The Dreaded Golf Slice – Easy Tips to Relieve Your Golf Pain

By Peter R Burgess

Let's face it, I am not the first person to ever write about the dreaded golf slice or ways to cure it, but that's because it is such a pervasive golf disease. If you asked a hundred amateur/novice golfers what their biggest problem was on the golf course, then I suspect that over seventy-five of them would say that it was a slice. It's certainly been something, which has afflicted my own golf game since I began playing over twenty years ago and I have tried many different methods to cure the problem.

As you will probably already know from your own experiences in searching for the answer, there are more supposed golf slice cures than you could shake a large stick at, however so many are just too technical for me – I'm a simple guy at heart – and maybe you feel the same. Well, if you do, then I might just have a little bit of good news for you and it's so simple that even I can understand it and put it into practice.

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Primarily the tips below are written for use with the golf driver and longer irons, but the principle works just as well for your short irons too – you just adjust the stance width and ball position according to the club – the shorter the club, the narrower the stance and nearer to the middle of the stance with your ball position.

The simple key to it is reducing your swing to a ¾ swing - just try the following and I think you will be pleasantly surprised at the results...

* Stance – Instead of your normal shoulder-width stance, try narrowing it a little – it should feel more comfortable. Position the ball a couple of inches inside your left heel (for a right-handed player). Hint - keep the ball slightly more toward the centre of your stance than you would normally for a driver.

* Grip – Keep a firm grip on the club rather than too loose, as is often taught.

* Swing – Keep your left arm as straight as possible in the takeaway and only take the swing back until it is roughly level with the top of your shoulder, making sure that you do not cock your wrists at the top. Make the back and down swing slow, smooth and deliberate. Ensure that your follow through matches the back swing and keep the whole process as smooth as possible, maintaining the follow through with your hands high and your belt buckle pointing towards the target.

What you should find is that by reducing the swing to a ¾ swing that you will eliminate a lot of the sway from the process, which can take you out of alignment. The sheer simplicity of the reduced swing will bring your clubface back square to the ball at the point of impact, because you have eliminated the sway and the cocking of the wrists, which have pulled you out of line. So that, instead of cutting across the ball, and so imparting slice spin to your shot, you will hit the ball straight. I was amazed at how much this simple tip improved my game – it kept me on the fairway (now there was a novelty!) and surprisingly I lost no distance at all on my shots. Why not give it a try – it certainly worked for me? I'm not saying that I never slice the ball now, but the improvement has been huge.

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