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Full Swing · Technique

Cure an over-the-top slice by swinging on an arc

Instead of swinging over the top in a straight line with just hands and arms, understand the swing as an arc that travels around your body, returns on line to square impact, and swings back around your body. Feel like you're going low and round, keeping the lead (left) elbow much closer to you so you swing from inside the line to outside. From there the wrists can release the club; if you keep swinging across it you have to hold the face off, whereas an inside path lets the ball draw.

Channel: Dan Grieve

Watch official source at 15:58

Try it

  1. Feel like you're going low and round
  2. Keep your left elbow staying much closer to you
  3. Swing from the inside of that line to outside
  4. Let your wrists release the club

Why this context matters

The student was slicing from an over-the-top move; the fix produced his first draw.