In this video, PGA Professional Nick Drane offers some top tips to stop slicing the driver
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00:00Hi, my name's Nick Drane.
00:06I'm a PGA professional and master fitting specialist here at the Titleist Performance
00:10Center at Woburn.
00:11And today we're going to talk about helping you to stop slicing your driver.
00:14The most common reason I see why golfers slice the golf ball is because their setup is not
00:19quite correct.
00:20If we can get you in the right setup in terms of your alignments, your feet, hips, knees,
00:25shoulders, and grip, we can then produce the right golf swing to get the golf ball flying
00:29at its optimum flight and distance.
00:32So typically the slice is caused by an over-the-top swing path with an open club face.
00:37We'll talk about a few fundamentals that are going to help you to prevent you from doing
00:40this.
00:41So the first one is going to be our ball position.
00:43So the ball position we want opposite our left heel.
00:46The shaft and my left arm form one line.
00:50My right shoulder then drops slightly lower than my left, creating a nice angle there.
00:56That's going to allow me to deliver the golf club with a positive angle at the tack and
01:00swing the golf club out to the right.
01:02One of the most common mistakes I see is that, as you can see, my head is positioned behind
01:06the golf ball.
01:07A lot of the time where people slice the golf ball and they cause that over-the-top clubhead
01:11path is where they are too on top of the golf ball.
01:14My shoulders are now pointing away to the left and that causes the club to come across
01:19the golf ball with an open face.
01:21It's going to start left and move right.
01:24By staying behind it with my correct grip, I'm going to control the club face and produce
01:31a nice high straight golf shot.
01:37As well as following these fundamentals, I'd always encourage you to get properly fit for
01:41your driver by a qualified PGA professional using a launch monitor if available.
01:45A couple of additional things you can do to help you preventing your slice.
01:49At Titleist we use a Sure-Fit Hossel.
01:52Through that we can make different lie adjustments to the driver that will help you with your
01:55start line.
01:56Also, we can then adjust the loft.
01:58By adding a little bit of loft, we can also close the club face.
02:01That's also going to help minimize your slice.
02:03I'm now going to demonstrate to you the incorrect setup position.
02:07I've got a weak grip.
02:09That's going to cause the club face to be open.
02:11I'm on top of the golf ball.
02:13My shoulders are pointing to the left.
02:15All these three attributes are going to cause that golf club to go out and across the golf
02:21ball causing it to start left and curve to the right.
02:24What we like to see is that proper setup position.
02:28Ball opposite my left heel.
02:29My head is now positioned behind the golf ball looking this direction.
02:33My correct grip.
02:34I've got the V's of my thumb and forefinger pointing up to my right shoulder.
02:39Now I can make a nice turn behind the golf ball and deliver it with a nice positive angle
02:45of attack.
02:46Hitting it on the up.
02:47Keeping the ball nice and straight and high for optimum distance and direction.