Your March 08' newsletter is here, and this month we are discussing how to hit straighter shots.* It's the start of the season for some, and you may find yourself popping up some of your shots. Or if you have been playing and you are hitting pop-up slice shots, the cause for both may have to do with your swing plane. If your swing is excessively steep, the result is a pop-up or pop-up slice. Here are some tips to help correct the steep swing so you can knock that ball straight down the middle:

1. Hold your driver across the top of your chest and make your backswing turn so that the shaft points roughly a foot and half outside, or beyond, the ball.
2. Return to your address position and repeat the turn.
3. Do this until you ingrain the correct turning move into your motion.

This is the correct way to turn your shoulders if you're looking to flatten out a steep swing (Note: you don't want the shaft to point directly at the ball.) If this doesn't cure your pop-up or pop-up slice, then you may have other issues, but grooving a flatter swing plane will get you started in the right direction.

Now go out and play better golf!

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*Jim Hardy GOLF Magazine