Curing Your Golf Slice

Curing your golf slice may not be as simple a task as you think. Many golfers have given the game up because they could not cure their golf slice, and I am pretty sure they tried very hard before coming to that difficult decision. To be successful you have to approach the problem the right way and take the right advice.

So how would you go about curing your golf slice? Assuming you know that it is cause by an open club face at strike, how would you prevent that from happening? It's easy to change your grip, and move to a tighter configuration where you are gripping the club further round in a clockwise direction. This is certainly one way of curing your golf slice, and it works in very many cases. But what if it doesn't.

I am sure these poor guys that eventually gave up tried that. It is, after all, the first remedy that anyone with a golf slice tries. All the books recommend it and the websites give it as one of the main causes of a golf slice. So what if it fails? What if curing your golf slice is not as simple as a change in grip?

Well, the other major reason for a slice is swinging across the ball, from right to left. Not from left to right as might seem logical, given that that is the direction the ball flies, but right to left. What this does is to open the club face because you are still trying to hit the ball straight down the fairway. So imagine it. Your club face is pointing straight to the target, but your club is swinging across it to the left.

The result is a clockwise spin, just as if your club face was not square. This spin swings the ball out to the right and you have a slice. Curing your golf slice, therefore, involves fixing your swing so that it goes straight through the ball, not sideways. Once you have achieved this, strengthen your grip till your club is square to the ball on impact, and your slice will be gone.

Easy to say, but not so easy to achieve!