Why can I not close the club face? i.e., why do I slice?

[david_wedzik]

The great majority of slicers do so with a pretty square clubface (some even closed...and the point is that is not the core of the problem). I could go through 5 things to work on and try to explain them here but it suffices to say that the odds are you are hitting the ball on the "front side" of the circle that we all play golf on. Imagine you are at address looking at the ball - try to picture, transcribed on the ground around both sides of the ball that your club will swing (with the center of the circle at the ball position), a slightly curved semi-circle. This is to represent the path that your club is traveling on. Now with that said - you are VERY LIKELY hitting your ball while the club is traveling out to in and on the front half of that semi-circle. If you picture this you can see that the club is already traveling in to out at that point. Even if the clubface was square to the target it is NOT square to that path (i.e. slice). As I said...there are a number of things that may need fixed but the very first is understanding that you need to hit the ball on the BACK SIDE of that circle transcribed on the ground. The steps below are what a golfer should do if I wanted to start a ball to the right the most...and hook it the most. Try this and see where it goes: