Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Permanently Fix Your Slice WITHOUT THINKING!"

What if I told you that you could fix your slice–without even thinking about it?!

I know it sounds weird…

…but the crazy part is you actually fix it by hitting some ugly hook shots on the range!

Trust me, this sounds weird, but it’ll help you fine-tune your swing and eliminate that nasty slice any time it starts to show up.

This will also help you achieve a reliable draw pattern, and it’s much easier than you think!

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 19:17

Video Transcription:

Now if you follow along with what I'm about to teach you, you won't have to think at all when we're done with this, and I guarantee you that the ball will curve from right to left. You will have that draw pattern on every single swing. Now let's go ahead and get started. The first thing that we want to do, and this is where most people get wrong, is we want to square the face or have it left at contact in regard, in, in, uh, relative to your path.
And what I mean by this is the path means the direction that the club is swinging as you're coming. through contact. So if I have a square path, that just means that my club face is moving squarely toward the target as I'm hitting the golf ball. Now, if you're trying to hit a draw, your path may be a little bit inside out.
So if you've been trying to shallow that club out, get from the inside, you've been trying to swing more out to the right, which we all know doesn't work. And I'll get to that here in a second. And the reasons why, if you've been trying to do that, that means that your path would be a little bit inside out or a little bit to the right.
Squaring the clubface or having the clubface close to the path means that every single time when you swing, as you hit this golf ball, if you're swinging a little bit inside out or swinging a little bit to the right, the face will either be pointing the direction you're swinging or close to that. And that's the first step.
You see, we want to get this face really close to the path. So that you can feel what a square clubface and a closed clubface feels like. And then, and only then, are we going to be able to start swinging to the right and getting the path to the right. Now there's a two step process to make this automatic.
I'm going to go over. Step number one is teaching you what the biggest possible hook could be. And then we're going to tone it down from there with step number two. So the first piece of that, we're going to teach the biggest hook. I'm going to get the club face as closed as possible when you're hitting a golf ball.
And then I'm going to get the path or the direction that you're swinging as inside out or as far to the right as possible while you're hitting it. And it's going to create this massive hook. So if you've ever seen Tiger Woods hit one of those 60 or 70 yard hooks in the clinics, and you think, man, I wonder how he's doing that.
It doesn't matter if you've been playing golf a day or if you've been playing golf for 40 years. I'm going to teach you exactly how to do that. It's a very simple way of doing it. So first, let's get that club face closed. That's the first step. We can't do anything until we get that. The way we're going to do that is if I hold this club up in front of my body, the leading edge is the bottom or the front edge of the club here.
If that's straight up and down like this, that would be a square face, assuming that we're going to be swinging toward our target. So if I just set the club straight up like this, this would be square. This would be about 45 degrees closed. And then if the leading edge is pointing toward the ground, or the club face is pointing directly down to the ground, that would be 90 degrees closed.
I want you to set this club about 45 degrees closed, or meaning that the leading edge of this club is at this angle right here. Now, the great thing about this, you don't have to think at all. You just follow what I'm telling you to do. And by the end of it, Without having to think one bit, you can even do this on the range, play this video, and you're going to be able to cure your slice forever, permanently fix it.
So 45 degrees closer and set it down to the club and here's the, or to the ball. And here's the important part. I don't want you to take your grip and close the club face 45 degrees. I want you to close the club face 45 degrees without taking your grip first. Set the club face down to the ball. With it closed like that, the shaft straight up and down, and then we're going to take our grip.
So my grip feels normal, but my club face is really, really closed here. Now, we're going to make about, we're going to make exactly 10 practice swings, pausing at impact. So I'm going to pause, I'm going to get my weight to my left. I'm going to let my hips open up just like I would in a normal golf swing, and I want to pause and I'm going to set my club behind this golf ball as I pause at impact, and I want to make sure that the club face is still 45 degrees closed.
What I don't want to do is grip the club like this, set up to it like that, and then make a swing where I kind of lean my hands in front, open up the face, and all of a sudden it went from that 45 degrees closed to now wide open. We're going to do 10 practice swings pausing at impact just like this. 45 degrees closed on each one, just a little half back swings, shift your weight like you would in a normal golf swing and then practice it being closed.
I'm not going to do all 10 reps here. You just repeat that 10 times. Now, step number two, we're going to move this golf ball out of the way. I'm going to pause 10 times at impact. And then right after impact, I'm going to pause when the club face is parallel to the ground. And this club face should now be pointing dead down straight at the ground.
So if I go toward the camera here, club face closes address. I'm going to pause at impact, close just like we practiced, and then pause when the club face, or the club shaft is parallel to the ground. Club face is now pointing directly down at the ground. Ten more reps. Pausing at impact, pausing there. Now the third piece of this, we're going to do ten reps where we take out the pause.
So, 45 degrees closed, set up here, I'm going to make a little half back swing, and finish with the club parallel to the ground, and I'll make sure the club face is pointing directly down to the ground. So, essentially, when I'm doing these swings, if I imagine there was a ball there, my club face is pointing at my golf bag over here.
Now, if I make a swing, what my mind would visualize while I'm making this swing, if I'm doing this correctly, is I'm going to hit this golf ball. My clubface is not only so close, but it's closing even more that's coming through. So basically my clubface is really close to the impact, and it's turning on over and closing even more until the clubface is directly down to the ground.
So not only is it really close to the impact, it's closing even more. And I would feel like in my mind's eye, that if I hit a golf ball doing this, It would come off, hit that golf bag there. And if there was more room, not only would it shoot off that way, it would hook even more. So it's going dead left and hooking even more than that.
Just a low hook to the left. Now for this drill, you're going to want to use a nine iron. And the reason is we're going to hook it so much. You won't be able to get anything else into the air unless you're using about a nine iron. So I don't know if my radar is going to pick this up. Some of them has, some of them hasn't.
This is so much different than a normal golf shot. The radar just doesn't quite know what to expect. So let's repeat it again. I did my 10 pausing. I did my 10 pausing with the parallel follow through. I did my 10 without pausing, visualizing in my mind this hook that would go into my golf bag and go away to the left.
I'm just going to recreate that same thing for 10 more shots, little swings like this, actually hitting a golf ball. So club face 45 degrees closed. I'm going to set up to it. Re grip, make a little half back swing, a half follow through, and each one of these, here's the big key if you want this to work, not only do I have to hook it a ton, I have to hold my follow through where my club's parallel to the ground and the face has to be pointing down to the ground.
I don't want you to set up closed, do your swing and all of a sudden the club face looks like this and I've held it off, that's going to bring the slice back in. We've got to get that club face toward the ground if this is going to work. And trust me, it will work, you'll be hitting some massive hooks at first.
And then we're going to tone that down to a nice, tight little draw. So let's try it out here. I may hit that wall there. If I do this correctly, not quite the wall. See, my club face is pointing down the ground. I was lucky enough that it did read this one. And I'm telling you when I say 45 degrees closed, I really mean 45 degrees closed.
If you look at this ball, my, uh, my club direction or a face to the path. My club was 47. 4 degrees left relative to the path. So I was basically swinging a little bit inside out and my club face was actually closed a little more than 45 degrees, 47. 4 degrees closed. So I really am getting this close. You see the ball shot dead to the left.
If you're on a driving range doing this, which you should be, go all the way to the right side of the driving range. Don't do this on the left side of the driving range to shoot off it out of bounds immediately. Go all the way to the far right end of the driving range. That way when you hook it, If I start out on the right side of the range, it's going to hook all the way over to the left side of the range.
I won't lose every single one of these golf balls. If you can't do that, just turn your target way to the right and you'll hook it into the middle of the range. But that's a little, not quite as easy to do on your alignments. All right. So that's piece number one. And like I said, you're probably thinking right now, what in the heck, why would this possibly help my golf game?
All I'm doing here is hitting these humongous hooks. Well, that's the first piece of, until I can get that ball to really hook. It doesn't make any sense to swing out to the right. Now, if I can get that ball to really hook, I'm going to train my body to swing out to the right, and I'm going to hit some massive, massive snap hooks.
Then we're going to tone it down very easily at the end. So now I'm so closed with this, I'm going to do that same swing again, but now I'm going to add that swing to the right. So the ball is going to start toward the target and then have a big draw. So, here's the next step. I have a alignment rod here down, just to give you a frame of reference of what straight is.
I'm going to go ahead and turn this alignment rod 45 degrees inside out. What I mean by that is, if this is my target, this direction, straight ahead, this would be 45 degrees to the right. This would be 90 degrees to the right or perpendicular to it there. I'm putting this alignment stick 45 degrees to the right.
I'm now going to take my shoulders and I'm going to put them over, put my shirt buttons over my right toe. So I'm basically taking my shoulders and I'm closing them until basically I imagine like I'm setting up to a golf ball here and I'm swinging down this line. So my weight will feel like it's on my right foot.
This isn't a real golf swing. Again, just like this, we're practicing the extremes. Shoulders are way closed. My weight and my shirt buttons are over my right toe. I feel like everything's on my right foot, and then from there I'm going to do the same thing. Forty five degrees close with the clubface, forty five degree, er, uh, uh, perpendicular to the ground with the clubface pointing to the ground on the finish.
And I'm going to swing. I'm actually going to make a little divot. Imagine I put this golf ball over here, and from my perspective, it looks like my golf ball is right in front of my right foot. I'm imagining that's where I'd be hitting a golf ball. I'm going to move that out of the way, though, just so I can make some practice swings.
And I'm going to swing down this line of the stick for ten swings. So one, again, the big key here, face to the ground as I fall through. I'm going to go ahead and do ten of them. Half backswing, half fall through. Now from there, I'm going to go ahead and hit a shot like this. So I'm going to go ahead and play the ball.
I'm going to set up all crazy to the right with my shoulders like I just had there. And I'm going to move the ball to where it feels comfortable. So if you're looking from face on to me, that ball is going to be like way in the back of my stance. And that's just because the only way I can get my path that much inside out is I have to have the ball back here.
Obviously, if I had the ball way up here on my front foot and I was this close with my shoulders, well, there's no way for me to even hit this golf ball. It has to be on the back foot. So again, I'm teaching the extremes. This is why it's easier to play a draw off your right foot. But if I was going to play a fade or I was going to come and swing this way.
The ball would have to be way up here on my left foot. Again, we're going way to the extreme. Trust me in this process. Just do exactly what I say. You don't have to think about it at all. Just do what I say. So put the ball about 5 6 inches to the right of your right foot. I'm going to turn my shoulders until I feel like I'd be able to swing the direction of the stick.
And then I'm going to do the exact same thing that I did. 45 degrees close at the club face. As I come through the fall through, club face toward the ground, and I'm going to hit another one. This is going to be a big time hook. Hopefully the radar will pick this up. I may actually have to move, I'm going to move my position here a little bit so I'm more in line with the radar and it'll, it'll be sure that it picks it up.
So I'm just going to change my body alignments here. There we go. I'm going to be able to swing way to the right. 45 closed. I'm going to really release it in the follow through. There we go. I wish I'd picked that one up that started toward the target. That would have been a massive snap hook. Let me try a few more.
Again, this is so different than what a radar is used to picking up. It probably thinks something's going wrong, which if you were playing like this, there would be something going wrong, but we'll show you how to use it in a second.
There we go. So for a nine iron, that is a low quick hook. Let me see if I can get one A little bit more movement on it. So I'm gonna swing a little harder. It doesn't always look as big of a curve on the screen as it is, but for a nine iron, that's really changing a lot. So you see the spin axis. That means the direction of the ball is tilted.
33 degrees spin axis. That means the ball is almost sideways like this, the way that it's spinning. So big time hook spin. I'm gonna swing a little harder just so it curves a little bit more. You can see it on the screen. Let's try it out here.
Oh, it doesn't want to read them. The ball flight is too crazy for it. Let's go one more and then we'll start to tone this down and get it to where we want to be at the end, which is going to be a nice tight draw where you won't even be able to hit a fade if you wanted to. All right, so let's go again.
One more final time here.
There we go. So that's a big hook on a nine iron, really slinging it in there again, 26 degrees left with the path that ball started to the right. It'd be like one that started toward the right side of the green when a sling all the way across it to the left. And again, that's why you have to hit a nine iron, because if you were to use a lower lofty club, it just wouldn't get off the ground.
Now what we're going to do is we're gonna do two simple changes to make this a power draw. Okay. It's where I guarantee it'll curve from right to left every single time. Let's go ahead and set the alignment stick up square again. And what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna take this 45 degree closed club.
I'm going to sit down to the ball. I'm going to grip it with a normal grip now. So the club face is 45 degrees closed and I'm going to make one very simple change. I'm going to lean my hands in front until the club face is square. So for example, the more shaft lean, the more I have my hands leading the way.
The more that wants to open the club face, and I'm going to do that until the face is square. And that's going to be my new setup position. So again, very extreme. 45 closed. Re grip it. So I've got a very, some people call it a very strong grip. Kind of like a Sergio Garcia. Then I'll lean my hands in front and my face is now square at address.
I'm still going to feel like as I do this, the club face is going ahead and releasing and the toe of the club is down to the ground as I go through the follow through. Let's try that out. So 45 closed. Now, I'm going to get my hands in front and I'm just going to feel like I make a normal swing and let that club face turn on over and let's see what the ball flight does.
There we go. Nice big draw. So for me, I'm used to drawing it. That ball is going to want to turn over from right to left. From there, if the ball goes a little too far to the left, like that, all I'm going to do is feel a little bit of what I did with my shoulders. I'm going to play the ball, maybe a ball back in my stance.
I'm going to feel like my shoulders are just a little bit to the right, and I'm going to make that same swing. So I set up with it with a closed grip. Square up the face. I'm going to feel like my body gets turned a little more this way. I'm swinging a little bit more out to the right. Again, I had that club 45 degrees to the right.
That's exaggerated. We're just going to feel like maybe 5 degrees, 10 degrees to the right. Until that ball starts to the right and then draws back.
There we go. And that one started barely to the right and drew back. You can see how much power you get from this. I hit that 9 iron 172 yards carry because it's such a heavy hit. when I'm de lofting it that much with the hands in front. Now, you're going to tone this down until you get the perfect amount of draw for you.
So for me, I'm already used to playing a draw. These are curving quite a bit. I want to tone that down a little bit. All I'm going to do, instead of closing the clubface 45 degrees, I'm going to close it, let's say half that, 20 degrees. Set up with it 20 degrees closed. Lean the hands in front until the club face is square.
This feels, basically for me, this feels pretty much like a normal setup position. My hands are in front, club face is square. And then all I'm going to feel like as I come on through, still let that club face kind of roll and feel like it's going toward the ground in my fall through.
There we go. And that one started a little bit out to the right and barely drawing back. If you look at this black tracer on the ground, you can see how that's starting to curve back. That's the perfect amount of draw. Now I'm just going to fine tune it even more by feeling like a little more to the right with my shoulders and start it more to the right.
That stick being a little bit more this way inside out. A little more to the left if I want to start it to the left. So basically what I've taught myself here is that's a great amount of draw. I want the club face this closed and then when I set up to it and square up the face, I've gotten my perfect grip.
I've gotten my perfect, you know, way of releasing the club. And then from there I'm just going to adjust a little more to the right. I'm going to tilt my shoulders this way. a little less to the right. I'm going to feel like I'm more square with my shoulders. So for me, I feel like I can set up fairly square with my shoulders.
I got my good grip square face. Now I'm just gonna go ahead and let it release. And this should be a nice tight draw going back toward the middle of the fairway. There we go. Hit that one really nice. And that's exactly what I ended up with. So that ball barely drew, went toward my target. And that's how you calibrate it in.
So step one, close the face crazy amount, get that ball screaming to the left. Step two, ball back in your stance, swing out to the right until you can get that ball going to the right and really screaming back, big hooks. Step number three, we're going to tone that down. Little less close with the face until you get the perfect amount of draw.
And if the ball is starting to the right or the left, a little more to the right with the shoulders, a little less to the right with the shoulders until you get the ball to start where you want it to start. That's how you tone it in. Now there's one more piece to this to really bring it home. This is very similar to what we talked about in the 20 minute shallowing fix.
You see a lot of things that fix a slice and get that big draw going are the same things that will shallow out your club. So if you're a member of Top Speed Golf, go ahead and click on the instruction tab, 20 minute shallowing fix, and I'm going to teach you how to get that club from the inside so that this will be even easier.
You see, a lot of times players will come down, they'll get this club steeper, and yes, they'll be able to close the club face. And get that ball shooting off to the left. They'll be able to swing more to the right. But again, the club shaft is so steep, it feels like we're fighting the club face the entire way.
I want you to get that club face shallowed out, the club shallowed out, so that the momentum is coming from the inside, the face is wanting to release, and you don't feel like you're fighting the club. So here, yes, we got the ball to turn over from right to left, time after time. But it may still feel like it's not effortless going to the 20 minute shallowing fix, shallowing out that club, working on those drills here, the perfect compliment to this.
That's when it's going to become automatic. And man, it really helps a ton. I've heard tons of positive feedback in there. Players have never shouted out getting that club to shout out on plane and playing a whole heck of a lot more consistent. So if you remember top speed golf head over the 20 minute shallowing fix right now, I can't wait to see you there and show you a few more secrets to get that perfect swing plane.
Let's go and get started.