Irons are perfect. is this normal?
it's pretty normal i used to have the same problem. Irons are more forgiving because A. they have more loft and B. you have a different swing plane with them because the shafts are shorter on irons. Try having a stronger grip on your driver, meaning the V of your left hand (The V is formed by the space between your pointer finger and your thumb on your left hand, if youre a righty) is pointed towards your right shoulder. OR get a full shoulder rotation, try to get your left shoulder, at the top of your backswing, to the position where your right shoulder was at setup. this will make sure you had a good shoulder rotation and weight shift. ALL OF THIS IS IF YOU'RE RIGHT HANDED!
Ok, very common problem. The reason you tend to slice your diver and not your irons are for a couple of reasons. 1. Your irons are more lofted and create backspin. The loft and the backspin helps negate or lower the sidespin. The sidespin causes the slice. 2. Slice is caused by not closing the club head at impact and swinging on a outside-in path. Most people see the driver with a massive club head and the ball all nice and teed up swing for the fences. By doing so you may not have the time for your hands to close the club head. To fix this you need to do a couple of things. 1. Control your tempo. When you swing harder your tempo gets out of sync. Go for smooth and controlled. slow backswing, smooth and controlled forward swing. This will give your hands a chance to close the club head and also prevent an outside-in swing path. The distance is gained through a larger backswing, aka. shoulder rotation. Power is determined by how far back you can rotate your shoulders to create the power coil. It's not about muscles but about flexibility. See if controlling your tempo helps straighten out your driver. If your still are slicing then you need to work on your right wrist rolling over your left (for righties). If you look at a baseball swing, a baseball player rotates his right wrist over his left before impact. It's the same in golf. Stand straight up and take baseball swings with your club and feel your right wrist rolling over your left. That's the same feeling your looking for on your drive. Take a few baseball swings before your driver to remind your body to roll the wrists and it should help you hit the ball straighter. Good Luck.
A large part of the reason that many golfers (especially amateur) slice their driver is because they get in front of the ball. As you swing, you probably sway a forward on the downswing. This little sway causes you to take a much steeper swing path and your shoulders and arms try to catch up to your hips. Furthermore, this steep swing will cause you to cut across the ball, resulting in a nasty slice. A good way to stop this is to address the ball the way you normally do and then tilt your shoulders back a hair. This tilt will help you stay behind the ball. If this doesn't work take a bit larger stance and make sure the ball is just inside of your left foot. The reason that this doesn't happen with your irons is because a little sway with the irons does not have the same impact because of club length and the design of irons. Irons are more forgiving than drivers, but be careful because usually a bad driving game forecasts poor iron shots. All you need to do is take a bucket to the range and practice the shot with the tips I gave and commit the swing to muscle memory. Golf is a very finicky game and a small problem like the sway on the downswing can really hinder your drives. Good luck and I hope this helps!
