We have a question from the Crazycanuk. So I guess we're talking to a Canadian. Hopefully we can straighten things out there. The Crazycanuk asks” “Here is a question for golfers like me who write left handed, throw left handed but hit the golf ball right handed. Is this one of the problems we have with slices. Now since I have been using the PPGS I don't slice as much but it's still there.”
Crazycanuk, it could be, but I think it's the same whether you are right handed or left handed. Whatever is happening, your clubface is coming into the impact zone either slightly open or slightly cutting across the line and hitting the ball with a square face. That would make it start on line and then slice.
I think there are a number of issues. As I've always said, check out your golf clubs to make sure that the lie angle is correct. Because if your lie angle is off, that could be causing the club to ricochet off the ground improperly, opening up the face, which would cause your irons to go right.
It sound like it's happening with everything, so it's more likely that, for some reason, you're not releasing into impact square enough and fast enough, then releasing into the forward catcher's mitt, toe up and up the tree when you swing through the ball into the catcher's mitt and up the tree.
It could be shafts that are too weak or too stiff. So you might want to find a good club fitter and get it check out.
I will say this. It is not very likely that just because you're a left hander playing right handed. Since you're truly left handed, when you play right handed, which is from the left side of the ball, in your case your left arm would be your more dominant arm in terms of strength, dexterity, and touch and control. That is the power arm and now you have that in your power position. I think that is actually an advantage to you as a left hander playing right handed.
The other reason why I always recommend that anybody who is a lefty try to play right handed to begin with is just the fact of equipment. You've been in golf shops, you been even to the big box outlets that sell golf equipment. When you walk in there, how many right handed clubs do you see versus left handed clubs? From drivers, irons, right down to wedges and putters. It could be 100 to 1. That's pretty poor odds to go through the rest of your golfing career trying to find decent golf equipment and pretty much always having to special order because there isn't much around. So just from that fact I would say you want to stay right handed.
More than anything you need to work on in the forward upswing swing the club into the forward catcher's mitt, toe up, and then up the tree. You are very likely coming through where you're not releasing to square and toe up after impact into the catcher's mitt fast enough, swinging to make the club square up and then swing up the tree, toe up.
Just as we take it away into the catcher's mitt and up to the tree, toe up, in the backswing, so must we also do that in the forward upswing. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. I would work on that toe up through impact in the forward swing to your finish.
I think that's probably your biggest issue. That should really start you hitting them more solid and more straight.
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