What Is The Perfect Driver Specification If I Slice My Golf Shots (Video) - by Peter Finch
What Is The Perfect Driver Specification If I Slice My Golf Shots (Video) - by Peter Finch

What is the perfect driver specification if I slice my golf shots? Now the very first thing to say is if you buy a driver which is specifically designed to stop a slice, please bear in mind that you’re not stopping the slice. You’re simply covering it up. And that will mean that with other clubs and even possibly with the driver you buy, the slice won’t be eradicated; it would just be covered up and it would just be glossed over. It will always be there under the surface ready to poke out.

The only way of truly fixing a slice is to alter your technique so it doesn’t come back. So don’t be tempted into a quick fix. Always try and focus on the technique to change that. However if you are buying a driver specifically to stop that slice, there are a couple of things you can look out for. First of all, the amount of loft which; is on that club. Slices tend to use drivers which are too -- well, doesn’t have enough loft and that will increase the actual spin axis to either side and obviously normally off to the right hand side. So if you are struggling with a slice, make sure you have enough loft upwards of 10 degrees at the very least. The second thing you wan to do is make sure you have a shaft of sufficient soft flex. A lot of slices use a very stiff shaft, a very unforgiving shaft which doesn’t have much bend and much ply. Now that will again cause that club to come across on an [out to in] fashion and hit that bit of a slice. Now the last thing you can do is also get an adjustable driver. So an adjustable driver has different shaft settings or you can get an off set driver which closes the clubface. Either way you can adjust those drivers to make sure the clubface rather than sitting square behind the ball is actually closed a little bit to the target. Now that will almost give you a bit of a head start because it pre-closes the clubface and it also starts the ball a little bit further left. So if you are thinking of getting a driver to fix your slice, please remember that the slice technique that you’re using is still there and it will just be covering it up. But if you are buying a driver, go through those checkpoints and hopefully you should see some straighter shots off the tee. 2014-11-19

What is the perfect driver specification if I slice my golf shots? Now the very first thing to say is if you buy a driver which is specifically designed to stop a slice, please bear in mind that you’re not stopping the slice. You’re simply covering it up. And that will mean that with other clubs and even possibly with the driver you buy, the slice won’t be eradicated; it would just be covered up and it would just be glossed over. It will always be there under the surface ready to poke out.

The only way of truly fixing a slice is to alter your technique so it doesn’t come back. So don’t be tempted into a quick fix. Always try and focus on the technique to change that. However if you are buying a driver specifically to stop that slice, there are a couple of things you can look out for. First of all, the amount of loft which; is on that club. Slices tend to use drivers which are too — well, doesn’t have enough loft and that will increase the actual spin axis to either side and obviously normally off to the right hand side. So if you are struggling with a slice, make sure you have enough loft upwards of 10 degrees at the very least.

The second thing you wan to do is make sure you have a shaft of sufficient soft flex. A lot of slices use a very stiff shaft, a very unforgiving shaft which doesn’t have much bend and much ply. Now that will again cause that club to come across on an [out to in] fashion and hit that bit of a slice.

Now the last thing you can do is also get an adjustable driver. So an adjustable driver has different shaft settings or you can get an off set driver which closes the clubface. Either way you can adjust those drivers to make sure the clubface rather than sitting square behind the ball is actually closed a little bit to the target. Now that will almost give you a bit of a head start because it pre-closes the clubface and it also starts the ball a little bit further left.

So if you are thinking of getting a driver to fix your slice, please remember that the slice technique that you’re using is still there and it will just be covering it up. But if you are buying a driver, go through those checkpoints and hopefully you should see some straighter shots off the tee.