Curious.....So...Why is a slice so easy to hit?

[MiniJeffrey]

Give any object or club to someone who doesn't play golf, put them in the backswing position, now ask them to simulate how they would do the downswing to hit a golfball. 90% of those people will come (slightly) over the top, allmost no-one will have a swingplane where the club is coming behind and in->out. Now, because this over the top movement feels so naturally it is very easy to keep doing that in actual golf, and very hard to do the swing in->out. Together with the open clubface (loose grip or not closing the clubface on impact) this causes left->right slices (for right handed). The closed clubface is for many players easy to fix, a lot easier than the over the top swing.