Use The Gate Drill To Fix A Slice (Video) - Lesson by Peter Finch
Use The Gate Drill To Fix A Slice (Video) - Lesson by Peter Finch

A fantastic and to-the-point drill that you can use to help fix the slice is a gate drill. Now a gate drill focuses on path and giving you an impression and giving you an idea of where your club path is travelling as you hit the shot. Now this gate is very simple to set up, I got a couple of head covers here, one on the right hand side of my ball so when the outside of my ball, and one side on the inside of my ball. And you can see here how in the middle where my ball is sitting, there’s a target line going straight down towards where I want the ball to finish. Now if I was slicing the shot, what would be happening is as I come down to impact, the club travels over the top, it had hit the outside head cover here or if you missed that one and then move too quickly left, I’d be heading the inside head cover.

This gives feedback, a very instant feedback as well. If you hit one of these head covers, you know that that club has travelled from out to in. Using a combination of some of the drills we’ve already covered, the foot back drill, getting that transition correct, using the extension out to the right hand side, it can really help redirect what path is doing through the point of impact. I’ve actually in hindsight set these gates up in a very, very hard position, however, I’m going to give it the old college try, so I’m getting set up, I’m going to try and get that transition nice and slow into the down swing extending my arms out to the right hand side, managing to miss the head covers and I had a rather enthusiastic draw. It’s not a slice though, but you can adapt it and you can change these however you want to, but if you don’t hit them then you will know that you have not moved the club from out to in which is needed to hit that classic slice shot. 2016-08-26

A fantastic and to-the-point drill that you can use to help fix the slice is a gate drill. Now a gate drill focuses on path and giving you an impression and giving you an idea of where your club path is travelling as you hit the shot. Now this gate is very simple to set up, I got a couple of head covers here, one on the right hand side of my ball so when the outside of my ball, and one side on the inside of my ball. And you can see here how in the middle where my ball is sitting, there’s a target line going straight down towards where I want the ball to finish. Now if I was slicing the shot, what would be happening is as I come down to impact, the club travels over the top, it had hit the outside head cover here or if you missed that one and then move too quickly left, I’d be heading the inside head cover.

This gives feedback, a very instant feedback as well. If you hit one of these head covers, you know that that club has travelled from out to in. Using a combination of some of the drills we’ve already covered, the foot back drill, getting that transition correct, using the extension out to the right hand side, it can really help redirect what path is doing through the point of impact. I’ve actually in hindsight set these gates up in a very, very hard position, however, I’m going to give it the old college try, so I’m getting set up, I’m going to try and get that transition nice and slow into the down swing extending my arms out to the right hand side, managing to miss the head covers and I had a rather enthusiastic draw. It’s not a slice though, but you can adapt it and you can change these however you want to, but if you don’t hit them then you will know that you have not moved the club from out to in which is needed to hit that classic slice shot.