- Well, good morning. Adam Bazalgette here
in beautiful Naples, Florida at The Club at Mediterra.
I wanna talk to you today about to fix a slice with hybrids.
I'm two-time PGA Teacher of the Year Award winner down here
and founder of Scratch Golf Academy.
Stay tuned. We'll look at these hybrids.
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So let's take a look.
If you slice hybrids, let's see if we can
help you out a little bit.
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Me tell you something, job one when you fix a slice
with the hybrids or any club for that matter
is to get a sense of what's going on.
Now invariably, there's two things happening.
Number one, the swing is almost certainly too much across
the target line to the left, and without a question
of a doubt, relative to the swing,
the club faces open at contact.
That's the only way you can get the ball to peel right.
Now it's possible to swing more down the line
with an open face then you'll really get a right peeler,
but generally, people swing to the left.
The real critical thing to fix first, in my opinion,
I've been doing this a long time
and watched a lot of people struggle with this,
is get the club face in a better position.
It's only once you get the club face aimed relatively true
to the swing and start getting solid straight ball flight,
or even a little draw if the club face closes a bit
that you can start to effectively get your swing on line.
Telling you, if you are a having a tendency slicing
the ball, your subconscious is trying to help you stop that,
and if the club face isn't changing,
if it's consistently a little bit open,
the only plausible way to keep the ball in front of you
and on the golf course is to swing more to the left
because at least that gives it a chance
to work back into play.
It is so difficult mentally and emotionally
if you're losing balls to the right to start to try
to swing to the right or swing more from the inside
'cause the reality is it only makes your problem worse.
So let's start with what I think is a place to start
and that's the club face.
Now I'm gonna approach the camera close here
and show you something.
You wanna do this at home.
If you've got a club, take the club out and do this.
That is a square club face.
You can see within a degree or two,
it's straight up and down.
That is a closed club face.
We don't need all this to close the club face.
We have to turn it more towards the ground.
Have a lot of people in golf lessons say,
"Well, how do I close the club face?"
It's not that difficult.
Just hold it in front of you and do that.
Whatever that feels like to you is closing the club face.
Certainly, your grip might need a look-see.
You need a grip that has mobility and is in such a position,
maybe a little more over here,
that makes it easier to do that.
We got lots of information on the grip
back at my website, scratchgolfacademy.com,
but we're gonna assume your grip for a moment.
Get yourself at least comfortable
when you stand there with a club till you can do that.
Now here's another little word of, I hope, of wisdom,
if I don't oversell myself here.
If you pull too hard with your arms through the shot
and pull too hard, it is very difficult
to get the club to close.
The way that energy is transferred from the golfer
to the club efficiently is the same as cracking a whip,
and that is to say as you get nearer impact,
your body and then arms start to slow down
which transfers energy out to the golf club.
Think of a whip, you'd stall the handle to snap the whip,
so you've gotta work on this in conjunction
with the snap down there.
And what I would recommend is do it
on a small scale initially.
Again this is a 20-degree hybrid.
Make a little back swing, and just snap the face down
with a little energy popping out there,
and go ahead and let that ball hook.
You see how far left that went?
Hit yourself a couple of these little smothering kinda hooks
to start with till you get the feel for it.
So now the little thing I would tell you
when you're working on your golf,
you gotta be a little bit playful,
you gotta make a few exaggerations and mistakes
and just play a little bit.
You'll get the best results.
You will not get the best results
sticking a bunch of swing thoughts in your head
and trying for a perfect result first time.
That is not a good way to free up and get a good result.
So once you've done that, you started to feel that,
do that a little less severely,
and you can see that one was
relatively straight there, maybe just a little turn on it,
then start to do it on a little bit bigger scale
and go back to the small scale.
If they go a little bit left, don't worry about it,
as long as the ball isn't curving to the right,
you're improving your club face position.
Once you get some confidence,
hey, I'm missing balls to the left and it's curving left,
then you're in a place to start working a little more
on your swing plane and swing path,
got lots of videos on that.
So in summary, if the ball is slicing with your hybrids,
club face is open in relation to the swing
and it's likely your swing is to the left.
First thing to do, discover what a square club feels like,
or a closed club preferably.
Secondly, realize you have to transfer energy into the club
and snap into that position a little bit to get it there.
You can't just pull your arms through and hope it closes.
And thirdly, get a little playful.
Play around on a small scale.
Develop some skill, develop at least a pull draw
and then work in to try and get your swing on line
and hit the proper-size draw or the proper draw
that would start a little more to the right.
Hope this helps you.
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That'll talk about how to transfer energy to the club.
Hope you'd find that helpful.
Again my name's Adam, scratchgolfacademy.com.
Hope this helps you fix that slice with hybrids.
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