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A slice in golf is the most common miss for amateur golfers. For a right-handed golfer, it is simply a shot that flies with a curvature to the trail side. Let's look a little more closely at this and the most common golf swing fault that most associate with a slice.
Most amateur golfers have a swing plane that is horizontally shifted toward the lead side of the target line with a swing path that is working out to in at impact. That's the wordy definition of an over the top slice in golf, let's visualize what is happening through impact using the capture from my launch monitor below.
Club face angle and path are what are most important here. The path of the golf club is traveling 2 degrees toward the lead side, or what is commonly referred to as "out to in" or "over the top". The club face angle at impact is 5.1 degrees open. This is effectively "cutting across the ball" with an open club face which causes the golf ball spin axis to tilt toward the trail side. Tools like the AI swing analyzer can measure your exact path and face angle numbers instantly, so you know precisely what you're dealing with.
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Club face angle and path are what are most important here. The path of the golf club is traveling 2 degrees toward the lead side, or what is commonly referred to as "out to in" or "over the top". The club face angle at impact is 5.1 degrees open. This is effectively "cutting across the ball" with an open club face which causes the golf ball spin axis to tilt toward the trail side. Tools like the AI swing analyzer can measure your exact path and face angle numbers instantly, so you know precisely what you're dealing with.
The ball only spins in one direction and it spins around its axis. Many golfers believe that a ball has both backspin and sidespin, but this is simply not possible.
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