HOW TO CURE
THE SLICE
AT THE MOMENT OF IMPACT
THE HANDS WORK NOT TOGETHER
BUT AGAINST EACH OTHER
"At the moment of impact the club is at right angles to the line of flight, and if the club-head subsequently gains on the hands before the ball has left it a slice will result. Therefore the hands must go forward and, in addition, the grip of both hands should be fierce so as to overcome the inertia of the ball. The clubhead should be in contact with the ball as long as possible and should travel along the line of flight as far as possible." Abe Mitchell Personal instructor to Samuel Ryder, St. Albans
- AT THE MOMENT OF IMPACT
- THE HANDS WORK NOT TOGETHER BUT AGAINST EACH OTHER.
- "It is to be regretted that many writers use the term "fundamental"
- loosely when discussing matters of style, individual mannerisms,
- or other important, but not fundamental, aspects of golf.
- SLICE: The ball starts out to the right, usually at a very sharp angle,
- rising at a normal height, and continues to curve to the right.
- The fault is that the club comes into contact
- with the ball facing very much to the right
- of the intended line of play
- because the club handle is ahead of the club head.
- CAUSE: The left hand is failing in its function
- as a fulcrum against which the right hand strikes.
- A fulcrum is a support around which a lever turns.
- A golf club is a lever and driving a ball is leverage.
- In leverage there are three essentials:
- (1) the resistance to be overcome (the ball's inertia),
- (2) the power that drives the lever (this is supplied by the right hand),
- and (3) the fulcrum (this is the left hand).
- AT THE MOMENT OF IMPACT
- the hands work not together but against each other.
- Immediately prior to and during the MOMENT of the club's contact
- with the ball, the right hand speeds up the club head.
- It cannot do this if the left hand
- fails to offer a backward resistance
- against the upper end of the club handle.
- Of course, while this forward pressure of the right hand
- and backward resistance of the left is going on,
- the sweep of the arms and the turning of the body
- are carrying both hands forward through the swing.
- Nevertheless, the hands do work decidedly
- against each other.
- If they don't, the club handle will go
- through ahead of the clubhead
- and a slice will be the result." Dunns of Musselburgh
- This code of golf instruction originated in the year 1897.
- It was published and copyrighted in the year 1907.
- "Dunn was tutored by Tom Morris"
- By H. S. C. Everard, St. Andrews, 1890
- "How right he has been!"
- By Sir Henry Cotton, Penina, 1980
- The Sum Total = Good Golf
Download : "there can be no doubt about the truth of my indictment." By Dr. H. A. MURRAY, M.D. THE GOLF SECRET Copyright, A. G. ELLIOT Preface by ALGY EASTERBROOK Sidmouth Golf Club UK INTRODUCTION MCMLIII
HENRY COTTON SAYS:
"THE LEFT HAND RESISTS
THE HIT OF THE RIGHT HAND"
Download : "the left hand resists the hit of the right hand." and "The accent in my swing is ever on the wrists, which provide 85 per cent. of the speed, the
body only 15 per cent." By Sir Henry Cotton. Facts And Ideas, Sport & Country. 24.1.51 & STUDY THE GOLF GAME WITH HENRY COTTON Open Champion 1934, 1937, 1948, Country Life Limited London. Published in 1964
WALTER J. TRAVIS:
"THIS MOMENTARY STOPPAGE
IS NOT DISCERNIBLE TO THE EYE"
Download : "the hands in a way really work in opposition to each other at the crucial moment, the moment that counts, that of impact between the club-head and the ball, the left arm stopping at the wrist for an infinitesimal fraction of a second as the ball is struck, accelerating the speed of the clubhead. This momentary stoppage is not discernible to the eye, but it exists just the same." Building Up A Game, Fifth of a Series of Articles Taking Up in Complete Detail a Course in Golf Instruction By Walter J. Travis, THE AMERICAN GOLFER, 1920. U.S. Amateur Champion 1900, 1901, 1903. British Amateur Champion 1904. Cuban Amateur Champion 1913, 1914
THE DUNNS SAY:
"SLICERS SHOULD LEARN TO GET THE CLUB HEAD THROUGH ON TIME WITH THE HANDLE. IN THIS WAY THE SLICE WILL BE CURED"
Download : "Golf books and articles are poured out by the thousand, it seems, for there is no other sport in the world which is submitted to such an annual barrage of words the year round, the world over... I still have to be convinced that golf, for the world in general, means using more body than I teach, for I give the body only 15% of the effort to get speed, the arms, hands and wrists 85%. (Seymour Dunn, a great teacher and student, gave the same percentages)." HENRY COTTON My Golfing Album THE GOLF SECRET Country Life Limited London 42s. net Page 30 Published in 1959
"Where, I think, the beginner starts off on the wrong foot in setting about attacking a golf ball, is that he imagines that he has to generate a movement in which, at the climax - i.e., the impact - his shoulders, arms and wrists will all be moving at their fastest. Here is the greatest mistake of all in golfing theory. It is not correct to sweep "the whole lot through."" Henry Cotton
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"The golf stroke is the result of a combination of leverages - it is compound leverage. The club is one lever actuated from the left wrist. The left arm is another lever actuated from the shoulder joint. The left shoulder is another lever actuated from the spinal column. The right shoulder, right arm, and right hand operate or drive thru the club, left arm, and left shoulder levers." Seymour Dunn
"E. R. W." SAYS:
"CORRECT HITTING OF THE BALL DWARFS IN IMPORTANCE ANY POINTS OF DETAIL, CONTRIBUTARY AS THEY ARE, SUCH AS STANCE, GRIP, ETC."
Download : 'Golf Medicine from Master Doctors Which Hand Does the Work?' "In carrying the club on down and through the ball the sweep of the arms must be coordinated with the turn of the body back toward the left. If the body turns too fast, it gets ahead of the arms and a slice inevitably results. This is what happens where the right arm and side push around too rapidly. The left side with a pull from the shoulder sets the pace and the right side must not be allowed to crowd it too much. But there is a job for the right in putting a snap into the stroke with a quick forward bend of the wrist just as the clubhead is coming against the ball. This is right hand pure and simple and accounts for extra distance." By Jock Hutchison THE AMERICAN GOLFER LA84 Foundation
"If the right shoulder comes underneath, the right hand hits really hard, and the left hand resists it, and holds the clubhead square a fraction longer. So you must hit the ball straight. But if that shoulder lurches round, or comes over the top, you are in trouble. The effect is much the same as that suffered when the left hand collapses, and it goes without saying that if the left hand does collapse, the right shoulder can only come round, rather than underneath." Dave Thomas Winner Belgian Open 1955, Dutch Open 1958 and French Open 1959
Download : 'On Dave Thomas' by Henry Cotton
"Another cause of the slice is neglect to square the club face and hitting with the palm of the right hand upwards and the hands not in opposition to each other. This square opposition of left and right hands is important in assisting them through on the correct path. The remedy lies in improving the position of your hands in the grip and adopting the correct technique for hitting the ball." "E. R. W." 1947
"A desirable instantaneous mental impression at contact has been described as "giving the ball the back of the left hand". I prefer to think of it as "giving the ball the front of the right", which is very much the same thing. It is really a different mental conception of a similar physical action. It all sounds very involved and profound, but think about it." "E. R. W." 1947
