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A Quick Fix to Slicing (Not a Cure)

• Do not use your driver. Leave it at home. Drive with a three or four wood. The reduced slice with a three wood will more than make up for any distance lost by not using the driver.
• Dump your two and three iron. Don.t carry any irons in your bag longer than your four or five iron. Buy some utility woods. Buy a five wood and a seven wood. The utility woods have more loft than the irons they replace, so they put more backspin on the ball and slice less.
• Try the headcover drill. This drill will help you to stop cutting across the ball, swinging from outside-to-inside. It just takes a few minutes and it.s a great warm-up before a round.
• Move the ball back toward the middle of your stance. This will help you come at the ball from the inside. Playing the ball too far forward tends to open your shoulders causing an outside-to-inside swing path.
• Choke down on your clubs You might even consider buying thinner grips. When you choke down to the thinner part, the grip will sit more in your fingertips, which will increase your hand action, making it easier for your hands to get the clubface square.
• Try a warm-up swing with a narrow stance with the feet touching. This changes your normal turning and weight shift. See the Feet Together Drill. This drill will give you the feel of a proper release.
• Tee up on the right side of the tee and aim toward the left side of the fairway. This gives you the widest margin for error. It allows the ball the greatest space to slice back into play.
• Tee the ball up higher. Teeing the ball up higher makes it easier to come at the ball from the inside. Teeing the ball too low, encourages an outside-to-inside downward swing. Although it.s easier to hit from the inside, you have to be careful not to hit under the ball.
• Aim at the inside quarter of the ball.
• Review your setup and swing keys. Just developing a pre-shot routine to help you to setup properly each shot can help greatly.

Each of the above suggestions may help your slice improve a few percentage points. However, there is only one true way to find a cure for your slice. You have to invest the time and effort necessary to improve your golf swing, eliminating the fundamental swing faults causing your slice.