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So how do you fix the banana ball slice? Since the ball is slicing, your clubface is obviously open at impact causing the ball to spin to the right. But what causes that? It could be your grip, a lack of release of the hands through impact or even a byproduct of a bad swing path.
Most banana ball slices start left of the target and then slice severely back to the right. Therefore, the swing path is over the top or across the ball (pull), which almost always promotes holding on, or blocking the hands at impact (slice). Think about what would happen if you didn’t hold on through impact, you would always hit a severe pull or even a pull hook. So your mind has taught you how to get the ball going back to the target with that over-the-top swing path by blocking (or holding) the hands from releasing.
Most golfers who swing over the top unwind the shoulders too early in the swing. As the shoulders rotate around the spine on a fairly horizontal plane (like a helicopter), the swing path shifts outside the proper swing line. By the time your arms swing the club through the ball, the path is outside or across (pull).
So how do you fix it? From the top, don’t swing at the ball until the hands have loaded into the “slot.” Instead of rotating the shoulders horizontally (like a helicopter), the shoulders should rock (right shoulder under – more like an airplane propeller) as the arms and hand drop into the hitting slot. Then swing through the ball.
Picture yourself skipping a stone. You must first load the rock low by the hip before swinging the arm forward to skip the stone. If you skip the stone from the top of the “backswing” the stone has too steep an angle to skip along the surface of the water. Likewise, don’t hit the ball from the top of the swing…first let the shoulders, arms, hands and club load then swing through the ball.
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