Slicers VS hookers

your bad shot...

  • I tend to lose the ball left (hook)

    Votes: 33 27.7%

  • I tend to lose the ball right (slice)

    Votes: 36 30.3%

  • I hit the thing all over the place both ways

    Votes: 30 25.2%

  • I'm pretty straight, a bad one is a slight pull/block

    Votes: 20 16.8%
  • Total voters
    119
Am mostly straight, but if I really go after a shot then a fade/slice is where its at for me. I forget I have wrists!
 
Generally my driver, when its going straight off right, ill try and correct it then the pulls start coming. Its more common for me to duff my irons but thinning it of fatting a few inches before the ball.
 
irons it is usually a slight hook as irons are normally a draw. with woods, I have tendency to come over top slightly and doesn't start left its more a sliding push
 
I reckon my misses (thinking mainly off the tee) are 40/60 left/right, but I went for slice as that's the main miss when I make an awful swing. The misses left tend to be good hits just pulled a bit.
 
I think there's a link to which side its safe to land on

I'll go right more often with a miss hit (9/10) but if the trouble is all down the left then that's where it'll go :confused:
 
Standard shot is a slight pull but if I get the path right is a gentle draw.
When its wrong....well, in order of frequency, it can be a pull, pull hook, high block, duck hook, high slice or, not forgetting, the low slice! :eek:
Usually not all shapes in the same round tho'! :p
 
Usually hit a nice draw but when it's bad it a long hook, when really bad a low duck hook - me and my driver have a love / hate relationship that I don't even think counselling would cure
 
All over the shop. Usually only hooky if i've turned the club face over, either through trying to hard to get through it, or catching the ground about a foot behind the tee peg haha!

My misses off the tee are equally spread left and right - although i've hit 10/14 fairways and 2/14 fairways in my last 2 rounds. Distinct lack of consistency haha?!

I try so hard to be in to out, and attack the ball on the right line - but i'm obviously still out to in as my ball flight is predominantly left to right. Occasionally i'll hit the middle of the club face and it'll pull straight left. Need to get more on the inside of it, somehow...
 
Whee said:
All over the shop. Usually only hooky if i've turned the club face over, either through trying to hard to get through it, or catching the ground about a foot behind the tee peg haha!

My misses off the tee are equally spread left and right - although i've hit 10/14 fairways and 2/14 fairways in my last 2 rounds. Distinct lack of consistency haha?!

I try so hard to be in to out, and attack the ball on the right line - but i'm obviously still out to in as my ball flight is predominantly left to right. Occasionally i'll hit the middle of the club face and it'll pull straight left. Need to get more on the inside of it, somehow...
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try dropping your right foot back a touch to give you more room to hit from the inside. many of the best players don't align themselves or hit the ball poker straight.

"Moe Norman aligned his feet a bit to the right and hit a slight pull straight down the middle. Lee Trevino lined up to the left and hit a push cut, and Hogan had a square alignment. Two of the three best ball-strikers in history weren't lined up square to their target, so I tend to think that aim is overrated. The thing that isn't overrated is making a repeating golf swing. No matter what your aim is, if your swing repeats you're going to be a great ball-striker. I always say, if you can hit consistent shots, you can always find your aim. "

interesting quote I read recently. kind of backs up the idea ive had for a while about amateur players struggling to hit good golf shots due to being aligned too straight. they end up quite often coming ott as they just have no room to get inside.
 
garyinderry said:
try dropping your right foot back a touch to give you more room to hit from the inside. many of the best players don't align themselves or hit the ball poker straight.

"Moe Norman aligned his feet a bit to the right and hit a slight pull straight down the middle. Lee Trevino lined up to the left and hit a push cut, and Hogan had a square alignment. Two of the three best ball-strikers in history weren't lined up square to their target, so I tend to think that aim is overrated. The thing that isn't overrated is making a repeating golf swing. No matter what your aim is, if your swing repeats you're going to be a great ball-striker. I always say, if you can hit consistent shots, you can always find your aim. "

interesting quote I read recently. kind of backs up the idea ive had for a while about amateur players struggling to hit good golf shots due to being aligned too straight. they end up quite often coming ott as they just have no room to get inside.
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Thanks Gary, that's what my pro had me doing in my last lesson - I ended up feeling like I was reaching too much for the ball at contact. One of those things you've got to stick with and practise though. You make a good point about the swing though; i'd take swinging like a complete biff if I could make a consistant contact with the ball and get it roughly where I want it.

Cheers bud.
 
As a plus, i never, ever, hook or pull (same thing...god knows).

My consistent bad shot is my slice but it doesn't stop me using the driver, ever. I may lose the ball right of the fairway sometimes but more often than not I manage it by doing what lots of you will frown upon by setting up very left. Of late however, i have lessened this as i've began to hit some straighter drives (that do 'fade'). Without getting into the complexities of why have kinda realised that my right hand grip was too weak on my downswing and at impact, i wasn't actually attacking the ball and also wasn't letting my arms naturally push my shoulders through to turn.

Thats as technical as i can get and am still probably wrong! I dunno what a 'block' is.
 
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