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re: Question from a beginner
Posted on 10/6/17 at 2:27 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
Posted on 10/6/17 at 2:27 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
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.
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.
This post was edited on 10/6/17 at 2:29 pm
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Posted on 10/6/17 at 3:52 pm to The Johnny Lawrence
Some good advice itt... grip is key. Coming from baseball, your golf grip should feel unnatural/uncomfortable at first. If it feels natural/comfortable, chances are you aren't holding the club correctly 
make sure it is your fingers that are holding the club in your left hand and not your palm.
As for the swing, I agree that in general you need to translate the idea of hitting a baseball in the opposite direction into your golf swing. This is hard for a lot of people especially coming from baseball bc your mind doesn't think the club will naturally square the ball swinging this way... thus you see the over the top swing motions which end up with a huge slice.... trust the process and the clubface to square, don't force it to.
make sure it is your fingers that are holding the club in your left hand and not your palm. As for the swing, I agree that in general you need to translate the idea of hitting a baseball in the opposite direction into your golf swing. This is hard for a lot of people especially coming from baseball bc your mind doesn't think the club will naturally square the ball swinging this way... thus you see the over the top swing motions which end up with a huge slice.... trust the process and the clubface to square, don't force it to.
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