Rotate - Cure your slice

Condensed here I am here sharing with you some of the most effective ways in which I work with students to eliminate any tendency to slice the ball, the key being to replace that weak, cutty action with a powerful rotary swinging motion that maximises your clubhead speed and distance.

And this fundamental action of the hands, wrists and forearms through the critical moments post-impact and beyond to the finish is something I really urge you serious golfers to think about and work on. The two exercises you see here are among my particular favourites, for the simple reason both quickly introduce you to feelings that will be totally new to anyone who habitually slices the ball with an out-to-in swing path.

The slow motion drill is one you can rehearse in between hitting shots on the range, the key being that you feel the sensation of the left forearm rotating and the left wrist hingeing up as it should in a natural release. Trapping a small ball between your elbows and keeping it there as you work on this same critical area of the swing immediately after impact encourages the long extension of the arms and the correct rotation of the wrists – any tendency to splay your elbows and the ball falls out. Together these drills can help you improve the quality of your release for more speed, better ball striking and more distance.

Identifying with the correct release of the hands, arms and club can help you to eliminate this common problem.

The ‘chicken-wing’, where the arms fail to straighten, the elbows are seen to splay apart and the club is ‘held off’.

This not only slows the clubhead dramatically through impact but also contributes to the slicing action across the ball.

In contrast, rotating the right forearm and extending the arms, as you see here (below & above) maximises your speed and squares the clubface.