| Does your golf ball look more like a boomerang | | | | slice is that in attempting to get the golf ball airborne |
| moving through the air than a golf shot? Are you | | | | they try to scoop it up off the ground rather than |
| tired of spending more time in the woods than most | | | | hitting down on the ball and letting the golf club's loft |
| eagle scouts? If so, then you have found the right | | | | do the work. The golf ball should always be hit while |
| place to finally cure that nasty golf slice. | | | | the golf club is still descending. Most people don't |
| Hitting a golf slice, or for a right handed player hitting | | | | know this but a PGA pro's divot actually starts after |
| the golf ball as so the flight path is moving to the | | | | the golf ball has already been struck. |
| right in the air, is and always has been the most | | | | The next major swing fault which causes the |
| common mistake for amateur golfers throughout the | | | | dreaded golf slice for most people is lunging at the |
| history of the game. The reason for the golf slice | | | | ball and moving your head ahead of the ball at impact |
| being so common is that for the most part amateurs | | | | all while trying to hit the ball farther which then leads |
| are attempting to accomplish other things with the | | | | the the face of the club being open when striking the |
| golf ball; such as getting the ball airborne, but going | | | | ball. If you will address the ball with your head well |
| about it in the completely wrong way. The final | | | | forward of the golf ball then you will be able to feel |
| outcome is the common golf slice. The golf swing is a | | | | just how this will jam the ball right. |
| dependently intertwined motion very similar to a line | | | | The third main swing fault that causes most people |
| of dominos collapsing. Every movement in the golf | | | | to slice the golf ball is having a weak grip. What I |
| swing then causes a completely dependent future | | | | mean by this is that the lines which are formed when |
| movement based on that prior motion and so on | | | | you grip the golf club between your index finger and |
| down the line. This domino effect can work out for | | | | thumb on each hand are pointed at of close to your |
| the good if you know what you are doing, but for | | | | chin. If you think about it your hands have neutral |
| most of us it ends up in lost golf balls, lost money, | | | | positions. Attempt this on your own to comprehend |
| and frustration. So let us now get to the bottom of | | | | the idea. Stand tall and lay your hands by your side |
| why you are hitting your slice so we can fix that slice | | | | as they naturally fall. What you are now seeing is |
| permanently. | | | | that naturally the top side of your hands basically |
| There are two main reasons that cause the golf ball | | | | face forward. Now try to turn your hands to the left |
| to slice. The first is hitting the ball with an open club | | | | or right and then when turned relax them again. |
| face, and the second is cutting across the ball with | | | | What you will see is that as soon as they are relaxed |
| your club face from the outside of your body | | | | they return to that same natural or neutral position |
| moving inward towards your body. These two faults | | | | again. This is the reason that a weak grip will lead to |
| are at the very end of the chain reaction which is | | | | the ball being struck with an open club head. |
| the golf swing, but not necessarily what you should | | | | Inherently in those positions your hands will open the |
| be directly focused on fixing. When correcting your | | | | club face up through impact. |
| golf swing, you can not simply focus on the impact | | | | Lastly, the final major cause of most people's golf |
| of the club face to the golf ball, even though that is | | | | slice is that they are swinging the club from the |
| important to start to comprehend what you are | | | | outside to the inside. To explain this outside |
| doing wrong. For instance, saying that you are going | | | | movement in phrases that I have been using, it |
| to focus on not opening the club face at impact will | | | | means that your swing path is taking the golf club |
| not work in trying to fix your golf slice. In order to | | | | out and away from your body on the backswing and |
| fix your golf slice you must actually identify and | | | | then coming from the out towards your body on the |
| focus on the root of the problem which lies many | | | | downswing which will cut across the ball causing a |
| steps back in the line of dominos that is the golf | | | | golf slice. |
| swing. Now let's try to figure out what some of the | | | | Now since we have already made the root causes of |
| things may be that are causing you to hit that | | | | your golf slice evident, let's go ahead and lay out |
| dreaded golf slice. | | | | some ways to finally fix that slice forever. |
| The wide majority of amateurs hit a slice as a result | | | | Just visit The Golf Slice Doctor and get your |
| of four major swing faults. The first major swing | | | | prescription for better golf now! |
| fault committed by beginners which causes a golf | | | | |