Category: Slicing

The Ball Is Below Your Feet

Getting a fade, slice, or duffing because the toe of your club touches the ground first and opens the face of the club.

Hitting From a Divot for Low Trajectory

Clubface opens at impact or needing a low trajectory.

Stop Slicing Your Putts

You make a long, wristy stroke with your shoulders open and elbows are spread too wide. Due to this set up, you probably play the ball too far forward so the face of the putter to appears to be open and you swipe across the ball causing you to slice your putts.

Slicing Due to a Poor Setup

Addressing the ball with your shoulders aligned too far to the left will cause you to slice. Many people make the mistake of lifting their left heel during the backswing, which is one of the most common causes of a slice.

A Balanced Arm Pull

Hitting fat, hooking, or slicing due to being pulled way from the ball in the backswing and pulled into the ball on the downswing, causing you to pull up. You will hit the ball off the toe or you’ll top it if you pull up too fast. You will hit the ball on the heel of the club, shank it or…

A Three Dimensional Swing for Better Contact

Failure to make proper contact with the ball due to a poor swing; causing you to hook, slice, top, or duff. You fail to make solid contact if you move your right elbow up and down because you don’t get the depth you need to make a full backswing turn.

How to Get a Draw and a Fade

Needing a draw or a fade to make it around doglegs or other obstacles.

Swing, Brace, and Whip For More Power

Slicing, hitting fat, or topping and your backswing ends too early.

Slicing Due to Over Acceleration or Weight Shift

Slicing or ball flight to the right due to over accelerating your arms during the downswing will cause the club to attack from a slightly inside-out path and the face to rotate on plane through impact. Shifting your weight improperly or excessively moving your hips and legs can cause the ball to slice to the right.

Slicing Checklist

You are slicing so the ball flies to the left of the target line and then curves right to finish towards the right of the target.