Why You Need This:

Welcome back to the “Fix Your Slice” series where you’ll learn how to stop your slice once and for all!

In this video, “Stop Your Slice | The Basketball Drill”…

You’ll discover a simple drill that’ll help you ingrain the right movements to release your golf club…

And swing more inside to out.

So what do you need for this video?

All you need is a basketball (or any other big ball)…

And you can even practice the drill from the comfort of your own living room.

Now to fix your slice…

You’ll need to exaggerate the movements at first.

This will let your body get accustomed to the movements…

And once you get a good feel of a more inside-to-out path…

Then you’ll start straightening it out for a slight right to left ball flight.

Watch this video now to get great compression…

And start hitting powerful draws!

What's Covered:

• drill to eliminate your slice
• learn movements to swing on a more inside-to-out path
• exaggeration drill to combat your slice

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 3:38

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back to the Fix Your Slice series, we’re going to eliminate that slice once and for all. We’re a few videos into this, and I’ve got another great drill for you that’s going to help you learn to release that golf club and swing a little bit more inside out.

You can do it with a basketball from the comfort of your living room. All I want you to do is go ahead and grab a basketball with your hands on each side.

We’re going to imagine there’s a golf ball kind of floating in front of us, we’d be swinging and hitting that golf ball. Well as I’m coming in to this golf ball, I want my left hand to be on top of the basketball, so we’re actually rotating, my right arm is underneath the basketball.

You can see my right forearm is much lower, this will be coming in with some lag, really saving this hit for the last second. Then as I come on through, I’m going to let that roll on over. I’m getting this rolling action to release the club face.

Now if I want to exaggerate this even more, when I did that you could imagine there’s an equator in the ball, really level with the ground.

If I want to exaggerate coming more inside out, I can even get that ball where the equator is pointing a little bit up. I’m going to swing a little bit from low to high as I’m letting this ball release on through.

You can see that’s really going to get me to roll my hands on over. Once I’ve done that probably 40 or 50 times with the basketball, now let’s go ahead and grab a golf club and I’m going to do the exact same thing.

Again, I’m imagining a ball kind of floating out here in front of me, and as I’m coming through, I’m going to be having tons of lag getting that club from the inside, and then releasing it, rolling my hands on over going low to high as I’m releasing the club.

That’s a little exaggerated, that’s going to be more of a hook-type swing. When we make a real swing we’re going to be coming in more level and releasing the club square.

So now we’ve done it with a basketball, we’ve visualized this lag, low to high swing, releasing the club. Let’s go ahead and hit a couple golf balls doing this.

All right, so now we’ve got the club, let’s go ahead and make a couple practice swings here again, just to recreate. I’m going to stick this ball in front of me here, as I’m swinging up to there I would be having my hands kind of over top of where the ball is.

Then I’m going to release that club, you can see my forearms are rolling on over as I’m releasing that. So you can see my face is squaring up and rolling on over.

If we’re going to exaggerate, we’re going to go a little bit low to high, again, that would be a hook-type shot. If we do the opposite of that, an over the top swing would be more high to low, this direction is holding the face open, opposite of low to high, rolling the face over.

Once I’ve done those, I’m comfortable with that, now I’m going to go ahead and set up to a ball, and I’m just going to recreate that same feeling. Ideally, I want to get that ball really curving right to left.

This is a series about eliminating the slice, we’re trying to get that ball to hook first, and then we’re going to straighten it out.

I’m going to take my normal stance, nice square set up, I’m going to go to the flag out front, feeling that low to high type motion, letting the face roll on over, we’ll see if I can get a little nice draw on this ball.

There we go, that ball turned over maybe seven or eight yards, started a little to the right of the target and drew back in. I’m owing to hit about 40 or 50 balls, really getting that to hook at first. Between each swing, between each ball, I’m really going to practice this low to high drill.

Once I start to get the ball to hook, I can come in a little bit more level, where the face is coming in square.

If you start to really hook the ball and you want to straight him back out, you can feel, not really going to happen, but you can feel a little bit of that low to high, almost like you’re hitting a slice.

As you guys start to hook, you’ll feel you need to straighten back out, and I’ll have a little bit of a feeling of a slice in there, just to straighten him back out, but first hook it. Get that ball really moving right to left, then we can tone it down.

Work through these drills, get that nice, good compression, get that ball turning over. I’ll see you guys soon.