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Are you fighting a slice? Feel
the left wrist bowed at the top
Chris Riley is a rising star on the PGA Tour. A fourtime All American
at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Chris won his first PGA
Tour tournament in 2002 – the Reno-Tahoe
Open – and has been a steady performer since. At 5’11”
and 111/2 stone, Chris is not a big man. He’s known more
for his
excellent putting than for his power game, so to maximise distance,
he works extremely hard on his fitness.
Chris gets the club into an interesting position at the top of
the backswing, one that many amateurs, particularly slicers, might
want to copy. As the photo here shows, he bows his left wrist
and lays the club off so that the clubshaft points left of his
target. A
more conventional, or square, position is one in which the left
wrist has a slight cup at the base and where the clubshaft points
more down the line. Players who bow their wrists tend to hold
their release through impact to keep from hitting hooks.
If you play with a slice that is caused by an open clubface at
impact (your ball starts straight but then sails to the right),
try to feel the left wrist bowed at the top of the swing. That
promotes
a closed clubface and a right-to-left draw..
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