'Hamas' Jenkins |
04-12-2013 06:25 PM |
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Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess
(Post 9581359)
as someone who has an uncle that is a golf pro and a father who is a 3 handicap...
I'm absolutely ****ing baffled by how they are so damn good. I have tried to learn, and have excelled at times on the range...I feel like my swing is perfect.
But I just get ****ing worse with age. I just find golf to infuriating to play now. I have always excelled at sports so when I don't excel at something I get infuriated...but 3 years ago I started hitting my driver a consistent 250 and I hit it straight.
I played one round of golf with my dad that summer and he tweaked something, and his friend tweaked something...and now I'm all ****ed in the head...and for the first time in my life I slice the shit out of the ball and it's insane. It's unfixable. I used to pull the ball...now I slice it. I don't get it.
I am pretty weird though. I played baseball my whole life and couldn't bat right handed...I hit lefty, I played hockey lefty...did everything else righty. Threw, everything. And I was a good hitter...
I golf right handed. My dad taught me as a kid that golfing lefty was ****ing reeruned and made me golf right handed and it feels 100% natural to me. There have been years where I was a 90-100 golfer...
but last year...****, I was horrible. My drives were CONSISTENTLY out of bounds to where I had to stop using my driver. There was nothing I could do to fix it on the range, either. It was like a true tin cup experience for me and it made me want to never play golf again. And I probably won't.
Unfortuately with my recent knee injury that doesn't want to get better I can no longer play flag football or softball (competitively) either...
so I'm down to ****ing bowling.
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First of all, everyone has a "this is how you fix a slice" thought, but 90% of golfers slice, so take all with a grain of salt, this one included.
The difference between a pull and a slice is the face angle of the club at impact. In both cases the swing path (the arc the club travels0 is the same, but with a cut the face is open and with a pull its closed.
That said:
It's happening for two reasons:
1) You're throwing your right shoulder at the ball, which ****s up your swing plane.
2) Your clubface is open.
Focus on two things:
1) Strengthen your grip. The V formed by your thumb and forefinger should point at your right shoulder as you address the ball
2) Feel like you are holding your right shoulder back as you begin the downswing. If you can do this without losing your spine angle you'll put the club in the slot and hit it from the inside. If you have the same grip that used to cause a pull, it will now be a draw.
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