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Curing the Slice
Topic Started: Oct 29 2012, 03:27 AM (149 Views)
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The drills I am about to describe to you will increase your feel for what is going on in the swing and through impact. They are quite simple, but you must be willing to do them smoothly, without trying to hit the ball hard. You must be willing to work on them until you do, indeed, have the correct feel for the clubface being square through impact.

If you try to hit the ball hard a number of things happen that make it impossible to learn the feeling I am talking about. Stick with the exercises at a very slow speed, making sure that you understand and have memorized the feeling of squaring the clubface through impact. Once this feeling is ingrained speeding it up will be easy, but if you try it too fast too soon ... well, you can't get there from here. I warned you. All bets are off if you don't follow this advice.

Start by doing all these things with a 5 or 6 Scotty Cameron putter . You can advance to the longer clubs, including the driver, once you start to develop some feel. It might even be advisable to start with a partial range of motion instead of a full swing.

The first thing I want you to do is to keep your hands more relaxed throughout the swing. This is the number one ingredient to developing feel. Keep reminding yourself to relax your hands and not squeeze the club to death. I'm not talking about having your hands so relaxed that the club is "sloppy" and moving around in your hands. Let's just say I'd like for you to feel that the club is heavy -- sense the weight of the club head at the end of the shaft.

Now I want you to think about exaggerating in the opposite direction. Since, to create a slice, your club is traveling across to the left and facing open to the right, let's try swinging slightly out to the right and facing the club to the left. Don't worry if you can do this yet or not, and don't worry if you aren't hitting good shots with the beautiful Scotty Cameron putter for sale in the market you can buy. The purpose here is just to learn a new feeling, not to hit good shots. Think about this drill for a second. If you actually DID swing slightly out to the right and have the clubface pointing slightly to the left through impact what would the result be? Well, on a short swing like we're starting with the ball should actually GO to the left. With a full swing you'd get a hook or a draw!

The most common problem associated with this is that the arms many times are the source of the downswing. Instead of pushing or pulling the club down at the ball with the arms and hands, just let the arms fall or drop, as you move your weight toward the left foot and turn your torso to the left and around toward the target. You don't need to take your eyes away from the ball to do this. Just feel what your body is doing.
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