Irons Straight, Driver Slice

[Dan2501]

You can try it, but it'll make a minute difference. If you're slicing the ball, you'll still slice whether it's set to draw or not.

What's your angle of attack like? Biggest thing that's changed my driving is learning to hit up on the ball. I used to come in incredibly steep, and it gives you no room to get the club into a good position, and striking the middle of the club impossible. As soon as I sorted out my AOA my driving transformed. It's amazing how much of a difference a small change can make. Are you having lessons currently?

 

[TheCaddie]

You can try it, but it'll make a minute difference. If you're slicing the ball, you'll still slice whether it's set to draw or not.

What's your angle of attack like? Biggest thing that's changed my driving is learning to hit up on the ball. I used to come in incredibly steep, and it gives you no room to get the club into a good position, and striking the middle of the club impossible. As soon as I sorted out my AOA my driving transformed. It's amazing how much of a difference a small change can make. Are you having lessons currently?

I have had lessons, and pro seems to think i am potentially coming down to steeply.

But he is happy with my iron swings, and I am as well.

It just feels like my iron swing and driver swing are completely different. I am sure that isn't the reality, but it does feel that way and I have just got my irons to the level I would like them to be for now. Given the length of the club I might just need to come around my body a little more than I am with my irons. Make sure I am out to in...

Shame the draw option on the club won't fix it. My slice is straight for 150 yards and then out to the right... which means the face is connecting with the ball in the right way, but I must still be cutting across...

 

[Billythefish]

Add me as another one who had this issue.
Driver lesson, all set up, aiming shoulders too far left, if you are slicing it we have a tendency to aim left, the further you aim left, the more you will slice it.
Also a big thing for me was speed swing was way too fast, slowed it right down and straightened shoulders and the difference within ten minutes was unreal.

 

[Sound+Design]

i think your'e hitting the ball club face open or over the top...try hitting face close. just my 2 cents.

 

[Region3]

If you find your shoulders are aiming left, it could be because you're reaching out with your right hand and shoulder when you take your grip because it has further to go than the left.

Instead, try moving your right shoulder down to feel like your right handing is taking it's grip underneath your left instead of out past it. This should also tilt your spine away from the target a touch, which is good.

 

[garyinderry]

Try setting up with you head like this. Alot of the time people cut across the ball as they have their head pointing at the ball at set up.

This.little change can make a.big.differnce to the swing path.

Worth a pop.

Make sure the downswing is staring from the ground up. If this isn't happening then not a lot can help until you fix that.

 

[Hobbituk]

I have had lessons, and pro seems to think i am potentially coming down to steeply.

Shame the draw option on the club won't fix it. My slice is straight for 150 yards and then out to the right... which means the face is connecting with the ball in the right way, but I must still be cutting across...

your last sentence is correct

I would ask your teacher to explain how angle of attack will be a reason for a ball going right due to spin

if if you are hitting down on the ball then the issue will be distance - you will generate backspin, which increases flight trajectory, and reduces roll

if you are coming down on the ball and cutting across it, then it sounds like you need to "flatten" your driver swing (I.e. Come around the body rather than up or out with the arms)

assuming that reduces the angle of attack then - all other things being equal (which they won't be as you'll no doubt compensate somewhere, but this is theory) then your swing will still cut across the ball ever so slightly but it should reduce loft and increase roll - in theory, a more pronounced slice as the spin is less backspin and the same amount of side spin

what it may do is help you view the arc of the swing in your practice swing, so you should see yourself cutting across the ball

then, options are:

1. Move ball backwards in stance and slightly further away from you
2. Just move ball further away from you (as you may be cutting across because it's too close, thus promoting you to swing down and across in order to hit the ball)
3. Keep ball where it is but shift body weight so at impact you are further left and thus your club will hit the ball in the right point in the awing
4....

you see the issue? You can fix this in an infinite number of ways

my recommendation would be to do a half swing that is also slower and flatter, and try to identify where in the arc of your swing you are hitting the ball

from there, you can use your body parts / position of ball to compensate


the other thing.... If you hit the driver 100 times and 100 times you go straight for 150 then go right 50 yards and it lands 200 yards away, but 50 yards right of target....... Just aim 50 yards left as the consistency is the biggest hurdle!

 

[TheCaddie]

Thanks for your advice all!

Off to the range tonight, so will let you know my findings..... going to take some time down there, and try and work this out.

 

[Dan2501]

Take a video of your swing and post it up! Plenty of guys on here that know their stuff and will be able to help you with drills

 

[Leereed]

I do the same irons straight(slice driver)but this goes through stages.straigh for weeks then the slice comes back with a vengeance.I find it happens when my back swing speeds up and I don't complete it.

 

[TheCaddie]

So I changed my Titleist to A3... Kept the same swing and shot a LOT straight. A couple weren't the best connections but the ones that were absolutely flew. Really decent strikes though most of them, I was almost jumping up and down!

Then I snapped the rubber tee and had another 80 balls stuck!!! So had to go to irons and wedges off the deck.

Can't wait to get back to the range though as it seemed to be a quick fix. Was it a placebo though? Not sure. Changed my 3w to the same setting and was hitting some beauties off the deck but plenty we're going everywhere. To be fair, I have had hardly any practice with that at all, so that's a work in progress.

Can't wait to get back to the range and see if this driver issue is sorted!!!!!

 

[shortstuff]

What's 'A3'?

 

[TheCaddie]

What's 'A3'?