Lee Trevino has an easy swing adjustment to fix your slice

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Hitting a slice is not any enjoyable. The ball comes out with tons of spin and no management. There’s no energy within the shot and it often places you in some powerful spots.

It’s a helpless feeling watching the ball begin on its twisting path — and a sense most golfers know properly.

When you first begin enjoying golf, the slice is a well-known ball flight. Coming excessive and chopping throughout the ball is extraordinarily widespread for novices. But if you’d like to enhance, you could find out how to eliminate that banana-shaped ball flight.

Lee Trevino has forgotten extra about golf than most of us will ever know. Fortunately for the slicers on the market, one factor he’ll all the time know is how to fix a slice. And within the video under (1:21 mark), he explains a easy swing adjustment that can enable you eliminate your slice for good.

Lee Trevino’s easy slice fix

As talked about above, a slice comes from an over-the-top swing path that causes you to minimize throughout the ball by way of the hitting zone. The motive for an over-the-top path can differ, however one factor that’s constant is your lead knee will get too straight on the backside of your swing.

“What happens when you get down into the hitting area is that you’re locking your [lead] knee,” Trevino says. “What happens here is the right shoulder goes over and you cut across the ball.”

To hold your self from locking the lead knee, attempt to give attention to retaining your lead kneecap in entrance of your path kneecap as you make your downswing.

“What you have to do is make sure when you’re in the hitting area, the [lead] knee breaks towards the target, keeping the [trail] knee in back of the [lead knee],” Trevino says. “This results in laying off the club and getting underneath it.”

Once you begin retaining that lead knee a bit extra flexed within the downswing, you’ll have the opportunity to lay off the membership and produce a path that comes from the within. Then — voila! — your slice shall be gone.

Zephyr Melton

Golf.com Editor

Zephyr Melton is an assistant editor for GOLF.com the place he spends his days running a blog, producing and enhancing. Prior to becoming a member of the workforce at GOLF, he attended the University of Texas adopted by stops with the Texas Golf Association, Team USA, the Green Bay Packers and the PGA Tour. He assists on all issues instruction and covers novice and ladies’s golf. He might be reached at zephyr_melton@golf.com.