Slice cure: I bent my golf clubs. Now my slice is gone. It should be perfectly legal. All I’ve done is to adjust the lie and the loft. The longer story: Swedish driving ranges usually have mats instead of grass tees. The tees are made of a plastic material. After hitting a few buckets of balls you get some plastic residue on the sole of your clubs. I noticed that these lines of plastic were always skewed about 16° for my irons and 18° for my woods, compared a line perpendicular to the club face. (The hands entered the scene of impact before the club head.) So I figured if I bent my golf clubs to compensate for this circumstance, my slice would go away. And it did. Now my woods and iron 1 through SW are dead straight. (The problem only existed for the clubs i-6 and longer.) Bending the metal woods was the hardest problem. They don’t look so great anymore. (I can always put on a new finish. But I’m not an esthetic kind of guy. It’s the function I’m after.) Basically I removed the shaft, (The epoxy dissolves after heating it 10 seconds with a blow torch at 2400 °F.) scorched the 17-4 stainless hosel and the surrounding area glowing, bright orange. Then I hammered the hosel in the right direction. After that I had to reshape the opening of the hosel with a cone shaped drill. (I put a piece of wood on top of the drill and then I hit it with hammer, not to ruin this more expensive drill.) After that I had to drive a 0.315” drill through the hosel to make room for the shaft. I turned it backwards and hit the tip until an inch of it had gone into the hosel. (Here you have to go metal to metal otherwise the forces won’t be great enough.) I ruined this drill but it didn’t cost many cents. It was a cheap outlet drill. My irons were forged so they were easy to bend. I didn’t even heat them. I just locked them in a vise and hammered to increase the lie. When I needed to decrease the lie I removed the sharp edged vise blocks, put the club in between and turned until the club had the right lie. (I had to use a steel pipe as a lever.)
You may ask: Why didn’t I just change my swing?
Answer: I like my swing. I don’t want to change it. It has a very natural feel to it and it’s consistent. I know a lot of beginners say it’s the most unnatural motion they’ve ever felt. I didn’t have that problem. It’s a swing I’ve used since I started playing Bandy when I was a kid. (Besides, all right handed players hit the ball from the left hand side in Bandy as they do in Ice Hockey.)
