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As golfers, we need to face a few realities. The first of these is that it is difficult to get your ball to fly (and land) in the direction of the hole. You will often hear golf aficionados refer to these “poor” shots as a slice, a draw/fade, a hook, a push, or a shank. This article focuses on the slice, and how to fix it.

In golf, the word “Slice” is used to describe a shot where the golf ball flies in a curved line ending to the right of the intended target (left for left-handed golfers). This is different from a “Push” in that the ball flies in a curved line (shaped like a banana, actually), whereas a “Push” flies in a straight line to the right of the target. Note that for a left-handed golfer the curve of a slice will be to the left.

Usually, a slice is caused by the rotation of the ball – clockwise for a slice that curves to the right. This rotation is usually the result of one or more of the following:

Your swing path – In my own swing, I found that I was turning the club during my backswing & this caused the ball to slice because when the face of the club hit the ball, it was not perpendicular to the target. My teacher at the time told me that the reason is that I tended to raise the club over my head, whereas it should only reach over your shoulders. The point is to NOT turn the club during your backswing. I don’t know if this would work for everyone, but it did for me. Also, and maybe this is obvious at this point, you should keep the club face perpendicular to the target during the downswing and follow through as well.

Your posture – Your face, chest and stomach should all face your target at the end of your stroke. As a slice is caused by the spin of the ball, simply aiming a little more to the left or right will not help you here. Work to keep your shoulders, hips and feet are parallel to the club/ball during your swing.

Your grip – It may surprise you to see grip on this list. Surely your grip do not change the direction of your swing (and therefore effect the ball rotation), right? Well, it may not effect the direction of your swing, but it could effect the angle of the club face when it strikes the ball, and that will effect the ball’s spin. I have heard people talk about how many knuckles you should see on each hand, and other ‘tricks’, but I have found that being aware of this can be enough to straighten out the face of your club.

Good luck and see you out there on the course!

About the author:
Fred R. is a golf fanatic who is constantly working on his short game. He is currently practicing at home using his indoor putting green and a putter.

Golf problem can you help?

I played golf a lot when I was little than stopped for 4 or 5 years and played baseball, but now im going back to golf. I just spent a year getting my swing back and have a series short game/ iron problem. I am 15 and 120 pounds and can hit my driver an average of 245-280 yds. I can hit my 3 wood about 200 yds and 5 wood 185 yds. I can chip pretty well but I cant really put and I cant hit my 3,4,5,6,and 7 iron. I can hit my 8 about 155yds and my 9 about 120yds. I have done everything, private lessons, videos, practice. I know I still have some of my baseball swing in it but how can I get better? I am using callaway forged x-14 irons 3-PW and X-22 woods and an FT-9 driver and im a lefty. Please help.

I had your same problem. What I learned is that you really have to think about leg position and technique.

When I first started, I had the problem of hooking either left or right with any club, because I was so used to a baseball swing, but then I got that fixed but I still couldn’t hit it. So I took private lessons and I found this out

When you are swinging irons, it is not the same swing as a wood or driver or you will go over the top of the ball and dribble it 20 yards. You have to chop at it. Basically, you need to make a divot. If you make a divot with an iron, you swung right. Remember that.

To practice, just take practice swings before swinging and make sure you will take a divot with the swing, not sweeping and barely chopping the grass. If you do this your iron shots should be fine.

Also, don’t take divots with woods, those are bad. Irons are good to take divots, woods are not.

But if you still have trouble, go back to lessons and ask about how to consistently take divots with irons, it would really help.

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