Hit the Extra Tee for Straighter Shots
One of the most common faults of this type of shot shape is the out to in swing path and you are probably open at the address position. What I mean is your feet, hips and shoulders are aligned to the left of your target (if you are a right handed golfer, oppisit if you are a lefty).
What happens most of the time is people (golfers) will continue to try and align there bodies even more left of the target if they slice. Now you are really asking for trouble. This is the perfect set up position to hit the ball from left to right. And sure enough you end up doing that. When you start from a bad address position, you have even a harder time making a good swing in the end.
If you are trying to hit the ball straight, you should always start with a good address position. You need to have your hips, shoulders and feet all aligned straight down the target lin. This is very important. When the club starts to get outside of the ball to target line during your downswing, you are more than likely heading for trouble and most likely headed for the rough or woods on the right side of the fairway. Once your club head is in this outside position, there is not a whole lot you can do to stop the slice.
Here is an idea on how to stop this from happening, and it is more of a mental tip while you are on the course, but you can practice this when you are on the driving range. What you want to do it this, Imagine that there is a tee in the gound about 3-4 inches ahead of the ball you are trying to hit. Now when you make your swing, try to hit the other tee with the club head. What this is going to do is to promote a straight down the line swing path. This is also going to give you more of a inside to out swing path on the downswing and should start to prevent the slice from happening or at least slow it down a bit.
Now when you are on the driving range you can stick the tee in the ground and try to actually hit it with the club head. So practicing this on the range is going to help you invision it better on the course. Just remember to keep that club moving down a straight path into that other tee that is 3-4 inches in front of the ball you are trying to hit. This is going to get the club on that inside to out path that you want and will start to prevent that awful slice.
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Well I hope that you liked the tip on getting rid of the slice. I know it works, because I used it to teach myself how to get rid of the slice.
You will be amazed at the results that you get. Try it out and let me know what you think on my blog. Just put a comment. I would love to hear from you. Puttlightsout blog. So good luck and just put a little practice time in with the tee drill.
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