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Video Tutorial: Do You Suffer from a Slice?

Written by  Andrew Wild on Tuesday, 20 September 2011
If you suffer from a slice, we can show you an exercise with the Power Tee that really will help.




It's got a unique system of being able to change the tee height, and you can actually change it to a very high position. Greg Norman was famous many years ago for changing his golf swing and getting rid of his slice by hitting golf balls on the side of a slope. 

You see, if you are slicing the golf ball, it means that when you're coming down into the golf ball the club is too steep, and it comes across the ball imparting that side spin. 

If you hit the golf ball off a side slope, automatically you have to come into the golf ball shallower, and that change of attack on the golf ball gets rid of the slice and turns it into a draw.

With the high tee system on the Power Tee, we can almost simulate that same effect.

So this is currently on the lowest setting. It's got four presets, and I'm going to take it to the highest one. You'll see for an iron that's extremely high, but that's to our benefit here. If I use my old swing plane and come in too steep, I'm going to go under that golf ball, just about hit the top of the club, and get a very poor result. I've got to shallow out that swing a place a lot, in order to strike the ball at the middle of the golf face. And if I can do that, I will change the swing place and as a result I will change the shot - let me show you.

So here now with that higher tee position, I'm going to hover the club up to that golf ball here so it simulates that slope I was talking about a moment ago. Now if I can train myself to shallow my swing plane out coming in, I can just meet the golf ball right in the middle and I know I've changed my angle of attack, I've changed the spin on the golf ball, and there's every chance I will reduce the slice - I may even get a draw.
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Andrew Wild

Andrew Wild

Andrew manages all aspects of Sandford Springs including Food and Beverage, Golf, Finance and Memberships.

Andrew originally met the Chairman, Paul Gibbons, when he was an assistant Golf Pro at Reading Golf Club 28 years ago.

Interestingly, 15 years later Andrew was giving Paul a series of lessons, during which he mentioned there was a club in Hampshire which was up for sale. After going to visit the club, Mr Gibbons ended up buying Sandford Springs. 

Andrew joined the company a couple of years later and six years on, he became the General Manager at the club they had first discussed all that time ago.

Andrew has a deep passion for the game of golf, which aids his enthusiasm in all his endeavours at Sandford Springs. Aside from playing, he enjoys simply being around the golf club and takes a great interest in looking after his members.

He believes that the atmosphere at Sandford Springs is second to none and finds it such a pleasure to be involved with the club that, in his own words – "Sometimes it doesn't even feel like work".

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