Why You Need This: In this video, you’ll discover how to stop slicing the driver.

We’ve all been there...

You’re feeling confident as you step up to the tee box and let your driver rip.

But then that sinking feeling sets in...

You just hit a horrendous slice!

Ready to find out how to stop slicing with your driver?

I bet you are!

In this video, you’ll see the science behind the slice.

You’ll learn what the club head is doing in the down swing and through contact...

And how you can fix it.

You’ll also learn what affects the slice the most.

Is it your club path?

How about the club face being open or shut?

Find out...

Watch this video now to get rid of your slice once and for all!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:53

Video Transcription:

Ah, the slice, one of the most frustrating swings in the game. That ball starts out either to the target, maybe even the right of the target and the it just slices off the map.

We’re going to talk about how you can get rid of the slice once and for all, what’s the science, what’s the club head doing, and how we can fix this right away. Let’s go ahead and get started.

Al right, so I’ve got a great visual for you guys to visualize what’s happening when we’re hitting that slice. A lot of times when we hit a really bad slice, the ball starts out at the target and then fades way away from the target.

That’s what happened in the swing that I just did, as you can see from the FlightScope numbers. We’ll talk about that here in a minute. But the first thing we need to realize is that the ball is going to start whichever direction the face is pointing.

So if I make contact whether I’m swinging left, I’m swinging right, wherever that is, if my face is pointing straight at the target, then my golf shot is going to start pretty much straight at the target.

If you look at this one, the face was almost directly at the target. I think it was 0.1° left of the target at impact according to the FlightScope. That’s the reason that the ball started at the target.

Now the ball curved very far away from the target, and that’s because the ball will curve away from your path. So on that particular swing, my face was dead square going right toward the target.

My path though, or the direction that the club head is moving as it’s hitting the ball, as you can see from this kind of generic swing plane line, you can see how that’s tilted instead of being straight, that’s tilted over here to the left and my ball is swinging about 6 or a little over 6° right to left across this golf ball.

Since my path is going left my ball is going to curve away from that path. So you can see that my face, even though it’s dead toward the target, is pointing to the right of my path. The ball’s curving away from the path and getting that big slice.

Once we understand this, what we need to do is we need to number one, fix our path angle so it’s a little bit more straight. We can straighten out that ball, and our face angle is going to remain pretty straight, and we’ll go over exactly the feelings you need to have to make this change and start straightening out that ball flight.

All right, so the first thing we want to check is alignment. As we set up one of the most common things I see when people are hitting a slice, is that ball starts to curve left to right. To counterbalance that, they start to line up more and more to the left.

So now you can see my feet are lined up well to the left, this stick here is going to my target, the flag that you can see straight ahead. That’s our target in this video.

Now as I start to tilt my feet more and more to the left, my path or the big U-shaped arc that we just saw there, is going farther, and farther, and farther to the left. It only makes my slice bigger, the ball continues to curve more and more and more, and it gets more exaggerated the farther left that I align my feet.

So that’s one of the very first things that we want to do, is to go ahead and make sure that our feet are square, or if you’re really battling the slice, I don’t mind seeing somebody with their feet a little bit closed.

After you get used to hitting a little bit more of a draw, then you can straighten it back up, so that would be completely fine. But check that first, make sure that your feet are square.

Now once we’ve done that, we have to get a little bit of spine tilt. This is one of the things that we teach in the Top Speed Golf System in the Stable Fluid Spine, but I want when I set up, if you can imagine a stick going right down the middle of my stance here.

If I take from my sternum to my belt buckle, if that’s straight up and down, or leaning a little bit to the left, I’m setting myself up in a position to where I can easily kind of chop down right to left across this ball. I’m going to do the same thing from this direction.

My spine is tilted toward the target a little bit that way, and my nose is in front of the golf ball, and I’m chopping down over top of it. So go ahead and stand up in your living room and try this out.

As you get tilted this way, your nose gets in front of the golf ball, you’re going to see it’s very easy to visualize hitting on the outside of that ball and swinging right to left across the ball. That’s going to get you that big slice.

What I want to do, is I want to set up, we can imagine this is where the ball is. We’ll go ahead and put it a little farther forward for our driver. There’s where the ball is set up.

I’m going to have my nose, instead of being straight up and down or a little bit to the left which would be bad, I’ve got to have that tilted back behind the ball. So if I drew a line from my sternum to my belt buckle, I want that to be tilted away so about 6° to 10° at address.

I’m going to be tilted away slightly, that’s setting me up to where I can come from more of an inside path. So again, I’m feeling like my nose is behind the golf ball. I’ll set up here, my nose is behind the golf ball, from sternum to belt buckle I’m coming down the inside of my leg.

If you watch that as I set up here, I’m tilted back a little bit, and now I feel like I’m going to be swinging, hitting more of the inside quadrant of the golf ball and instead of that path, that big hoop that we had here being tilted left, it’s going to be tilted a little bit to the right to get some of that draw action on there. So that’s the second piece.

We’ve got to make sure our alignment is correct, we’ve got to make sure that our body is tilted correct to get us in the correct position to deliver that club there, and then after that, we’re going to make sure that our body doesn’t open up too soon.

So as we get to the top of the backswing, if my body rips open, so my chest, everything rips open, it’s matching that hula hoop to the left, now I’m going to be swinging to the left.

I want you to have the visualization that the first move as you start down is you’re going to let your club kind of drop in back here, and your chest is going to be a little bit more closed.

That’s just your first couple of inches in the downswing, then you can go ahead and open up and swing all the way on through. But that’s got to be the first move, is don’t let your body rip open as you’re starting down, feel like your body is a little bit more closed as you start down then you can come on through.

You also may feel like your right elbow is below your left elbow. So see how my right elbow’s way below my left elbow? That’s helping me keep closed with my shoulders and get swinging more out to the right.

Now finally here, I want to actually imagine spinning this golf ball. If I can swing a little bit more to the right, and now we imagine that hula hoop, or that U-shape tilted more this way, I’ve got to get my club face closed to that. That’s what’s going to get the draw.

So just like when our club face is open to the path with the slice, our club face wants to feel closed to the path with the draw. So I want to imagine that as I hit this ball, if I can imagine it with my hand, I’m going to be going like this.

My club face instead of being square or open is going to be a little bit closed, and I’m going to spin this golf ball. If I do that, that ball’s going to start going this way, that gets that right to left spin, and that’s what gets your draw on the golf ball. That’s the visualization I want to have.

Piece number one, want to make sure that my alignment is straight, or even just slightly closed. Number two, I want to make sure that I’m tilted back. Number three, I want to make sure that as I start down, I’m closed, my right elbow is under, that’s going to help me to swing to the right.

Then number four, I’m going to release that face to imagine spinning that golf ball from right to left. If I put all four pieces of those together, it’s going to be that nice draw. Go ahead and do about 100 repetitions focusing on each one of these pieces.

Take your time, make some practice swings, you don’t have to hit a ball, 100 reps getting all four of these down, and then once you’ve done that, you’re going to go out make one practice swing, and then we’re going to hit a golf ball.

So as we set up to the ball, stance, tilt, shoulders closed, release that club face. There we go, nice little draw. Hit that ball pretty solid. Good luck to you guys, I’ll see you all soon.