Butch Harmon and pro Tommy Fleetwood at last year's Masters. Getty Images If you’re hitting the ball right, Butch Harmon says, try to hit it left. And vice versa.
“I’m a great believer — and I learned this from my dad — in opposites,” he said. Harmon , a GOLF Top 100 Teachers hall of famer , was talking on a recently recorded episode of A New Breed of Golf on SiriusXM, and the subject was a much-discussed one: How to fix a slice. After his initial opposites thought, Harmon dove into what that looks like.
There are a few steps, said Tiger Woods’ one-time coach: — Use a stronger grip. “So if you’re a slicer,” Harmon said on the show, “normally you’ve got the clubface open too much, you’re a little over the top, your path is a little out to in, unless you’re hitting a big push from underneath. So I would really look at a person’s grip, I would strengthen their grip, get the top hand — which for me, being right-handed, left hand about two or three knuckles and the right hand under.
” — Use a more closed setup. — “Let them exit around their body as much as they can,” Harmon said on the show, “to try and get the clubface closed coming in.” Harmon also said he has two training devices.
The first is a club that’s a couple feet long — which can accentuate to a player the movement of the club face. “I have a club that’s about ..
. just as long as a grip, and I use that a lot in reference to show people what their grip does to contro.
