how to stop slicing

There is one thing that drives over 80% of golfers crazy. The dreaded slice. For the uninitiated a slice is a shot that starts left of the target and curves violently right for right players. For left hand players it starts right and goes left. There is nothing good about a slice. Both distance and accuracy are affected. The problem is that really only beginner to intermediate level golfers actually slice, due to their inexperience and low level of knowledge they don't know how to fix them.

So let's start with why does the ball curve the way that it does? The two main ball flight laws that determine a slice are clubface and path. In the golf swing the clubface is 4 times more influential than the path. So for you slicers that means that at impact your clubface is open. To make matters worse, because you fear the ball going right you will move your path to the left. This is dead wrong. Now you have an open face and a path that cuts across the ball. Severe left to right side spin is created and now you are looking for the ball in the right trees all day.

Remember how I said that the face is 4 times more influential than the path? This is the key to
how to stop slicing We need to square up or even close that face. Believe it or not, this can be done with relatively little effort. In the golf swing the clubface is controlled by the grip and the flexion and extension of the wrists. First we need to check whether you have a neutral grip on the club. If you wear a glove if you have a wear mark on the pad of the hand or the thumb than I can tell you your grip needs fixing.

Firstly the lead hand or top hand. The grip must run diagonally through the fingers from the middle joint on the index finger down to the base of the joint on the little finger, the thumb needs to be softly placed on the right side of the grip, to the left of center. If you have done this you should achieve a vision of 2-3 knuckles showing on the top hand. Now for the right hand, this again must be done more through the fingers basically running through the first joints on all fingers on the right hand. The thumb will be placed on the left side of the grip, just to the left of center. To check: the left thumb should not be visible at all and grip pressure should be light.

It is very difficult to have an open face with the grip shown above. The clubface is king. There are many other ways one can fix their slice. This tip attacks a common problem amongst all slicers: the clubface due to the grip.
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