Golf Fuerteventura Tips: Using Pool Cues To Improve Your Driving

This story is for you if...
• Your driver impact feels either very dead or like you've just made contact with a bowling ball
• You find contact marks out on the toe and heel sections of your driver's clubface
• You slice

THE PROBLEM
You can't make contact on the center of the clubface with your driver, and that's costing you distance and accuracy.

HOW YOU KNOW IT'S HAPPENING
When you hit it off the heel, it'll feel like you just hit a brick and the ball will shoot dead left. If you hit it off the toe, you'll feel a soft impact, like you whacked an old apple.

HOW TO FIX YOUR HEEL AND TOE HITS
Lay four dowels (or pool cues or even string) on the ground as shown. The spaces between the dowels should be slightly wider than your clubhead. Address an imaginary ball in the middle lane. If you tend to hit it off the toe, take practice swings making sure your clubhead travels through the far lane after impact. If you hit it off the heel (or tend to shank your irons), your downswing path should go through the near lane. After 10 practice swings, tee up a ball and swing away. Now that you're slotted correctly, you'll hit it square and the same distance every time.

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Golf Tip: How to Stop Slices & Hooks

This story is for you if...
• You're making controlled, balanced swings but the ball is curving hard to the left or right.
• You've tried every drill imaginable and still can't hit the ball straight.

The Problem
You follow up a severe slice on one tee with a vicious hook on the next.

Why It's Happening
You're taking the club back off plane, and aren't making the necessary compensations on the way back down.


THE SOLUTION
You can search for downswing compensations to help you hit the ball straight, but why not just fix your backswing? It takes 20 seconds.
Lay your driver across your shoulders with the grip end to your left. Take your stance and make your regular backswing turn. Now, you may have seen this drill before, but hardly anyone does it correctly. Most golfers think that you should make your backswing turn so that the shaft points at the ball (photo, top right). That's way too steep, and one of the reasons why you slice. Swinging the club too flat with the shaft pointing way beyond the ball (photo, bottom right) is equally bad (and a potential source of your hook).
The correct way to perform this drill is to turn your shoulders and maintain your posture so that the shaft points at a spot just a foot on the other side of the ball. That's a perfect on-plane position. Combine a nice, smooth backswing with this exact shoulder turn and you'll be in perfect position at the top.

Sincerely,Dan The Golf Man