What ball flight tendency can be expected from hitting a ball lying below the feet?

What ball flight tendency can be expected from hitting a ball lying below the feet?

• A. Draw
• B. Hook
• C. Push slice
• D. Fade

Answer: (C)

Hitting a ball that sits below your feet makes your swing more upright, which tends to produce an outside-to-inside path on the downswing. For a right-handed player, that path often starts the ball to the right of the target and then the spin makes it curve further right. In golf terms, that combination is a push slice: the ball initially moves toward the right and then slices away from its target. To counter, you’d work on adjusting your alignment and/or ball position to encourage a more inside-to-out path or a less open face at impact.

Hitting a ball that sits below your feet makes your swing more upright, which tends to produce an outside-to-inside path on the downswing. For a right-handed player, that path often starts the ball to the right of the target and then the spin makes it curve further right. In golf terms, that combination is a push slice: the ball initially moves toward the right and then slices away from its target. To counter, you’d work on adjusting your alignment and/or ball position to encourage a more inside-to-out path or a less open face at impact.