Fix Your Slice Fast And Easy

Are you a novice golf player or an avid golfer that is tired of slicing the golf ball? There are some golf swing mechanics that lead you to slice the ball and having the knowledge of what causes this can help you fix it. Here is an explanation that should help and a drill to help you as well.

Before we start the explanation you need to know that to really get effective enough to stop slicing you'll require plenty more than this article. You either need to get professional instruction from a club pro or you need to get yourself a good step-by-step plan of attack like the one at the bottom of this article. It is worth the few minutes of your time to check it out.

So what is causing you to slice the ball?

First, you need to learn that there are just a couple things that control the direction of the golf ball and that is your swing path and your club face angle. The path is responsible for you pulling, pushing, or hitting the ball straight, and the face of the club is responsible for the hook, draw, straight shot, fade, and slice.

Now that you know you have to improve your face angle at impact. If you are pull slicing, then you also have a path issues and your path is outside in. If you are push slicing (very ugly!), then you have an inside out swing path. Both of these have an open face, which is causing your slice.

The Drill

Now to work on figuring out how not to slice we need to fix your face angle and your path, most likely. You can do this by setting up a shoebox about a half inch from the ball and hitting the ball without hitting the shoebox. You may go through a few shoe boxes before you perfect this, but it will work.