Slice Killer — Release Gate
🔧 Ball-Flight FixesBeginner3 sets of 8 balls
What it fixes: Stop the slice — square an open face and quit swinging across it.
How to do it
- Lay a headcover just outside the ball so you can't swing over the top down into it
- Stick a tee a ball-width outside the toe as a gate — clear it by releasing the face
- Make slow swings feeling the toe pass the heel through impact and the glove logo turn down to the ground
- Then hit balls trying to START the ball right of target and draw it back — over-correct the curve
Pro tip: Feel: swing the exit out to right-field and let the trail forearm roll over the lead — the exact opposite of your slice.
Watch it in your data
This drill moves Side carry / start line — track it session to session with the Carry Distance guide open. A drill without a measured before/after is a feeling, not a fix: hit a baseline block, do the drill, re-measure the same block.
Why this works: the mechanics behind it are explained in Face to Path — The single number that explains why your ball curves.
More ball-flight fixes drills
- Hook Fix — Body LeadsTame the hook — quiet the hands, keep the body turning through
- Fat & Thin Fix — Forward Low PointBall-first contact by moving your low point ahead of the ball
- Top & Thin Fix — Hold Your AnglesStop topping — keep your spine angle and knee flex through the ball
- Over-the-Top Fix — Pump & DropShallow the downswing so you stop coming across the ball
- Early-Extension Fix — Pocket BackKeep posture so the hips rotate instead of thrusting at the ball
- Casting Fix — Hold the LagStop releasing early — deliver the handle first for real compression
- Sway Fix — Turn in a BarrelRotate around your centre instead of sliding, for a steady low point
- Chicken-Wing Fix — Reach & ReleaseStop the bent lead arm at impact — extend for width and a square face