rebuilding my swing, now i can usually hit the ball on the center of the face, but now i’m struggling to close the face causing huge slices. what to fix?
by jvr_lol
Golf Tips
rebuilding my swing, now i can usually hit the ball on the center of the face, but now i’m struggling to close the face causing huge slices. what to fix?
by jvr_lol
4 Comments
Swing looks good.
Two thoughts to improve club head release at impact. First, experiment with releasing the club more around your body instead of down the line. Your finish position is very straight up and good chance the urge to chop wood is overtaking the centripetal force of your body rotation. Second, check your grip pressure and dial it back 1-2 clicks on a 10 point scale. This will transfer more centripetal force into the club head and shut the face as you rotate through. GL!
It looks like you may be opening the club face at parallel in the backswing (It’s a little hard to tell with the blur). You may look at that. Extend your takeaway a bit and hold that club face a little longer.
Too much arm lift and insufficient hand depth. Hence hands too high at the top. Lead arm above your shoulder plane. You try to shallow but still too steep into impact. Get your hands deeper and lower for a better path into impact, lower launch and straighten up rhe fade. Solid swing though!!
Extend your trail wrist in your backswing as much as you can. At the top of your backswing, look at your wrists, notice how when you extend your trail wrist it closes your club face. Now keep that wrist position through impact. Try it with a swing, you should see it go left. Now try again with less wrist extension and it should go less left. Keep doing this and you’ll learn to control your club face. Close to go left, open to go right. This is a bit simplified but gist is that you can control your club face with your wrist in your back and downswing. Ideally it should match what you had at address, but you can’t take for granted that if you had a closed face at address that that’s what you’ll present at impact. Your wrist could have opened your face if you’re not holding wrist angles or manipulating wrists on purpose. Lastly, look up some of Padrick Harrington videos on YT. He’s got an easy way of explaining how to stop slicing for beginners.