The Connection Between Pop Up Golf Drives And The Slice (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles
The Connection Between Pop Up Golf Drives And The Slice (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles

I could almost guarantee that the golfer that stands in front of me and says that they have problems popping the ball up into the sky and they sky the ball into the air, too much. And they say, Pete I have got a problem you need to help me. I might say to them, “Okay, well if it doesn’t sky, what does it do?” “Oh well it slices.” So we see a slice and a pop-up drive are very, very interconnected. We either get the golf ball popping up high and straight or slicing from left to right. And the reason why they are interconnected is the faults that create them are very, very similar as well. So this one set of faults can create two different types of ball flight.

So if I set the camera down the line, picking out the red flag, open the distance. And I swing up to the top and I come over with my body, I get too far this way, my right hand gets too active, my body doesn’t release correctly from my left side. I am outside the line. I am then steep and down into the back of the golf ball. And we know that steep and from outside the line is definitely going to create the chance of the pop-up drive and is also definitely going to create the left to right potential on the golf ball with the slicing ball flight. So to understand the correction of how to avoid this, outside the line popping the thing up in the air, come set. I would like to get myself in a descent set of position and I would like to work on bringing the club down more behind me. If I can get that club to come more down from the inside as it comes into the back of the golf ball, the feeling that would be very much that I would be on a flatter swing plane, the club would be coming down less on the back of the golf ball. The flatter swing playing coming into the shot, should mean that the point of impact, I don’t so much gouge or divot out as I just pretty much click the ball fairly cleanly off the top of that tpeg. So I am not going to swing steep on this, so I am going to try and swing more around and flattened from the inside and create a nicer swing path that’s just going to click the ball off the tee. And you can see as I look down, the tpeg is just lent forwards ever so slightly so the club just click the top of the tee as the ball went through, but I certainly didn’t come outside the line and hit down and scoff down into the turf here which could have made the ball shoot from left to right with a slice or sky the ball completely up in the air. That flatter swing plane will stop the slice and the pop-up drives. 2016-05-02

I could almost guarantee that the golfer that stands in front of me and says that they have problems popping the ball up into the sky and they sky the ball into the air, too much. And they say, Pete I have got a problem you need to help me. I might say to them, “Okay, well if it doesn’t sky, what does it do?” “Oh well it slices.” So we see a slice and a pop-up drive are very, very interconnected. We either get the golf ball popping up high and straight or slicing from left to right. And the reason why they are interconnected is the faults that create them are very, very similar as well. So this one set of faults can create two different types of ball flight.

So if I set the camera down the line, picking out the red flag, open the distance. And I swing up to the top and I come over with my body, I get too far this way, my right hand gets too active, my body doesn’t release correctly from my left side. I am outside the line. I am then steep and down into the back of the golf ball. And we know that steep and from outside the line is definitely going to create the chance of the pop-up drive and is also definitely going to create the left to right potential on the golf ball with the slicing ball flight.

So to understand the correction of how to avoid this, outside the line popping the thing up in the air, come set. I would like to get myself in a descent set of position and I would like to work on bringing the club down more behind me. If I can get that club to come more down from the inside as it comes into the back of the golf ball, the feeling that would be very much that I would be on a flatter swing plane, the club would be coming down less on the back of the golf ball. The flatter swing playing coming into the shot, should mean that the point of impact, I don’t so much gouge or divot out as I just pretty much click the ball fairly cleanly off the top of that tpeg. So I am not going to swing steep on this, so I am going to try and swing more around and flattened from the inside and create a nicer swing path that’s just going to click the ball off the tee.

And you can see as I look down, the tpeg is just lent forwards ever so slightly so the club just click the top of the tee as the ball went through, but I certainly didn’t come outside the line and hit down and scoff down into the turf here which could have made the ball shoot from left to right with a slice or sky the ball completely up in the air. That flatter swing plane will stop the slice and the pop-up drives.