Stop Slicing the Golf Ball Forever: 3 Fixes Every Golfer Needs, Backed by AI
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If you’re like most golfers, you’ve battled the dreaded slice—that frustrating left-to-right ball flight (for right-handers) that sends your shots sailing into the rough, trees, or worse. Whether it’s your driver slicing off the tee or irons curving offline, the slice is one of the most common and stubborn swing faults in golf.
In this video, we’ve teamed up with GolfSwings.AI—the world’s most advanced AI-powered golf swing analyzer—to show you how to fix it once and for all. Alongside golf coach to the stars Dion Kipping, we break down three of the most important movements contributing to a golf slice, and show you exactly how to correct them. No gimmicks, no swing theory fluff—just real data and actionable drills that will finally eliminate your slice.
Fix #1: Shoulder Tilt at Setup
One of the biggest causes of slicing the golf ball begins before you even start your swing. Improper shoulder tilt at address leads to poor balance and encourages an inside takeaway followed by an over-the-top downswing—the classic outside-in swing path that produces a glancing blow and an open clubface at impact.
Using GolfSwings.AI’s motion capture and pose estimation, we show you the optimal shoulder tilt range: between -1° and +10°. Too much positive tilt (often over 15–20°) shifts your body off balance, making it almost impossible to bring the club back on plane. Dion demonstrates two simple drills to get your tilt in the perfect range, setting the foundation for a square, powerful impact.
Fix #2: Eliminate Hip Sway on the Backswing
Hip sway is a major issue for amateur golfers trying to build a consistent and repeatable swing. When your trail hip drifts laterally away from the target during the backswing, it destroys your ability to create ground force and use your lower body effectively in the downswing.
GolfSwings.AI automatically flags excessive sway using biomechanical landmarks—specifically looking at the trail shin and quad alignment. Dion shares a brilliant drill taught to him by Jason Day: place a club grip on the ground and set your trail foot on it at an internal angle. If your hips sway, your foot will roll, providing immediate feedback. This drill teaches you to pivot around your trail leg, not away from it, giving you better rotation and more power.
We also show pro examples like Justin Rose, who rotates flawlessly around his trail leg, and Joe Hachem—yes, the poker legend—who worked hard to eliminate sway and now compresses the ball beautifully.
Fix #3: Lead Shin Angle at Impact
This fix is subtle but incredibly powerful. When you reach impact with a straight or neutral lead leg, your weight hasn’t transferred properly, and your clubface is likely to stay open. GolfSwings.AI tracks the lead shin angle, with an optimal forward lean of 3° to 10° at impact.
Dion explains that getting your belt buckle over your lead foot is key to creating this angle. Not only does this move help you stop slicing, it also increases compression, improves contact, and promotes a square clubface through impact. Most amateurs spin on the spot, staying on two feet and robbing their swing of efficiency and power. By simply learning to shift your pressure forward, you unlock both control and consistency.
Why GolfSwings.AI Is a Game-Changer
All of these fixes are backed by data—not guesswork. GolfSwings.AI analyzes over 300 biomechanical variables in your swing using computer vision and pose estimation. It instantly flags inefficient movements and compares your swing to elite players, helping you understand why you slice and how to fix it.
Rather than prescribing a one-size-fits-all solution, the AI gives you optimal movement ranges and multiple fix options tailored to your body and swing. It’s like having a tour-level swing coach in your pocket, 24/7.
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Slicing the Ball? Here’s What You’ll Fix Today:
Shoulder tilt alignment at address
Lateral hip sway in the backswing
Lead leg and shin angle at impact
Outside-in swing path mechanics
Open clubface at impact
Improper weight transfer
Lack of compression and inconsistent strike
Flat-footed finish and balance issues
Glancing blows with irons and drivers
Common beginner slicing errors
These are the core root causes of a slice—and they’re all fixable, quickly, with the right information and drills.
Today we’re going to use golf swings.ai to finally cure that slice. With me I’ve got golf coach to the stars, Dion Kipping. Good day to the stars. I love that. Well, Dion’s actually going to do some demonstrations today. That’s why we we’ve got him standing out there. Well, let’s get into it. Let’s get into the first movement. So, our first one is actually the easiest one to fix. This is a setup movement and it’s setting up with incorrect um shoulder tips. Okay, Dion, do you want to explain uh shoulder tilt to everyone out there? Yeah, look, if you stand with your shoulders level, that’s basically zero. And when you’re tilting forward, we’re into the negative. And when we’re tilting this way, we’re into the positive. And what it’s flagging is that if you get too much positive tilt to your shoulders is a major contributor to slicing. Um, which I find incredibly you can fix this at a dress. Now, have you got some optimal ranges there for me? No, I do. So, if I’m just looking at the app here, I’ve got a um an amateur golfer that’s setting up with too much spine tilt compared to spine shoulder tilt, but it does correspond to something too much shoulder tilt. Um so, uh and on the left, we’ve got him there who’s setting up in the optimal range. So, if I look at the optimal ranges, you can set up between minus1 and 10° and be in that optimal range. So, Dion there is demonstrating. Yeah. And and I think the thing about this is they are on a tilt, right? So, you do want a tilt. Okay. You just don’t want to have too much. Okay. And what’s the am got there? It’s it’s the amateur is sitting at nearly 20%. So 19.62. So well and truly outside the optimal rate. So you’ve got lots of lots of tilt. Now what does this do? Right. Well, as soon as you get too much shoulder tilt when you’re addressing the ball, what it usually leads to is a balance issue. You start to drag a club inside. And what happens when you drag a club inside? You actually do the opposite and you put it outside on the way down. And there is your glancing blow. So by setting up with too much tilt early here in the shoulders, you’re creating an inside outside kind of pattern. And for most people that then leads to keeping the face open she goes. There’s your there’s your nasty fly. So a simple, you know, fix to this. And this is the great thing. We’re up to the fix. It’s only a little bit. And and they’re in the app. You’ve got several fixes to this, but I’m going to give you two. Um here’s a real simple one. An old coach gave this to me and I just love it. Stand tall. Put the club on your sternum. Put it on your belt buckle and then bend a little bit forward. Then rock. Look. Hit your legs. Job’s done. There’s a perfect 10 degree basic tilt. It’s incredible that works, but it actually does. Right. That’s it. That’s your move. Okay. Um the other one that I give a lot of my students uh who are setting up, obviously you need your trail hand higher than your lead hand when you’re grabbing the club. So, usually just clap your hands so they’re level and then slide the trail hand down until you hit the webbing of the lead hand. Now, the beauty about that move is it kind of gives you a gauge when you’re holding the club. Okay? So, there’s two ways pieces of cake to do has immediate like fixes to your to your balance on your takeaway because without that much shoulder tilt. Okay? So, you get your you know proper shoulder tilt. There’s the arm starting to come away on a neutral plane. Too much shoulder tilt. There they go. Inside over the top. That’s fix number one. Okay. Fix number two or problem number two. Yeah. Um is hips sway. So this is obviously a common issue with amateur golfers. So I’m just going to um play a video here of an amateur golfer. Uh this is someone that was flagged in our system of as having too much hip sway. So as the golfer um sets up and they start their back swing, you can see that their back hip moves away from the target. So instead of turning around that hip, they’re swaying. So Dion, over to you. Yeah. Well, if you keep looking at the picture, I’ll l just keep toggling back and forth here. If you look at the pose estimation lines that golf swings.ai puts on your body, you’ll notice that the trail shin and trail um quad, the angles there get over the back foot. Now, why is that an issue? I’ll tell you why. If you come back and have a look now to me, once the trail leg gets over the trail foot, guess what? I can stand on one leg, which means I can’t push forward. Okay? I’ve got no way to use the ground force. Okay? So, all that does when you get to the top of the swing, it starts a rotational move because it’s a spinning move pushing nowhere. But if you go forward, you can rotate and have your lateral move. So, for me, such a big one, not getting that back leg over here, which is what the lateral sway on the machine highlights. Don’t get it over there. So, how do we fix it? Again, piece of cake. Fix this. Jason Day showed me this. There’s the grip of the club. Chuck it on the ground. All right. Put your foot, the trail foot on it on an internal angle. Okay. Once it’s on an internal angle, you can then make your back swing. But guess what? If you accidentally get lateral sway in the hips, watch my foot. You’re going to do yourself a mischief. You got to roll your ankle. So, that’s a real real indicator. Oh, I’ve moved laterally. I don’t want to do that. Okay, there’s the internal flex. Keep it internally flexed. and all of a sudden the hips start to rotate more on the spot. So you’re in a position to push, to drive, to use the ground force on the transition. So grip on the ground, stand on internal flex and turn fixed. So we’re going to show Justin Rose um who is the best pro we’ve measured um for turning around his his hip rather than swaying. So you can see there’s just no hip movement at all away and then he pushes through. The thing about Justin too, like um I was on tour a lot with Justin. I wasn’t on tour, but I was with Justin on tour. And what that means is I was in the nightclubs and bars when he was missing cuts. And we we were really quite quite good friends. And and one of the big things Justin worked on was having such an efficient back swing so that he could optimize his downswing. Now, we still see to this day him doing down swing moves because that’s his big problem with his chest. But he he gets himself in such a wonderful position via this pivot that he’s only down to one little thing he works on, which is his downswing move. So yeah, great great to see Jazzy got such a great pivot by the machines rankings. The other great pivoter is an amateur golfer, a famous one, won the 2005 World Series of Poker, Dion coaches him, Joe Hasham. Yeah, look Joey, if you’re watching this, bloody bravo to you because he’s the first to admit that his pivot was horrendous. He was a serial blocker off of the hips. This hip used to tr get traveling outside his back hip and then he’d get stuck and he was on Trackman uh all the time with glancing blows. That club path was always out to win. Well, he’s worked real hard. He’s now pivoting beautifully around the trail leg. He’s transitioning his way and he’s coming from inside the fly of the ball and it’s been a credit to him, but he’ll be pumped to hear that he’s in the top. Oh, I I know that he plays golf for big money. So, so that’s his secret weapon. You’re helping him. All right, on to the final movement here. And this is kind of related. This is your lead shin angle at impact. And it’s not getting your weight forward enough. So, if I demonstrate the um amateur golfer here making a swing, you can see that at impact their shin is pretty straight, facing a little bit away from the target. Um, and Dion, you might want to talk a little bit more about that. Just keep toggling there if you can, and you’ll you’ll see the back foot as well. So, I always look at cause and effect. So if you look at the front leg, which is the what AI has flagged as one of the biggest issues for slices, it’s very neutral, right? It doesn’t get obviously in a in a forward press there, but basically he’s on two feet, which means he’s flat footed. Now, McDon goes into the optimal ranges here, and he’ll let me know what that is, but I know it’s in a positive flex, right? Because once you get into a positive flex on that lead shin, you’ve transitioned some of your weight. Okay, what does that do? that allows the club to fall a little bit more in the down swing rather than move out in the down swing which is that that serial um cut swing. So what is the um the optimal for the for the front shin there? Yeah, I’ve just used the app to uh filter to that exact movement so that we can see. So you can see the amateur golfer on the right. You can see the professional that has some um some forward uh angle on their shin. So the optimal range is actually between 3 and 10°. So that’s quite a lot of uh of uh I guess forward bend of that shin angle. Yeah. And that that’s awesome because in 30 years in this game, I reckon I’ve seen a handful literally four or five people that have ever had too much let’s call it movement in that lower body to to get forward. Most people are always spinning on the spot and getting flatooted. So whilst people get nervous about moving laterally, it’s a major major reason that people become good at this game and stop slicing. So to see that needs to be on three to up to 10° um forward tilt is brilliant because I can’t um be strong enough on this. You got to get onto that front leg. Okay. So fixes for this. How do we do that? Um another easy tip, get your golf club, chuck it on the ground. Okay, take your stance and you’ll notice that basically the belt buckle is over the steel shaft. Okay, so if we get in our optimal range of the dress, that that buckle will probably move a little bit ahead of the um the club shaft. But when we make our back swing, you notice the buckle turns behind it. Now, I haven’t moved laterally. I’ve just turned, but yes, it’s behind it. Now, this belt buckle, can’t stress this enough, has to get over the front foot. We have to get it moving over the front foot. Okay? So, it’s a really great way to think about, okay, my belt buckle starts in the middle of my stance, but it’s got to go forward. Regardless of what sort of rotation you’ve got, it’s got to go forward. And that puts the shin on a 3° to 10° angle and into the optimal range. But moreover, what does it do to your swing? It allows the arms to fall, right? It stops chest rotation, which leads to the dreaded cut or occasionally the hook if you if you want to use your hands. Um, but nine times out of 10, it’s the big cut. So, we’ve got to get across to that side. So, get your belt buckle over your lead foot. And does that help with compression, Dian? We talk a lot about compression and bull flight with pros. Um, is that something that will help that? And and obviously I’m going to do two swings here. I’m going to do one that has these three faults and one that has these three fixes and you’ll just see the difference or you’ll hear the difference in compression, but you’ll also see the difference in compression because you’ll see me swipe across it. So, here’s the faults. Big shoulder tilt. Okay. Now, I’m going to move off the ball. Okay. Well, now I’m in real trouble cuz I’ve got so far to move to get that belt buckle over my front leg, which is nearly impossible from here. So, normally rotation kicks in and across the ball we go. So, that looks like this. Shoulders inside move on the back foot. You can almost hear it’s like a chip shot, right? Sort of slides under the ball. Now, I know I swung softly there, but point is it’s a glancing blow. The opposite to those three things, and they’re actually keys in my golf swing, is make sure that I set up with just a little bit of tilt. Okay? I don’t want too much, but I certainly don’t want any. Okay? So, set up in the optimal range, about 7° of tilt. Get it this way if you want. That’s okay. Into that. Now, don’t sway. Don’t sway. Use your trail leg to turn around it. I love that. That’s one of the biggest keys for me. I used to be a serial swayer. So, turn around the trail leg and then get moving. Get the lower body over the front foot regardless of how supple you are. Now, I’m nowhere near as supple as I used to be. So, for me, it’s just get forward. I used to try to get forward and spin, but now it’s just get forward. So, what that looks like, a little bit of shoulder tilt, turn around the back leg, get forward, and there’s the compression, right? You can hear the squish, and it just comes out a lot stronger. But more importantly, for you playing along at home, it’s not a glancing blow with an open face. It’s into the back of the ball with a square face, killing your slice. Now, we did promise we’re going to give you a bonus code at the end of this video. So, it’s coming up on screen now. If you enter that when you download the app, you can test these movements yourself and you’ve got three months free. Yeah. And honestly, you’re mad not doing it. I would have given anything from when I was trying to learn this game just to have some some fundamental facts. This isn’t telling you how to swing it. It’s giving you a zone, a a rough gauge of optimal ranges. And I just love it because of that cuz it’s not telling someone how. It’s just telling them you need and should be into this zone. And and I just love it for that. So get on board, try it yourself. Um I think you’ll be amazed and you’ll find some hopefully find some cures in there as well. Don’t hopefully we have cured life. Till next time.
