Will making a flat swing cure my slice? (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles
Will making a flat swing cure my slice? (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles

Here is question for you then; will a flat golf swing cure your slice? Let’s have a little think about this, firstly let’s understand a slice, a slice is a golf shot that starts left of target for the right handed golfer, curves violently back to the right hand side. And that’s because, that slice is caused because the clubface is pointing further right than the swing path. So the swing path is generally going to be a long way left and the clubface would be to the right of the swing path. Now let’s look at the next terminology in that sense there is a flat golf swing, so a flat golf swing is generally considered as a swing that’s more around the body not high up in the air, but more around the body. Now generally speaking from a flat golf swing attacking the golf ball from a flatter position is going to produce more inside to outside swing path.

Now if there is an inside outside swing path that is the opposite of the slicing swing path of outside and inside, so does a flat golf swing cure a slice? Well it’s certainly taking care of the first part of the slice, which was the swing path position changed it from being out to in with now more in to out. So does the flat swing cure the slice? The swing path is now better, but how about the face position? With a slice the face was open in relation to the path, now from the flatter swing I’m inside the line but if my face is still open to the path I have now got a big push and if I want to stop the big push I could close my clubface down, roll my hands, get my clubface aiming left of the swing path but if my swing was really flat and I have closed the clubface a lot, that could cause a hook, so I could actually change my slice into a hook or into a push, so its not quite as simple as just flattening your swing. I think it is important to understand the relationship between what causes a slice, path, face, and what causes the hook, path, and face. Now a flatter swing is part of a correction to cure the slice, but let’s make sure we understand how a club face needs to work to completely eradicate that slicing problem 2015-03-31

Here is question for you then; will a flat golf swing cure your slice? Let’s have a little think about this, firstly let’s understand a slice, a slice is a golf shot that starts left of target for the right handed golfer, curves violently back to the right hand side. And that’s because, that slice is caused because the clubface is pointing further right than the swing path. So the swing path is generally going to be a long way left and the clubface would be to the right of the swing path. Now let’s look at the next terminology in that sense there is a flat golf swing, so a flat golf swing is generally considered as a swing that’s more around the body not high up in the air, but more around the body. Now generally speaking from a flat golf swing attacking the golf ball from a flatter position is going to produce more inside to outside swing path.

Now if there is an inside outside swing path that is the opposite of the slicing swing path of outside and inside, so does a flat golf swing cure a slice? Well it’s certainly taking care of the first part of the slice, which was the swing path position changed it from being out to in with now more in to out. So does the flat swing cure the slice? The swing path is now better, but how about the face position? With a slice the face was open in relation to the path, now from the flatter swing I’m inside the line but if my face is still open to the path I have now got a big push and if I want to stop the big push I could close my clubface down, roll my hands, get my clubface aiming left of the swing path but if my swing was really flat and I have closed the clubface a lot, that could cause a hook, so I could actually change my slice into a hook or into a push, so its not quite as simple as just flattening your swing. I think it is important to understand the relationship between what causes a slice, path, face, and what causes the hook, path, and face. Now a flatter swing is part of a correction to cure the slice, but let’s make sure we understand how a club face needs to work to completely eradicate that slicing problem