The One Move That Fixed His Slice: Driver Golf Swing Lesson

Struggling with a golf slice off the tee? In this golf lesson, we take Liam from a severe out-to-in path and weak fade to a much more neutral club path and straighter ball flight — all with one simple driver swing change.

You’ll see exactly how adjusting trail knee rotation and foot flare transformed his club path from 16° out-to-in to nearly square, improving attack angle, strike quality, and distance. Using Swing Catalyst data from the JD Golf Academy, we break down the before-and-after numbers so you can copy this move for your own driver golf swing basics.
Whether you fight a slice, hit weak fades, or lose distance because of poor body rotation, this drill will help you:

* Reduce excessive trail knee rotation
* Control sway and improve weight shift
* Use horizontal ground forces for more speed
* Neutralise your club path for straighter shots

This is one of the simplest and most effective driver golf swing tips you’ll ever try — and you can practice it both at home and on the range.
Question for you: When was the last time you took a golf lesson, and what did you work on? Let us know in the comments.

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getting past. Oh yes, blocky. You want to 
find out how we made such huge changes with Liam from getting him from this position to that 
position in such a short time? This is the video for you. It’s going to help you understand how 
you hit your drive straighter longer every time. And it’s done with a real simple trigger that 
might surprise you. Hope you enjoy this one. Question for today’s video. So, when was the last 
time you took a lesson and what did you work on? Let me know in the comments. Right knee at the 
address position. So, we’ve got 20° of rotation to the right knee. And then you’ve got 11° of 
rotation of the trail ankle. So, trail ankle turned out a lot. Flared a lot. Now, the whole 
premise of Liam is we’re looking to influence his swing direction. Yeah. Cuz club path was getting 
up to 16 and 10 out to him. So, when he squares the face to that, he hits the pull. When the face 
is obviously right of that, he hits the big weak left to right. So the goal of today’s lesson for 
Liam is to get him not so far from the outside on the way down and obviously through impact, not so 
far down. So if we can change his angle of attack, we can change his club path, he’s going to hit 
it considerably better and longer. So we can see at the top of the action like that right knee is 
fun 54 degrees rotated compared to a torpro that is 27. Yeah that’s amazing. So there is rotation 
in the right knee. Yeah. It’s just considerably less. And then in turn if you just take them 
to impact you can see that Liam just doesn’t get across. Yeah. So he’s too far right too late. 
Correct. So he’s too far behind the ball too late. Yeah. So if you’re adding in more rotation Yeah. 
He’s the classic over the top action. Yeah. Yeah. And obviously the more more lateral we can add 
in Yeah. the more that’s going to dampen push the path out towards. Yeah. Should we have a play? 
So without the ball for me there, Liam, just have a practice swing. Basically, don’t make a down 
swing. Just go up to the top of the back swing. Can you point your knee at me in the camera here? 
Okay. So, trail knee at the moment is pointing at the desk. Can you bring that trail knee in towards 
Yeah. So, let the right leg straighten. Just try not to rotate the right leg so much. Still. There 
you go. That’s better. So, you’re now less behind the ball. Any shift towards the target this way 
is going to be winning where you were with the right knee facing kind of the stricksen. Well, 
that’s convenient. How awkward. The strixen logo. I just want to stop it there. Look what Liam 
does to his feet. See how he selfassesses? He self adjusts with his feet. Turns lead foot out 
more. Trail foot straightens up to try and make sure his body is going to move that way. Less sway 
to tidy up his knee. He kind of self-discovered that. I love that in lessons. Yeah, that’s what 
we want. And we can see on the Swing Cat software here that that’s where we were. Well, if you 
looked at um Liam’s horizontal, which is the force we’re looking to get up. Yeah. I mean, 
it’s so weak. Yeah. He’s not using horizontal force. He can’t kick off his right foot at all. 
Yeah. Which is obvious from that position at the top. Yeah. Absolutely. Like he is not even That’s 
not a position that’s built to go that way. Yeah. Yeah. So, look, club paths down to eight 
out already. It was 16 on a couple of them. It’s literally having it with with a one for 
on the way back. There’s more that can be done. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. So again, 
turn the foot in resisting the right knee. So yeah, look, big jump. 12 13 8 7 Yeah. So 
it’s 40% better already. Yeah. So you’re giving yourself a chance of doing what you want to do 
on the down swing. Yeah. Like you’re you’re just giving yourself a go. It doesn’t mean it’s 
going to make it happen. You could still get across more and do all the other things that you 
guys worked on. Yeah. But with that runaway knee, you’re giving yourself no chance. You would 
have to be the best athlete we have ever seen to recover that position. Well, you can’t you can’t 
add right side tilt in that point. We need to add right tilt in. Yeah. Exactly. Which is going 
to make that club come from a different path. So top of back swing midpoint of lesson here 
you’re 44 knee turn where you were 52 and the right ankle significantly better and the right 
ankle significantly better. What happened to any sway with that shift in the way he turned the 
right knee much less sway off the ball in the back swing. What are they call them out for us? 
N negative after. So he’s away or towards target? Away slightly still away from target versus whole 
two inches. So he’s his shift is changing. So he’s not swaying off the ball as much. And then by 
contact we’re negative.3 in terms of sway which we’d want to see two to four across, wouldn’t 
we? Minimum. Yeah. Versus 1.6 positive. Oh, we’re getting there. That’s why that shifted. That’s why 
path is down. Not even having to think about path. you that will just fix path but to you I presume 
the surprising thing is that is still 44 rotated you don’t feel like it’s rotated at all so this 
is where you can just really push the feeling one thing I do if you set yourself up to that ball 
that’s your right knee pointer oh I see don’t let your right knee run away from that so do one 
so all good practice swings come from you doing a good one. Yeah. But you need to do a bad one 
as well. And where’s bad? Yeah. I can feel it. Yeah. So, when you do your practice swings, try 
to do always both of them. Oh, I see what you’re saying. Get a feel for both because you you can 
feel where better is when you do wrong. If you only do what is right, you’re kind of not really 
it becomes mindless. It becomes like force. This is forcing you to do it. I want you to not do 
it and then I want you to do it. Yes. So that’s a shift already. If we could get that right 
trail that trail knee uh rotation in the 30s, this is shifting even more back. So we’ve just 
gone a little bit aiming right. Yeah, absolutely. Just move the grid a little right. And we’ve got 
the tree the knee trigger on the floor. Perfect. Oh, we’re shifting 5.8. Eight. And now the 
attack angle is going more positive. And the attack angle’s coming up. That’s it. I 
know you catch the ground a bit with that, but that’s an easy fix. Yeah. Five. These are 
so much better numbers. And look what’s happened to the curvature of the shot. I know you didn’t 
get all of that. It’s just taking the curvature off. Yeah. Yeah. Bit further right. Cool. Go 
top and hold. Okay. Yeah. Get across. Yeah, that is the one thing I do. I struggle. 
Yeah, that’s right. Go. See it. Cool. Yeah. Not bad. Right knee’s loosening up. 
So, what will happen is your right knee will just get looser and looser the more 
shots you hit. Yeah. Cuz it feels comfy, which is the main point. Again, 80% off to 
20% hitting balls would be how you would shift this where in here it’s like 90% hitting balls. 
Didn’t quite get all that conversation on camera. The point I’m making is that for lots of golfers 
hitting golf balls, you know, going to the range, the fun bit is not always as constructive as it 
needs to be. Some of the best students I’ve had over the years are the ones who are spending more 
time off course really rehearsing and then making every shot really valuable. So it’s like 70% offc 
course training 20% in front of the ball. Putting high value on each shot rather than thinking it’s 
how many shots I’ve hit. Great way for all of us with limited time as well. Really good way to try 
and get those changes made even when you’re not at the course or the range. So, we’ve also said in 
terms of your external mobility in here, it’s not great, is it? No. No. No. So, you’ve got a couple 
of planing methods in golf swing, that being one, which now obviously you haven’t got wrist angles, 
which you have got. Yeah. But if we’re taking away the big one of the trail arm external, 
well, let’s not over complicate this. Let’s just pick that grid up and move it. Right. Yeah. 
Yeah. That seems pretty logical to me. Yeah. So, let’s make sure ball doesn’t go too far forward. 
Let’s move the grid to the right. Keep the trail arm soft. And then put your put your good right 
knee on it. That’s probably overdone with the alignment limb. Just a tad. And your right foot 
could tidy a little. Yeah, that’s it. Well done. Cool. Yeah. So, that’s quite a different path. 
Yeah. There we go. Down to two. We had one before at zero. They’re mega numbers. I always say 
to students, if you can keep these numbers in the twos, happy days. We’re not going to be too 
far upset. Correct. Then we can just square the face to that. Yeah. So again, a little bit 
right with the grid. Soften the trail arm. Beautiful. Okay. Now control the knee. Yeah. 
That’s going to probably stay a little right, but the path was Yeah. So face was wrong, which is 
understandable. You’ve gone from 16 14 out to in to zero one into out. Yeah. You just get the face 
working which if you hit enough balls with those two numbers come apart that face will just fall 
into line. Your body will got enough coordination for that face to jump in. The problem you have 
if that face is what feels comfortable then this number does have to be like 13 across. Yes. 
Otherwise you don’t hit the playing field. Yeah. So you need to do exactly what you’re doing 
there enough times so that falls into place. Yeah, but it’s two across. Yeah, but 
look at and look at face zero. Path two, angle of attack zero. Apart from strike, there’s 
nothing offensive about those numbers at all. Oh yes, blocking. Yes, face a little open, but 
look at the path. Look at the path. And 2.4 up. That is so different. Way numbers at 2.3 
across. Yeah. Compared to minus 2.3. I mean, that’s just a massive change in that time. 
Huge. It’s fundamental. That is a fundamental difference. That’s so good. What a change there 
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you should be hitting your driver. This one is getting some comments. I 
think it’s blowing people’s minds a