| I used to golf with a friend who had a wicked slice | | | | Should you be embarrassed at all because you don't |
| and really needed some help with how to cure a slice. | | | | know how to cure a slice? |
| He would aim his T-shots way left, and usually wind | | | | Maybe that's what we need a little more |
| up in the rough on the right. We were either looking | | | | of...embarrassment on the golf coarse. If your a |
| for his ball, waiting for him to trek across hill and dale | | | | consistent slicer, does that embarrass you at all? |
| to hit his next shot, waiting for another group to play | | | | Does that stimulate you to a greater effort...to figure |
| so that he could wander out into their fairway to hit | | | | out how to cure a slice? To me, the most |
| his ball, etc. etc. | | | | embarrassing thing would be the whole idea of doing |
| We constantly felt pushed by the group behind us | | | | the same thing over and over again and expecting |
| because it took us so long to chase his shots. So you | | | | different results. You know what they call that don't |
| tended to hurry your shots, hurry your putts, and | | | | you. Insanity. |
| everybody's game was negatively affected by our | | | | It really is sad to see someone go from being happy |
| friend the slicer. | | | | go-lucky on the first tee to total frustration by the |
| Jack Nicklaus wrote in his book "Golf My Way", "The | | | | fourth or fifth tee. And the game of golf becomes |
| better I have become, the more I have embarrassed | | | | an instrument of torture instead of one of pleasure. |
| myself by my failures; and the more I have | | | | Slicing your shots can cause a lot of frustration and |
| embarrassed myself, the more I have been goaded | | | | embarrassment. It's an affliction that effects the |
| into trying to develop greater skills. Of this I am | | | | majority of golfers at some point. And yet it's |
| presently certain: When failure ceases to embarrass | | | | something that can be fixed fairly simply. Don't let |
| me, and thus to stimulate me to greater efforts, my | | | | your slice bring you embarrassment and frustration. |
| day will be done and I shall quit playing golf in public." | | | | Learn how to cure a slice today. |