Coming inside at impact

[diw1515]

Hi all, Had a lesson yesterday to try and eliminate my slice. Pro did some video work and showed me I was fine right up until impact where I came inside and cut across the ball. Did some work on staying outside and trying to draw the ball but it was only a 30 min lesson. The main ones being pointing my shoulders right and slightly aiming left. Anyone got any drills for staying outside at impact that I could practice at the range? Like I said it's really only in the last fraction of the swing I pull inside at impact Cheers!

[Abu3baid]

  diw1515 said:

Hi all,

Had a lesson yesterday to try and eliminate my slice.

Pro did some video work and showed me I was fine right up until impact where I came inside and cut across the ball.

Did some work on staying outside and trying to draw the ball but it was only a 30 min lesson. The main ones being pointing my shoulders right and slightly aiming left.

Anyone got any drills for staying outside at impact that I could practice at the range? Like I said it's really only in the last fraction of the swing I pull inside at impact

Cheers!

I am sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm finding it hard to believe that the issue you are having is at the "last fraction" of the swing.  This is most likely due to you coming from a steep angle going back to where you were coming from after the top of the backswing position.

Do you have the video that the pro took and what he showed you exactly?  that will really help in understanding what the pro saw in your swing.

A good drill from coming from the inside could be placing alignment sticks aiming 30-40* to the right, and then swing along those sticks and hit the ball and see if that helps.. start with trying to hit the ball 40 yards with a 7 iron, and if you see the ball starting to draw you know you are on the right track, then try and hit the ball 60 yards and gradually go up, and see if that helps.

[diw1515]

I'll see if I can get my hands on the video. Maybe it wasn't at the last fraction but it was certainly the latter part of the downswing

[TimS65]

I'm slightly confused by the "staying outside" comment which suggests an outside to in, over the top type of swing plane. Which sounds a bad thing. You should be thinking of going from in to out, NOT staying out?

[RandallT]

The downswing itself is a fraction of a second. I'm with @Abu3baid - doubt it's an instantaneous deviation before impact. Probably the positions your body is moving will cause the club path. Rather than fix the club path "instant" change problem, look at your entire swing and body mechanics. Post the swing and smart people here can diagnose.

[diw1515]

Really, what I'm trying to do is eliminate, on the downswing, coming inside at impact. I'm not necessarily wanting to be outside on the downswing, just not inside. I have the tendency to set the ball up on the heel of the club and I am not trying to set it up on the toe to get away from that. I'm almost trying to stretch for the ball at impact and trying to get a draw on the ball. Made slow progress at the range yesterday but my instinct is to come inside on the downswing

[diw1515]

That should say I am now trying...

[John S]

  diw1515 said:

Really, what I'm trying to do is eliminate, on the downswing, coming inside at impact.

I'm not necessarily wanting to be outside on the downswing, just not inside.

I have the tendency to set the ball up on the heel of the club and I am not trying to set it up on the toe to get away from that.

I'm almost trying to stretch for the ball at impact and trying to get a draw on the ball. Made slow progress at the range yesterday but my instinct is to come inside on the downswing

So you are saying you have the red swing path, or the blue? And you are trying to get the green? I used to have the red path, the "towels under armpits" drill helped me correct it. :)

The red is a very common cause of slice. Often referred to as "coming over the top" or "outside - in". You don't want to come outside in AKA red. :)

Green will give a draw, or in my case a hook...

[boogielicious]

  diw1515 said:

Hi all,

Had a lesson yesterday to try and eliminate my slice.

Pro did some video work and showed me I was fine right up until impact where I came inside and cut across the ball.

Did some work on staying outside and trying to draw the ball but it was only a 30 min lesson. The main ones being pointing my shoulders right and slightly aiming left.

Anyone got any drills for staying outside at impact that I could practice at the range? Like I said it's really only in the last fraction of the swing I pull inside at impact

Cheers!

Check out this thread. Your instructor is probably trying to stop too much of an inside out path.

[Abu3baid]

  boogielicious said:

Check out this thread. Your instructor is probably trying to stop too much of an inside out path. [CONTENTEMBED=/t/77244/how-to-hit-a-driver-hit-it-further-and-stop-slicing layout=inline]​[/CONTENTEMBED]

But he was working on eliminating his slice.. Wouldn't too inside of a path cause a hook?

[John S]

  Abu3baid said:

But he was working on eliminating his slice.. Wouldn't too inside of a path cause a hook?

IIRC coming from the inside can still cause a push slice, starts right and goes further right, if the clubface is open. I tend to come too far from the inside a lot and the miss is either a hook or a push slice.

[diw1515]

Think it's the blue path! Wish I could remember more of what I was told at my lesson. I can defo remember being told the backswing is fine and the club is square at the top of the swing. It's almost as if I bail out at the last minute of my swing and come inside. I never get any toe hits! By the way appreciate the replies so far, will have a look at that link posted