Curing a slice with an adjustable driver

[paulb1312]

Hi, I have recently bought an Nike covert driver with adjustable head. I am right handed with a bit of a slice, and thought that closing the club face would help to cure this. Someone has told me that this actually encourages a slice. Does anyone know if this is true.

 

[golfdub]

Only way to cure a slice is fix your swing, I don't think any club would cure a slice.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Get a lesson. Cure the fault, not find an Elastoplast fix

 

[Pin-seeker]

Get a lesson. Cure the fault, not find an Elastoplast fix

If a pro was to adjust the setting for you would that be classed as custom fit?

 

[paulb1312]

Have tried for years to cure it and had lessons but unfortunately it still sneaks in. Just wanted to know if closing the face would make it worse.

 

[Pippo_T]

If a pro was to adjust the setting for you would that be classed as custom fit?

Adjusting the club face on an adjustable driver can alter the characteristics of a relatively straight shot, but it won't cure a slice.

If you struggle with a bad slice, closing the club face will most likely lead to big pulls left on the occasions you don't slice.

 

[Pin-seeker]

Adjusting the club face on an adjustable driver can alter the characteristics of a relatively straight shot, but it won't cure a slice.

If you struggle with a bad slice, closing the club face will most likely lead to big pulls left on the occasions you don't slice.

I appreciate that,just makes me laugh how it's frowned upon when people try to correct a swing fault with different clubs/settings, but it's ok if it's with a pro trying different shafts & heads.

 

[Brian_C]

I'm in the same boat as you and I went and got lessons. Had 3 lessons now and it's the best thing I've ever done (at least in terms of golf). Everything pointed out to me my the Pro, once explained was plainly obvious and I thought hey, why didn't I notice that.

 

[Foxholer]

Hi, I have recently bought an Nike covert driver with adjustable head. I am right handed with a bit of a slice, and thought that closing the club face would help to cure this. Someone has told me that this actually encourages a slice. Does anyone know if this is true.

It might help slightly. Then again, it might indeed encourage a slice.

A suggestion - as an experiment to try on the range. Try setting up/aiming/aligning to the right and try and still hit the ball 'straight down down the middle'.

 

[JCW]

Clubs and adjustments wont help , Lessons are the only way , the pro will adjust your swing to get you to start hooking the ball , its to do with swing path and your hands releasing the club in the swing , once they get you hooking they work on getting you to hit it straighter or with a draw , I started with a slice then a fade , now I play with a soft draw ..........Good luck as it takes time ..................EYG

 

[paulb1312]

If the only way to change the ball flight is with your swing can someone explain to me the point of adjustable heads and why Phil Mickleson took two drivers to the masters one for draw and one for fade.

 

[Airlie_Andy]

If the only way to change the ball flight is with your swing can someone explain to me the point of adjustable heads and why Phil Mickleson took two drivers to the masters one for draw and one for fade.

I'm sure a ball flight laws expert will be along shortly but the slice is caused by swinging out to in with an open club face (to the path of the swing). If you close the club face enough to match the path of the swing, and therefore stop the slice, the ball will just go straight left. An adjustable head is more for fine tuning then for fixing a swing fault.

 

[mchacker]

Adjustable clubs are to fine tune an already good shape to make it very good. If at impact your face is 5° open and you close the face 2° the face will still be 3° open and you will still slice. Does the ball start at the target and slice, or start left of target and slice?

 

[paulb1312]

It starts straight and then goes off to the right.

 

[the smiling assassin]

My slice with my driver has been cured thanks to my fitting. 913D2 10.5 A3 setting (off the top of my head +1.5loft, +1.5lie upright). Used to hit a very low shot which could end up a long way right. Now hit a towering ball with rarely more than a couple of yards dispersion off the starting line. Alignment is the only thing I now have to worry about.

 

[JCW]

My slice with my driver has been cured thanks to my fitting. 913D2 10.5 A3 setting (off the top of my head +1.5loft, +1.5lie upright). Used to hit a very low shot which could end up a long way right. Now hit a towering ball with rarely more than a couple of yards dispersion off the starting line. Alignment is the only thing I now have to worry about.

I got one off them adjustable drivers , fitted for me and my swing hence never even touch the settings ..............EYG

 

[mchacker]

It starts straight and then goes off to the right.

So your path is probably quite straight but the face is open to the path, but to cause a slice it needs to be very open and the adjustability in a driver head isn't going to fully correct that. My guess is that your grip is weak at address and you aren't getting onto your left side at impact, purely because those are things I did when I sliced, but I'm not a swing coach and I haven't seen you swing so can't be sure.

 

[SocketRocket]

It is posible it could change your slice. Slices/Fades are caused by the swingpath being left of the clubface direction at impact. If you can adjust the face so it is nearer the clubface direction you will reduce the slice spin on the ball. It depends on how the ball starts off and how much it bends in fight.

 

[Sledgehammer]

There are a few different cause to a slice so this may or may not be your problem:

I had been struggling with a slice for months and just couldn't get the face square at impact. I knew I had to roll my wrists but I couldn't figure out how. This video was a bit of an epiphany for me. Been hitting straight and long ever since.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knCWX_Wsttk

 

[ArnoldArmChewer]

Only way to cure a slice is fix your swing, I don't think any club would cure a slice.

+1 to this, adapt your style not your equipment