What is the best quick fix for a slice? (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles
What is the best quick fix for a slice? (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles

Now if we could bottle the cure for a slice you could sell that for as long as people have been playing the game of golf, because people will always slice the golf ball. Now, a lot of people say to me, Pete I got a game at the weekend, I’ve got to cure my slice before the weekend. Well, that is tough because the slice is probably quite an ingrained set of motions within the body that cause the slice to happen. But if you have to play a round at the weekend, you have to hit every fairway and you have to get rid of the slice what would I suggest? Well I’ll probably make a little bit about an awkward change. I’d probably change your alignment and your clubface at setup. Now I stress this isn’t changing the root cause of your stroke or your swing, this is literally a quick fix, a band-aid if you like just to get you on the golf course.

So, a slice is caused because the clubface is aiming right in relation to the swing path. So for most golfers that slice the ball the swing path is the left of target for the right handed golfer and the clubface is right of the swing path and therefore it slices. So what we would suggest is change that relationship at setup and then hope it hits the ball straight during the swing. So what we are going to do here is point the feet to the right of target. The intention with that is, that would change the swing path, make the swing path right of target. Then point the clubface left, so probably pointing the clubface left of your alignment and maybe back at the target. So pointing that club at the target, point your feet right of your target and it will feel very weird. Effectively you are closed with your stance and closed with your clubface. Then make a normal swing along the line of your feet. Now, if a golfer was to do that and actually achieve what I’ve just set up, they would probably hit big low hooks. But if you’ve actually got a swing pattern that’s inherently a slice, and then you change to that certain position, chances are you are going to end up with something that will fly you relatively straight. I am not suggesting that’s the long term fix, it certainly isn’t but in terms of a short term band aid, to get you around on the golf course at the weekends and minimize your slice, aim right, aim the club left and you’ve got half a chance. 2015-03-31

Now if we could bottle the cure for a slice you could sell that for as long as people have been playing the game of golf, because people will always slice the golf ball. Now, a lot of people say to me, Pete I got a game at the weekend, I’ve got to cure my slice before the weekend. Well, that is tough because the slice is probably quite an ingrained set of motions within the body that cause the slice to happen. But if you have to play a round at the weekend, you have to hit every fairway and you have to get rid of the slice what would I suggest? Well I’ll probably make a little bit about an awkward change. I’d probably change your alignment and your clubface at setup. Now I stress this isn’t changing the root cause of your stroke or your swing, this is literally a quick fix, a band-aid if you like just to get you on the golf course.

So, a slice is caused because the clubface is aiming right in relation to the swing path. So for most golfers that slice the ball the swing path is the left of target for the right handed golfer and the clubface is right of the swing path and therefore it slices. So what we would suggest is change that relationship at setup and then hope it hits the ball straight during the swing. So what we are going to do here is point the feet to the right of target. The intention with that is, that would change the swing path, make the swing path right of target. Then point the clubface left, so probably pointing the clubface left of your alignment and maybe back at the target. So pointing that club at the target, point your feet right of your target and it will feel very weird. Effectively you are closed with your stance and closed with your clubface. Then make a normal swing along the line of your feet. Now, if a golfer was to do that and actually achieve what I’ve just set up, they would probably hit big low hooks. But if you’ve actually got a swing pattern that’s inherently a slice, and then you change to that certain position, chances are you are going to end up with something that will fly you relatively straight. I am not suggesting that’s the long term fix, it certainly isn’t but in terms of a short term band aid, to get you around on the golf course at the weekends and minimize your slice, aim right, aim the club left and you’ve got half a chance.