You can cure your slice with a simple feeling.
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Slices is mostly The usual miss among recreation players. Go to every string on the weekend and you will see what I mean. Hackers just can’t seem to stop hitting that big ball in bananas.
The shot form usually affects players with the highest handicap, but can even give the most accomplished players fit. It is a miss who likes to support his head in the worst moments.
We have covered Reasons for a slice Enough in this site, but here is a quick refresh. There are two ingredients that cause a slice: 1. An open club in influence. And 2. A rocking road that is very out. Combine those two flaws and you have the perfect recipe for a slice.
Today, we will focus on the correction of the swinging path – and in a way that you will not even have to think about standing on the ball. For more about that we turn to Golf teacher to see James Hong.
A wicked slice adjustment
When players rubbing the ball, they tend to come to the top and have a rocking road that is very outside. And to fix the slice, you have to bring your path closer to the neutral. Sounds quite simple, right? Well, as anyone who has tried to make changes in pace to achieve this can tell you is rarely so easy.
However, if you try this exercise that James Hong uses with his students, you can take that path by moving in the right direction without even thinking about it.
“I call it swimmer’s move,” says Hong. “When I ask them to hold a stretch stick (across their chest) and make a trailing movement, they will move that way. If you notice, this is the same pattern or movement as an over-the-top action.”
Instead of moving your shoulders forward and on top like you when you crawl, Hong asks his students to rotate their shoulders back, as they would do when swimming on their backs.
“This is actually encouraging a little more a drop in the interior,” Hong says. “Some players’ players like to focus on the reassessment of the club or the club’s assignment. So it helps to encourage this.”
It may sound like an adjustment that is very good to be true, but Hong has used it many times with the students he has learned – and with great success. Such a time, he approached a golf player in the range with an outer trail about 11 degrees and asked him to try the swimmer’s movement. Then, he simply asked him to hit the ball again without any other instruction.
“The other ball he was only two degrees out,” Hong says. “Again, there were no instructions. Just doing this and then jumping again there to hit another ball.”
