it behind the golf ball, around about 18-20 inches back from the golf ball straight in your target line and just stick it into the ground there. Now the key to this exercise is that I should clip that tee on the way back away from the golf ball, because if I was to lift the club up with my hands and arms, or bring the club inside too much, I’m going to miss that tee peg. But if I make a nice low and slow takeaway on the way back, you can hear and you can see how the club will clip the top of that tee on the way back down to the golf ball. So I am resisting the urge to lift and pick the club up. I am going to sweep it low and slow over the top of the tee, you can actually go ahead and hit shots like that as well, so we can take this low and slow takeaway clipping the tee and then bring that club nice and aggressively back down to the golf ball and sweep the ball away. It is a drill that you can do on the driving range, on the practice ground and actually hit real shots.

Second drill I‘d like to see you do as well. Just taking a seven iron, we are not going to hit a shot with this necessarily. We are just going to grip nice and low down on the club, take an imaginary set up, and then turn back. And at this height here, we’d like to see that the shaft is pointing directly down to the target and the toe edge is pointing nicely up towards the sky slightly tilted in from the vertical I think would be better. So we are not going to have the club swinging inside, and we are not going to have the club in an open position either. We are going to take the club back, bring it back on line, when it’s parallel to the ground, parallel to my target line. Make sure that it points at my target, and the face is slightly turned in. This should cause the ball to probably go left too much. This side clusters too open causing the ball to slice out to the right even more. We don’t want to outside the line. We don’t want to inside the line, nice and square coming back. And I think those two takeaway drills are really going to help you get the feeling of bringing the club back on line and hopefully giving you a chance to reduce your slice. 2015-10-08

So if we’ve now that you’ve set up the golf ball in the right place trying to improve your slice, we are now going to above a look at how the club moves back away from the golf ball to make sure the takeaway doesn’t do anything to encourage the slice. So we want the club to come back on a nice straight angle, nice and low and slow to the ground. We want this to be a really repeatable action, something we can do consistently on the range but also on the golf course. What I am going to suggest is we take a tee peg, a spare tee peg, position it behind the golf ball, around about 18-20 inches back from the golf ball straight in your target line and just stick it into the ground there. Now the key to this exercise is that I should clip that tee on the way back away from the golf ball, because if I was to lift the club up with my hands and arms, or bring the club inside too much, I’m going to miss that tee peg. But if I make a nice low and slow takeaway on the way back, you can hear and you can see how the club will clip the top of that tee on the way back down to the golf ball. So I am resisting the urge to lift and pick the club up. I am going to sweep it low and slow over the top of the tee, you can actually go ahead and hit shots like that as well, so we can take this low and slow takeaway clipping the tee and then bring that club nice and aggressively back down to the golf ball and sweep the ball away. It is a drill that you can do on the driving range, on the practice ground and actually hit real shots.

Second drill I‘d like to see you do as well. Just taking a seven iron, we are not going to hit a shot with this necessarily. We are just going to grip nice and low down on the club, take an imaginary set up, and then turn back. And at this height here, we’d like to see that the shaft is pointing directly down to the target and the toe edge is pointing nicely up towards the sky slightly tilted in from the vertical I think would be better. So we are not going to have the club swinging inside, and we are not going to have the club in an open position either. We are going to take the club back, bring it back on line, when it’s parallel to the ground, parallel to my target line. Make sure that it points at my target, and the face is slightly turned in. This should cause the ball to probably go left too much. This side clusters too open causing the ball to slice out to the right even more. We don’t want to outside the line. We don’t want to inside the line, nice and square coming back. And I think those two takeaway drills are really going to help you get the feeling of bringing the club back on line and hopefully giving you a chance to reduce your slice.