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re: What was the key to fixing your driver slice when you started golfing?
Posted on 6/4/20 at 8:26 am to Blind Eye
Posted on 6/4/20 at 8:26 am to Blind Eye
I'm not really sure what I did because I haven't filmed it to compare, but I haven't sliced a drive in my last two rounds. My drives have actually been remarkably consistent on back 9's. All I can figure is that I'm keeping my body centered and really focusing on eliminating any type of sway, just turning back and up and coming down. I'm not even thinking on the downswing, just hitting the ball. Even hit a few baby draws yesterday
I played 18 yesterday and shot a 94. It's the first time I've kept score, and I left a ton of strokes on the table. I still hit awful awful shots every few holes on my approach, as in hitting an 8 iron from 140 out and the ball goes 40 yards type awful, or chunking a chip from the edge of the green and the ball goes 10 feet. Not to mention the 3 putts.
I played the back 9 by myself so got my money's worth on the 18th hole and hit 3 off the tee. All landed middle of the fairway within 10 yards of each other. Second shot was with my 3 wood, same thing. All withing 10 yards of each other, just off the green.
If I could only transfer that "warmed up" ability to the front 9 I think I could be somewhat decent.
I played 18 yesterday and shot a 94. It's the first time I've kept score, and I left a ton of strokes on the table. I still hit awful awful shots every few holes on my approach, as in hitting an 8 iron from 140 out and the ball goes 40 yards type awful, or chunking a chip from the edge of the green and the ball goes 10 feet. Not to mention the 3 putts.
I played the back 9 by myself so got my money's worth on the 18th hole and hit 3 off the tee. All landed middle of the fairway within 10 yards of each other. Second shot was with my 3 wood, same thing. All withing 10 yards of each other, just off the green.
If I could only transfer that "warmed up" ability to the front 9 I think I could be somewhat decent.
This post was edited on 6/4/20 at 8:28 am
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Posted on 6/4/20 at 9:40 am to Riseupfromtherubble
I had a terrible slice for years and finally rebuilt my swing this year. Some of the things I do are no-nos such as I'm all upper body. I'm averaging 270 and have gotten 300 yards occasionally out of a drive and it's going straight 90% of the time. I'm doing what works for me. Once I get the lower body involved, I go to slice city. Something I will probably take a lesson to fix. If you want to figure out if it's coming from your hips or from your upper body, remove the lower body out of it to isolate the source of the problem.
My swing thoughts when lining up for a drive is to put my weight on the back foot before I even get to swinging (probably a no-no), and I focus on keeping that weight over the back foot until I make contact. I'm basically taking the backswing lower body movement out of my swing. It confirms that my problem is in the lower body and not the upper body.
One thing that is absolutely proper is to focus on hitting the ball on the upswing and not on the downswing. It seems like a small change but if you focus on hitting the apex of your swing before striking the ball, and get your club coming up before striking the ball, it'll allow your hands to naturally come around and stop leaving the club face open.
The upswing only applies to driver. On irons, you want to hit down on the ball. That is another thing I changed this year and my iron strikes are WAY more consistent and go further.
94 for the first time keeping your score is respectful. Out of curiosity, do you take any mulligans while playing? When keeping score, do yourself a service and count 100% of your strokes even if you duff it 2' or slice it off into the abyss. When I first "broke 100", I was taking mulligans periodically. It made it hell on seeing progress even though I knew I was making progress and shooting the "same score". The progress was more in the way of not taking mulligans or counting drops. I didn't see it in the "score". I don't know you so this is absolutely not an accusation but something I see a lot of golf buddies do routinely. And I was guilty of it also. That third putt that "should have gone in" isn't the last stroke you count.
My swing thoughts when lining up for a drive is to put my weight on the back foot before I even get to swinging (probably a no-no), and I focus on keeping that weight over the back foot until I make contact. I'm basically taking the backswing lower body movement out of my swing. It confirms that my problem is in the lower body and not the upper body.
One thing that is absolutely proper is to focus on hitting the ball on the upswing and not on the downswing. It seems like a small change but if you focus on hitting the apex of your swing before striking the ball, and get your club coming up before striking the ball, it'll allow your hands to naturally come around and stop leaving the club face open.
The upswing only applies to driver. On irons, you want to hit down on the ball. That is another thing I changed this year and my iron strikes are WAY more consistent and go further.
94 for the first time keeping your score is respectful. Out of curiosity, do you take any mulligans while playing? When keeping score, do yourself a service and count 100% of your strokes even if you duff it 2' or slice it off into the abyss. When I first "broke 100", I was taking mulligans periodically. It made it hell on seeing progress even though I knew I was making progress and shooting the "same score". The progress was more in the way of not taking mulligans or counting drops. I didn't see it in the "score". I don't know you so this is absolutely not an accusation but something I see a lot of golf buddies do routinely. And I was guilty of it also. That third putt that "should have gone in" isn't the last stroke you count.
Posted on 6/4/20 at 9:43 am to Riseupfromtherubble
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I'm not really sure what I did because I haven't filmed it to compare, but I haven't sliced a drive in my last two rounds. My drives have actually been remarkably consistent on back 9's. All I can figure is that I'm keeping my body centered and really focusing on eliminating any type of sway, just turning back and up and coming down. I'm not even thinking on the downswing, just hitting the ball. Even hit a few baby draws yesterday
Sounds like you were probably swinging too hard and overcompensating by opening your stance to aim way left
Just got to the development the muscle memory to what you hit well.
My typical miss is a bad hook. It is almost always because how I lined up. Especially when I am not confident, I know I need to line straight and just swing my swing but if there is a house or water in the left I just love to put it there.
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