Why You Need This: In this video, "How to Stop Slicing and Hit a Beautiful Draw"...

You'll discover the TOP 3 things causing your slice.

(And I'll share with you one of my secrets you've probably never heard before!)

You're going to enjoy the really cool visuals...

So you can see exactly what's going on when you slice... or when you hit a draw.

Then we'll dive into fixing the 3 most common issues:

• Your grip
• Your visualization of the path and face angle
• Your spine at setup

Follow the exact steps I give you...

And you can kiss that big "banana ball" goodbye forever!

Watch this video now to diagnose your slice demon then fix it and start booming some drives!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 8:09

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back. I know a lot of you out there are losing big-time distance, and struggling with your golf swing as you’re coming slightly over the top, you’re moving right to left across the ball, and getting a little bit of a fade or a slice.

That really costs you a lot on your driver. Well, in today’s video we’re going to go over three things that are going to help you to get that nice, beautiful draw. Almost every single person I see that’s struggling with the fade, one of these three things are off.

I’ve probably got a secret also that you’ve never heard before, never maybe thought of it this way, as far as how we’re going to hit the golf ball.

Let’s go ahead and get started.

All right, so I’ve got my giant tennis ball, we’re going to pretend this is a golf ball for a second. Let’ go over first the path and how we want this to change.

I think this is a great visual, any time you can use a larger ball like this, it’s a little easier to get the concept of what we’re trying to do with the path and the club face as we’re coming through contact.

So if we’re hitting a slice, what we can imagine here is let’s imagine there’s a line coming straight down and splitting this tennis ball into two halves. So we have an outside and inside half.

When we’re hitting a slice, our club is traveling over to the outside half too early, and then we’re coming and going from right to left we’re moving to the inside half as we’re coming through the shot.

Now one thing that people often try to do to combat this, is to come more from the inside. You’ll hear somebody say, “Hit the inside of the ball.” That’s half right.

So we do want to eliminate that right to left motion coming through there, but what’s happening when you slice though, is your face is open. When my face is open, I’m actually making contact with the face on the side half of the ball.

So you can see my face is actually pointing out to the right as I’m swinging to the left. If I were to hit this ball, you can see how it puts a little bit of left to right spin on there, and that would be the shot that would hit a fade.

Now, if I want to combat this, I want to do it the right way, and I want to get that nice little draw on there, I will be swinging from the inside half of the ball to the outside half. But since my face is actually closed, it’s going to be making contact with the outside of the ball.

So my face is going to be pointing to the left as my path, or the direction that my club travels is out to the right.

When I’m hitting a golf ball, what I really want to imagine doing, is swinging out toward right field if I was playing baseball, but I want to visualize a point on the side of this ball.

I’m looking down at the ball, I want to visualize a point out here, and that’s where I actually want my golf club to make contact with this ball.

If we do that, that’s going to get a little bit of that right to left spin on the ball, we can see that started to rotate like that, that’s going to give us a draw, and we’re going to be able to hit those shots.

Now let’s go ahead, and let’s get into the grip and two other things that are going to help you to really get this down once and for all, and I’ve got some great drills or you to practice this.

So your grip is going to directly affect how you’re able to either close the face or to accidentally leave the face open. Again, like I talked about, if you’re hitting a slice what’s happening is as you’re coming through contact you’re moving from right to left across the ball, and your face is open.

We can see how this is angled back like this. Now that’s very, very common. If you’re looking at that no the ground, again I’m going outside to inside, and my face is actually contacting the inside part of the ball. My face is pointing out to the right.

Very often this will happen when we get our right hand too far on top of the club. Let’s pretend we use the same left-hand grip, and we get our right hand where the V between my thumb and my forefinger is pointed up toward my left shoulder.

Now all of a sudden, you’ll see my upper body is kind of tilted to the left like this, and it’s going to make it very easy because my hands are turned to the left this way, as I start to come down into contact, my club face is going to want to open up.

So if I relax my face is going to open up, that’s going to be that slice. What I want to make sure is if you’re struggling with the slice, overslicing the ball, you want to get that nice draw.

Let’s go ahead and grip it in the left hand first, and if you look at the index finger and my thumb, I’m going to have this turn slightly to my right.

I should be able to see at least a couple knuckles on my left hand, if I look at this V as I take an address, I’m going to have that coming up toward my right shoulder.

My right hand, I’m going to feel like instead of being more on top is more underneath the club. So I’m taking the palm of my hand, putting it more underneath, and that’s going to allow me to square up the face a little bit more easily.

If I have this correct, the V between my thumb and my forefinger of my right hand is going to be at the right shoulder, or just a little bit outside the right shoulder, and we can see now how that’s going to tilt my body away from the target a little bit.

So as I turn my hands, let’s go ahead and go extreme. As I turn my hands way to the right, or more under the right side, look what that does when I relax my hands. That’s going to start to close the club face.

If I do the opposite and I’m turned to the left and I come up, now I’m going to be opening the club face as I relax my hands.

So the more I get to the right, the easier it’s going to be to draw. I don’t want you to overdo that and get the hands way underneath, get my body way under the club, because then I can start to come in too shallow, or even hook the ball which we don’t want to do.

We don’t want to replace a slice with a hook, we just want to have that nice draw.

So check the lines and the forefingers, make sure those are correct. Then we’re going to sit back on top of this ball, and I want to visualize exactly what I did with the giant tennis ball there.

I want to visualize coming from the inside half, swing into the outside half, but I want you to pause at contact with your new grip if you were too weak or too far to the left.

I want you to pause at contact and make sure your club face is squared up to where you’re actually a little bit on the outside of the ball as you’re making contact. That will really start to get that ball turning from right to left if we do this in a full swing.

I’ve got one more tip for you, then we’ll go ahead and make a few swings and I’ll show you this in action.

All right, so this last piece is going to make it very easy. So we’ve talked about how the hands are going to g on the club. We’ve talked about where we want to end up to get the spin on the ball.

Now let’s talk about the body alignment that we’re going to need to be able to do that very consistently.

So again, like I talked about with people that are struggling with a little bit of a fade or slice, a lot of times the right hand is too far on top. Look at my shoulders and my upper body, how it’s kind of tilted to the left.

This sets my body up in a position where it’s easy to come outside in with my swing path. So if I could do that again, if I set up to the left, if I’m leaning this way with my spine, then I’m very easily going to be able to come outside in and have that chopping over the top slice type swing.

What I want to do is get spine tilt, and we go over this, this is one of our key fundamentals in the Top Speed Golf System that I go over on the website. But I want to make sure that my spine is tilted away from the target.

This is going to be a lot easier when I put my hands turned a little bit more turned to the right, as I mentioned before. Now you’re going to see at address, my spine is tilted slightly away.

Let’s go ahead and exaggerate that a little bit, to where you’re a little bit too much, you’re going to feel a little more weight on your right side, but I’m going to get my spine really turned away from the target for a couple practice swings.

You see when I do that, when I really get turned away, now that automatically puts my path coming more inside to outside, and if I turn the face as I’m doing this, that would essentially be a hook. We’re going to do that to a very small extent to get that little tiny draw.

So if I tie all this together, I’m going to get over the top of the golf ball, I want to make a lot of practice swings, I want to visualize coming inside out, very slightly, getting the face to be closed so it hits slightly on the outside of the ball.

Getting that spin on the golf ball like we talked about. I’m going to check my grip, and then lastly, I’m going to make sure my upper body and my hips are tilted slightly away from the target, and then I’m going to make a swing.

Go ahead and make about 100 practice swings focusing on these three key areas, and then you’ll be ready to go out to the course. Again, focus on the spin on every full swing.

There we go, had a nice little draw. Probably drew three or four yards right to left, pretty solid shot. You’re going to be able to do that repeatedly if you practice these three keys.

So good luck to you guys, work hard, I’ll see you all soon.