Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "The #1 Reason Your Grip Is Causing Your Slice and How to Fix It"

In today's lesson...

Discover how to easily use the palm of your hand to instantly fix your slice.

Plus, find out the reason why trying to fix your slice by changing your grip didn't work in the past...

...and how one simple change with your club shaft in the downswing will make it work this time around.

Once you understand this concept, the swing gets a lot easier.

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:36

Video Transcription:

Fixing a slice can be really easy, but it all starts with the grip and getting in the right posture. So let me go ahead and jump right into this. A lot of times when players struggle with a slice, they'll have what I call a weak palm grip. Now, what this means is the palms of my hand are too much straight up and down.

So if I set up this golf ball and I imagine my palms are facing this way as I take my grip, that's a fairly weak. You'll notice how the V between the thumb and the forefinger, I always think that's a little bit confusing, is more toward my chin. I really think that that's, that's a little tougher to visualize than where is my palm?

So as I grab this club, is my palm facing this way or is it facing more on top or underneath? So anything that's vertical or more underneath would be a very weak position. The ball's gonna wanna slice. The reason for that is, is if I take my palm and put it more under the club like. And then I take my grip.

You can see my hand is turned to the left quite a bit, and now it's very difficult to turn it anymore to the left. So even if I turn it as much as I can, I'm fully maxed out. Look, the face is just barely square. This feels really comfortable from that position. And now the face is 45 degrees open. It's gonna be a big, massive slice.

So here's the first piece of that. Take the palm of your hand as though you're about to grip the club. Go ahead and set up to set up with the club as it would be in an dress position. , and I'm just gonna hold the tip of it with my right index finger. And then from there I'm gonna take my palm and put it about 45 degrees to the right.

So imagine there's a plane of glass or something that's sitting here at this angle. My palm is gonna be on that angle. Then from there, I'm gonna go ahead and grip the club that way. Now that seems a little bit on the extreme, the stronger type grip, but I would rather see somebody grip it too much. This.

too much with their palm on top or a stronger palm than the other way. If you're struggling slicing, it's very easy to back off that a little bit. Now, the second piece here is we gotta make sure that it's in the fingers. So if you make a hook, again, I think we get way too complicated with this. Let's make it really simple.

Make a hook with your hand like this. That's that's where the golf club sets is in that. Then you just close your hand on the, on the glove. So if I have that hook here, now again, if I put the hook straight up and down with my palm, straight up and down, that's a fairly weak position. I'm gonna go ahead and take that palm and turn it 45 degrees to the right, roughly 45.

Now you can see that hook would be more this type of an angle, right? So my hook, instead of being straight up and down is more turned like that and I go ahead and take the club. Gripping just like that. You're gonna see that my thumb. There's these little, uh, arrows on top of my grip. Doesn't matter what we have on your grip, but if that's 12 o'clock or facing straight up and down, my thumb is now gonna be positioned at about one 30 on that clock face.

So kind of halfway between 12 o'clock and three o'clock on the right. So now we got a good strong grip. This makes it a lot easier. To release that club face. But there's still one thing that happens here. No matter how strong my grip is, I could always just hold it open and still slice some more. And a lot of times people have this idea that if they get more lag or they do other things that they're trying to do in their swing, like shallow the club from the inside or have more lag or get their hands more in front and.

That's gonna keep the club really open. Well, this is where momentum comes in there. I wanna feel like the momentum of this club is releasing all the way through. So lemme give you an example of this. When we think that we're gonna have more lag and block it or slice it, we tend to stand up out of our posture, roll our forearms to try to square that face, and now all of a sudden, not really the best swing, even though I did square it up.

Here's what I want you to feel like. Go ahead and get this club in a lag position. A good shallow from the inside lag position, so the club shaft is parallel to the ground and the downswing the club head instead, or the the club shaft, instead of pointing toward the target is now from the inside. It's in here.

This is the position the pros are coming from. And now from here, I can keep my hands in front this entire time. I can have a lot of lag and release on out in front, and I can have the club face closing the whole. . So all I'm trying to say here, and this is a big sticking point. I can have my hands in front of the club head and I could be releasing this club.

I could be, the momentum of this club can be releasing. I don't have to kick the whole shaft forward to close the club face. So what most players are doing is they never have this feeling of getting the momentum of the club turning down. Look at the face. That's releasing, that's the release as I'm rotating through the shot.

So that's gonna square up the face. So that's piece number two. Number one, take your stronger grip, strong palm, take your palms more like this on the club. Number two, when I have lag and I'm from the inside, I'm letting the clubhead turn on over as that's happening. So let's go ahead and give that a try.

Let's see if I can hit a nice little draw.

There we go. Started that one out to the right, you can see us drawing back. So if you look at the black tracer on the bottom of the screen, you can see how it's turning over from right to left. Now it feels like it's almost impossible for me to not get that club turning over from right to left. If I get my good grip, my good power draw grip, and from there I get the momentum of the club releasing this.

so it's turning on over. Now, what I'm talking about here with this is essentially the move, or what I call the move in the top speed golf system. So if you go to the instruction tab, if you're remember, click on instruction, go to the top speed golf system and go to the move section. And that's exactly what we're doing.

So what most players will do is they feel like when they get the club from the inside, They cannot square up the face. They've never been shown the right way to square up the face and instead stand up and flip. Well, I have a video there called the tennis racket drill, and we talk about the right way to square this face up like the pros are doing so that the momentum of this club is releasing.

That's a great video to build on what we did here. So once you finish this video, hit on over to the move section. Watch video 1.1, 1.2, and pay specific attention to video 1.3, the tennis racket drill, because once you do that, You, there's no chance of slicing one. You're gonna feel like every single one is a draw right to left.

Turning on over. You're gonna feel like the momentum of the clubs is kicking out, almost wrapping around the outside of the golf ball and releasing every single time. So check out that video right now. I can't wait to see you over there in the move section and video 1.3.