re: Question from a beginner

I played baseball before I picked up golf. All my buddies who did the same thing fought a big slice, except for the super gifted athletes who are just blessed. But we will leave them out of this.

The difference between the swings is your hands at contact and weight shift. In baseball, you need to be in palm up, palm down at contact. Your weight needs to be 50/50. In golf, if your hands aren't square at contact, you'll slice. If you don't get to your front side, you'll slice. Doing both is death.

In golf, your palm side, palm side and your weight is closer to 75-85% front.

What I did was try to force myself to roll the ball into the 6 hole. I guess for you it'd be the 4 hole. I just rolled over it until I got used to squaring up the club face. Once you get out of the huge slice, it'll get much more comfortable and you won't feel like you're rolling over it.