Stop Your Slice For Good Day 1!

With Tyson Deskins from 419 Golf

A common issue I see with players who struggle with slicing the golf ball is how their forearms are positioned in their setup, and how they rotate them in their backswing. If you are a right-handed golfer, the first thing I’m going to look at is where your left radius bone(see images below) is positioned in relation to the shaft, and then your right radius bone. Many times when these get out of whack it’s simply how you are gripping the club. It’s one of the reason’s I will tell players, our grip is not what magically makes the ball flight different, it’s what changing the grip does to the position of the forearms, and how that change affects how the forearms move/rotate in our swing that changes the ball flight. I have seen plenty of golfers who have had a super strong grip, see all 4 knuckles of the lead hand, the trail hand is way under the shaft, and they still slice the ball off the planet! Lol In today’s video I’m going to show you what to look for in your backswing as far as your forearm rotation goes and give you a few drills to change how they are moving if you fit in this category. If after you watch this video you feel this is not your issue, don’t worry, I will cover the most likely issue in one of the upcoming days! Below are a couple of pictures describing the forearms and wrists from an anatomical standpoint. This will make sense when you watch the video. Thank you for watching!


 

Supination is an anatomical term of motion for the rotation of the forearm or foot. When you turn your palm or sole so that it faces forward of your body, it is supinated. It comes from the root word of supine, It is the opposite of pronation


In the upper limb, pronation is the rotatory movement during which the palm and forearm face downward. The forearm is the part of the upper limb below the elbow joint.

The radius is one of the two bones that make up the forearm, the other being the ulna.