Would you be interested in learning the optical trick that causes your golf slice and instantly fixes it? Or, would you like to spend the rest of your life reading golf books and magazines and videos and wearing imbecilic “Tin Cup” contraptions never finding the cure to your dreaded golf slice until you go to Heaven and your headstone reads: “He was never able to stop his golf slice.”?
Why is your self-worth based on your most recent round of golf, don’t you think? When you mow a lawn that is overgrown with weeds, the weeds always return. To avoid having your slice returned repeatedly, it’s critical to address the root of the issue. To remove weeds from the root, you must kneel down and use a $2 weeder. It’s critical to understand the optical illusion causing your slice and how to fix it with a single action. Once your life-destroying slice has passed, you can rebuild your self-confidence.
Have you had 500 golf lessons to cure your slice each time thinking “I’ve got it!” after hitting a couple of nice straight shots and ending the lesson on a high note only to have your slice return like a bad cold the next time you visit the links? Every time this pattern recurs, do you feel like a total moron?
Golf instructors are plentiful and excellent. Where are they, are they under a rock like the financial advisor who stole your retirement fund?
Golf is said to have five essential components. Let’s say that when your golf pro examines your setup, he or she notices that your shoulders are aligned to the left. He then notices that your left wrist is cupped as you take the club back outside. Then you descend from outside in, slicing repeatedly across the ball. Ask yourself this: “Is it in my golf pro’s best financial interest to immediately fix everything, or would he make more money by letting me endure this chronic agony for the rest of my life?” Ask him?
Okay, it’s time to instantly and completely end your misery for nothing. Take your address position, concentrate now. Look at your hands on the ground. What direction does the slit on your left thumb and index finger point? You do realize that it should be pointing at your right shoulder, and it is, don’t you? False, it’s the optical illusion that’s ruining your marriage, keeping you at the range until dusk, and your life.
Spend the first year of your golf career practicing your grip, advises Arnold Palmer in his book. To get the club to cock up properly on the backswing, you need to place the heel pad of your left hand above the grip and lay the grip from the middle pad of your index finger to just above your pinky. But you already knew that.
You should now return to your address position. Look at your hands and pay attention to the direction that the slit between your thumb and index finger points. Right shoulder is where it’s pointing, I assume. False, this optical illusion is what throws off the alignment of your shoulders and your golf swing, leading to your slice. Here’s how to stop slicing your golf balls into the correct sand and forest traps and get rid of it instantly. Using your hands, raise your 7 iron from your address position until the head of the club is pointing upward and the shaft is perfectly vertical to the ground. Now remove your right hand from the club. What is the direction of the slit between your left thumb and index finger? “My God, it’s pointing at my chest! At address, my shoulders are opening up due to my shaky grip, which forces me to take the club back outside and slice. My God! I’m cured!”
You should now turn your left hand slightly counterclockwise and to the right until the slit is pointing at your right shoulder. Do not move your hand past this point, however, or you will hook. Your shoulders will suddenly be parallel to the line, your club will return to the ball on the right path, and your slice will no longer be present. A lifetime of adjusting your shoulder alignment, golf swing, and making various adjustments because, when you look at your hands at address, an optical illusion tricks you into thinking that your slit is pointing at your right shoulder when, in fact, it is pointing at your chest. Your golf instructor isn’t to blame; he was also ignorant of this. He is vulnerable to the same optical illusion from where he is. For millions of years, people believed that the earth was flat, so give the guy a break. The shape of the earth resembles a golf ball, but nobody knew this. It is illogical.