Golf Slice Tips

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Golf Slice Tips: Leave the Slicing to the Samurai Swords

As you should already know, slices are only good for tennis or bread; in golf, it’s a curse as well as a disease. You’ve probably heard all of that before; you’ve heard instructors telling you all the reasons why people slice but somehow they forget to mention what you should do to avoid slicing. Too often, instructors keep explaining the cause and effect of sliced shots, without providing any helpful advice on what kind of swing is needed to avoid the dreaded banana ball (what the golf ball becomes when it’s sliced). So instead of just handling one half of the problem by understanding what sliced shots are, here are some tips on how to hit more approach shots from the fairway than the right rough. Make sure that slicing never becomes a problem in your game ever again.

The Other Arm is at Fault!

You’d need a wide and powerful backswing to get distance on your drive but if you’ve been slicing the ball as of late, you should try to identify why this is happening and make proper adjustments and adaptations. Just to give you an idea, if you’re right-handed / left-handed, then maybe the culprit is the other hand. You need to keep the other arm out straight on your backswing but not when you execute your follow through. An uncurled, tension-filled other arm during the follow through will certainly result in those undesirable slices; it prevents your leading arm from rotating naturally, which is essential for drives.

Balance Yourself In All Directions.

The address position should have balance and equilibrium with regards to leverage; it’s yet another way of eliminating slice. To further elaborate, your starting stance should have even weight distribution (evenly proportioned weight over the balls and heels of both feet). By knee flexing and proper balance, you’ll be ready to spring in any direction to ‘catch’ the ball, so to speak. As a golfer, this athletic position (in-fielders make use of it as well) is vital in hitting the ball correctly.

Leaning should be avoided.

The natural tendency to combat a banana ball is to lean away from the ball but that will make your slice worse! As been mentioned, keep your balance in every direction and you’ll see it’s easier to turn through the golf ball. Because when it comes to leaning, the ball has a tendency to go to the direction you’re leaning, especially if you’ve already established the balanced address position after unintentionally doing the slice.

Times When Slicing Is Actually Good.

Have you become such a professional at slicing that you can make tips on how to do golf slices? Here’s an opportunity to make use of your notorious skill. Some shots are more hair-wrenchingly painful that it misses the green with a wedge. Many people, miss it to the left - an all-too-common mistake with a lot of players. Ever had that problem? Well, what do you know, slicing champ - the golf slice is the solution to that. Slice your wedge shot to make sure that you’ll hit that green with no problems. Slacken your right hand position and hold the club face open during contact; by doing so, it gets rid of the drag and generates more rotation and flight. This which makes your swing harder and more accurate. The green is all yours with the wedged slice.

Perhaps slicing isn’t just for bread, tennis or samurai swords; the wedge slice rules. Nevertheless with the above tips, you can own slicing so much it should call you daddy.

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