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Welcome to the Slice Program. A slice is one of the most frustrating ball flight patterns on the planet. It is hard to play since the more you aim for it, usually the more you slice it. And on top of that, it doesn't feel good. Most slicers hit the ball on the toe, and they tend to add loft. Both of those factors transfer less energy to the ball and feel "weak" at impact.
The Slice Program is broken into two week sections with each section having a common theme. The first stage covers the core science of a slice. Basically, the difference between the face and the path at impact creates curve, and the bigger the difference, the more the ball will curve. In this section, you will learn some drills that will help you identify and key in on your swing path.
The second stage covers how creating power in the wrong way may be the route cause of your path problems. This section gets into more of the details of how transition affects your path and gives you clear ways to train the transition, so that you can put in reps and give your brain the information that it needs to make a change.
The third stage covers how you are getting the club face to point at the target at impact. Many golfers use the path to get the face to point at the target which works for shorter clubs, but causes a big curve with the longer clubs. Learn how to square the clubface using just your hands so that it matches the path if you are using a good path.
The slice is frustrating, but it's not too complicated to change. It just takes repetitions with good feedback, and soon you'll be hitting the draw you've always wanted.
Have fun, and good luck!
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In these first two weeks we're going to cover drills that will help you explore the
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concepts of slicing them all. So the concept of slicing them all is relatively
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simple. I've got this alignment stick on the ground and what it means is that
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through impact the club is coming from outside to inside like so and the
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face is pointed close to my target so that creates an outside in path with a
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face that is through the right of that path and so that open face to the path
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going like so creates clockwise spin which moves the ball off to the right. So
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we're going to identify some of the major reasons. The two things we have to
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fix are the face and the path because if I were coming across like so and
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all I did was make my club face square to the path now I would hit the ball
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way off to the left and if I was coming outside to in or I fixed it coming
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inside to out but kept the face the same now I would hit it way to the right. So
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unfortunately you're going to have to work on both of these issues of the face
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and the path. Now some of the easy ways to adjust the face are going to be
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taking a look at your grip and how we go through the release but we'll do that
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in the control center section and then how we control the path the simple stuff
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is making sure that we get in to a good setup position that positions me in
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a way that the path will most likely come from inside out and then putting
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something on the ground or having visual feedback to allow my brain to just
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try to kind of troubleshoot and figure it out. Now if you go through these
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first two weeks and you're still slicing the ball we've got two more stages
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that we're going to go through to understand well maybe it's my power source
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and then lastly maybe it's my control center.
