Why does everyone have the exact same problem when it comes to irons versus drivers? Imagine the path of your club head like a hula hoop. It has a natural lean to accommodate the distance between your golf ball and your hands.
That means when you imagine that hula hoop, you have to imagine it tilted towards your body. When you swing your iron, you hit the ball before you hit the low point. This means your club head is maintains whatever aim you set up through the moment of impact. In other words, all you have to do is aim and swing through. But your driver is different. This is why you have a much easier time hitting straight golf shots with your irons.
You need a driver setup that makes it easier to hit up on the ball and accommodates for the change in direction. At the moment of impact, you want your lower body more forward toward the target and your upper body leaning away from the target.
Think about bumping your lead hip forward and as you keep your head back. This puts you in the perfect position to hit up on the ball so you get the height and distance you want for a long draw. Now, the best way to make sure you find that position at the moment of impact is to find a similar position at setup. AS you settle in at the tee:. When you start from this position, the natural momentum of your backswing and downswing bring you back here in time for impact.
If you are a right-handed golfer, you want to get a slightly rightward aim to fix your golf slice. But, as you now know, the upward motion of your club head takes you just slightly off course as you swing through. To prepare for this, aim a bit more to the right in your setup. When you take your golf stance, adjust your feet. You probably stand with your feet square to the target. For your driver shots, I want you to try stepping your lead foot just a tiny bit forward, towards the golf ball. Now your feet are directing your swing path slightly to the right of the target.
This helps you get that nice, controlled draw. In fact, just taught it to one of my tour professionals this last week. Instead, hover it in the air right behind your golf ball. It might sounds too simple to be a real solution, but try it for yourself. See if it works. In my experience, it always does. Was this advice easy to follow?
If you fall into this category, you can make an adjustment in your set up to make it work today. You can take your back foot and drop it back into a closed position as if your lower body is a bit turned away from the target. This will immediately create effectively more flexibility and allow you to get the club into a more powerful position in your backswing and help to improve downswing path and more distance.
If you play golf from the side other than your dominant arm this can often lead to a ball that slices. I learned this when working for Mike Adams and it has served many of my students very well. When you play golf from the side other than your dominant side, that lead arm is so strong is tends to delay natural release of the club face on the forward swing.
You can adjust for this by taking your trail hand grip and turn in under more to be able to see your finger nails. Do you hit most of your clubs straight to a nice draw, but slice your driver? I see this all the time and most often it is a ball position issue and understanding how your shoulders should be slightly different with your driver than when the ball is on the ground.
When you hit your driver your ball position should be more forward. As your move your ball more forward it is also important that you allow your shoulders to tilt back and away from the target. Your lead shoulder should get higher and your back shoulder lower. This will allow your shoulder line to match your body lines and directly affect your swing path as well as allow the club face to have time to get back to square at impact.
So little of the time does the club head spend on the target line and golfers who seek to do this will often result in a power-robbing slice. Going back to the concept that a golf swing is circular.
Set your right-hand grip to compliment the left. The "V" formed by your right index finger and thumb should also point to your right shoulder.
Position the ball off the inside of your front foot, about even with your heel, to promote an upward strike of the golf ball. Striking the ball on the upswing will help promote a straighter flight and greater distance. Most slices with the driver result from a downward angle of attack, which produces weak distance and a slicing spin.
Set up to the ball with your head a few inches behind the ball to help promote an upward strike. With your head behind the ball and your right hand grip below the left, you'll have a natural tilt in your shoulders at address. The proper shoulder tilt at address will promote a good shoulder turn on the backswing.
Your shoulder turn and backswing are complete once you get the left shoulder under your chin. If you are doing this incorrectly the cub will wrap around your body producing the pull slice. As I mentioned, aiming left only makes the slice miss even more to the right. Instead of aiming farther to the left, try to tee off the right side of the box. This will give yourself more fairway and room to work the ball off the left side of the fairway or rough.
Your clubface at impact determines if you slice, draw or hit the ball straight. The higher swing speed and longer shaft of a driver make squaring up this club the hardest. Again, if you are hitting a monster slice your club face MUST be open at impact. You need to work on squaring up the face sooner on your downswing. Step 1: With a driver, hover your driver roughly a foot off the ground. This will naturally level your swing and help promote the inside to outside swing path. It will also help you feel the clubface turning over at impact.
Step 2: On your practice swings you want to feel yourself squaring the clubface roughly 2 or 3 feet behind the golf ball before impact. It will feel like your left hand is squaring up and turning the clubface. Ideally, this will help promote the swing path to the right and squaring the face at impact. This drill will help you create a slight draw if done correctly.
By switching to the right equipment and using these drills you can begin to change your swing. If this miss has plagued your game for some time, understand that it might be overnight but it is absolutely fixable in the long run.
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