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Stop a golf slice dead in it's path

A slice is caused by a clubface that is open with a swing path that is usually comming from the outside to in, meaning the club is moving toward your feet slightly before, durring, and after impact. One of my favorite drills to stop this is called the "gate" drill. You will need 3 golf balls to do it. The first one is the one your going to hit, place it normallin on the groung. The second should be placed two inches in front of that ball and then five inches toward your feet. The third should be placed two inches behind the ball then five inches away from your feet. Now hit the original first ball, the other two balls will act as guides or gates that you should be able to swing through without hitting. Notice to do this you will have to come from the inside. You still don't want to force the issue, be relaxed and let your arms be swung freely through the gates by the rotation of your body. Hope this helps, it's simple and it works.

The simple fact is that you slice because the club-face is open at impact, imparting rightward spin (for a righty) on the ball. This can be caused by a few things:
1) Your wrist is cupped at the top (to demonstrate this, make a fist, hold your arm straight out, and pull your knuckles towards you so that your palm is facing away from you)
2) Your timing is off, so that your hips are 'firing' out of sequence with your arms, which means that your arms either have to catch up (which causes other problems), or they are dragged across the the ball, which has the same effect as #1
3) Your swing path is over the top, which automatically causes the effect in #1

Solutions
1) To correct a cupped wrist, make sure that at the top of the backswing your wrist is flat, start with slow motion swings, and then half swings, working your way up to full-speed
2) To correct your timing, the best drill to do is to hit half shots with a 7 iron, focusing on your tempo and then transferring this tempo to your driver
3) To correct over the top swings there are a few solutions. You can buy a training aid such as the inside approach. You can put a long tee in the ground behind your ball to make sure the you have to come inside out in order to not hit it. You can do slow motion swings from the top, focusing on dropping your arms into the 'slot', which would be the correct position during your downswing.

I found this out there... It describes the causes and it give you a cure for your slice... I used this to help get my slice straightend out a bit.

How should your feet be positioned?