Correcting A Slice
 

Just a question for the golfers. I hit left and for the longest time I couldn't hit my driver without a nasty slice but I could hit my irons well enough to keep up with other people. The driver wasn't anything special it was a Dunlop that came with set. I picked up a Mizuno (cant remember which one exactly) sometime in the winter and my slice went away, its asif my club corrected the slice. I was driving between 275 - 300 and couldnt hit a slice if my life depended on it. I went up to camp for a week and was playing 1 or 2 rounds a day and everything was fine. Now that im back home im slicing with my driver again and im hooking with my irons. I know my stance and swing are fine but does anybody have any tips on what i could try to correct both?

What I've noticed this season is, if I tee up too high, I slice. I have a Calloway Great Big Bertha, that I bought used a couple seasons back. It's got a BIG old head, and you'd think I'd have to tee it up really high, but if it's more than two inches off the ground, it's going into the right-side rough. Maybe I'm setting up with the ball too far forward, is what occurs to me now as I type this...

Anyway, I bet it has something to do with your setup being different with the different type of club and different shaft lengths. If you're teeing up at the extreme front or back of your setups, you might try every setup with the ball back toward the middle a bit.

I'm in the same boat as you under... my games satisfactory when using my irons (and sometimes even putting) but for some reason I'm just horrible at driving, and it is something that I do try to focus on considerably. However I'm by all means still a beginner (I've played/went to the driving course perhaps twenty times between last summer and this summer) but my dad's taught me considerably. Given your performance with using higher end golfing equip, I'd say it sounds like you would probably benefit from a better set (at least in terms of the driver you were using)... although I'd hate to think of how much that'd cost. Alas, I've also find that when I spend a lot of time working on my driving my iron shots suffer. Next time I go out I'm going to do some reading up on the differences in technique between the two stances.

Well, you're lefty so that screws everything up for me.

But what RB said about teeing the ball up and where it is in your stance has a lot to do with it. I've been driving very well this summer, although I'm not a big hitter (275 is about the end of my range). I try to tee the ball up so that it's 1/2 ball about the face of my driver when it's facing the ball on the ground (does that make sense?). I also play my driver off the instep of my left foot (which I guess would translate to your right foot). I know someone who plays the ball even with his crotch and drives the ball as straight as can be, so you really need to figure out what works for you.

My problem this summer has been my irons. When they're on, they're money - I'm getting pretty damn accurate with my 5-6-7 and landing shots within a foot of my target point - but I have to slow myself down and make sure that I'm lining up correctly. I have a real problem with wanting to shade everything to the left, so I have to line myself up, stop, look and usually do it again.

I've been threatening to buy new clubs for 3 years now, but I just never seem to get around to it. I've been playing with the same set of Wilson Irons for at least 10 years, and I'm comfortable with them, but they need to be regripped, and I'm not sure that polishing these turds is better than just buying new ones. I also need a new driver, but I've figured out how to make this one work for me. Decisions, decisions....

I corrected my slice by learning to hit a draw.

I don't believe in instruction which says "Don't so this!" - it's a negative thought. So I just learned how to do something positive instead - and that was to hit a draw. Now I can hit the draw or hit it straight very reliably with power, or hit a fade with a little less oomph.

Everytime I slice the ball, I look down to find that my hands had separated slightly during the swing. If you can keep your hands from coming apart in the swing and also make sure that your wrists roll over properly, your slicing problems will no longer be a problem(assuming you don't make an outside/in swing to begin with)

your grip? or
is the drivers shaft regular? you may need a stiff shaft

I use the strong grip.