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5 Reasons 25,000+ Golfers Fixed Their Slice Without Changing Their Swing
A slice is an open clubface at impact, and your hands are the only thing connected to that face. Here are the five reasons golfers who had already watched every tip on the internet ended up fixing it from the grip instead.
Your Slice Starts In Your HANDS, Not Your Swing
Launch monitor data is consistent on this. The direction the clubface points at impact is the dominant factor in where your ball starts, and the gap between where the face points and where the club is traveling is what makes it curve.
So a slice is not a mystery. It is a face that is open relative to the path, on the same swing you have always made. And the only thing physically connected to that face is your hands.
Rotate your hands a couple of degrees and the face rotates with them, and it stays rotated all the way to impact no matter how good the swing in between looks. The equipment industry already knows this. It is why $600 draw-bias drivers exist, with weight moved into the heel to help the face close. They moved the weight because of your hands.
Go grab a club. Take your normal grip and look down at the hand closest to the end of the club. If your thumb runs straight down the top of the shaft and you can barely see any knuckles, that is a weak lead hand, and that is what opens the face.
The Tips Did Not Fail You. You CANNOT Think Your Way Through A Swing.
There are single YouTube videos on fixing a slice with four million views. Not four million across the category. One video. And the top comment under it, with over two thousand likes, is a golfer saying he watches roughly three and a half hours of golf tips a day and still tops his first four balls at the range.
That is not a man who lacks information. That is a man drowning in it. And it is not his fault, because of what almost every one of those tips has in common: they are all instructions for what to do DURING the swing. Shallow the club. Rotate through. Keep the lead wrist flat.
A golf swing takes under two seconds. You cannot run a checklist inside it. Any fix that depends on you thinking the right thought at the right moment has already failed on the first tee, where you are thinking about everything except your lead hand.
Which is why the fixes that actually stick are the ones you set BEFORE the swing starts. Your grip is the only part of golf you can be certain about while the club is still sitting still. Everything after that happens too fast to manage.
It Holds The Grip You CANNOT Hold Yourself
You can be shown the correct grip in a minute. Most golfers who slice have been shown it more than once. A lesson, a video, a friend on the range moving your hands for you.
And it works, for about four swings. Then you regrip, you waggle, you walk to the next tee, and your hands go back to the place they have been for twenty years. A checkpoint you have to remember loses to a habit you already built, every time.
The TrueGrip Trainer is one solid piece of molded polycarbonate, shaped so that the only way your hands sit on it comfortably is a neutral grip.
Your hands settle into place and then they stay there, not because you are concentrating but because there is nowhere else for them to go. Roll your lead hand under and it does not sit right. While it is on the club, the grip that opens the face is not available to you.
"Just Get A Lesson" Is Not Wrong. It Just Does NOT Come With You.
Ask about training aids in any golf forum and someone will tell you the best training aid is a single lesson. They are not wrong, and we are not going to argue with them. A good coach will spot your open face inside a few swings, which is faster than any video will.
But a lesson runs $75 to $150 an hour, and here is what actually happens at the end of it. The coach puts your hands in the right place, you hit ten good ones, you feel it, and you drive home. Tuesday you are on the range on your own and there is nobody there to put them back.
A lesson fixes your grip for now. It does not come to the range with you on Tuesday. That gap, between being shown the right grip and being able to hold it on your own, is the entire reason this thing exists.
And if the word crutch is in your head right now, good, because that is exactly what it is. You wear a brace while the thing heals and then you take it off. This clips on for your range session and comes off before you play. Most golfers need it for two or three weeks before the neutral grip starts feeling like their own.
Why THIS One And Not The Cheapest One On Amazon
The best-selling grip trainer on Amazon has over nine thousand ratings, which tells you the category works. Golfers do fix their grip this way. So the question was never whether a grip trainer helps. It is which one is still on your club in a month.
Every one of them teaches roughly the same hand position, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. The neutral grip is not proprietary. What separates them is whether the thing survives a real swing, stays put on the club, comes back off, and actually fits your hands.
| TrueGrip Trainer | Typical budget trainer | |
|---|---|---|
| Holds up to a full-speed swing | Solid molded polycarbonate, does not flex | Soft shells flex, and cracking at the thumb is a repeat complaint |
| Stays where you put it | Clamps to the grip | Slides and rotates on the shaft |
| Comes off to play | About three seconds, no tools | Some are built into a replacement grip and never come off |
| Fits jumbo and midsize grips | Standard through jumbo | Usually standard only |
| Fits larger hands | Sized for XL hands | The most common one-star complaint is that it is too small |
| Works on every full-swing club | Driver through wedge | Often one club only |
Right-hand column reflects the most common one-star complaints in public Amazon reviews of the best-selling grip trainer in this category.
Those are not marketing categories. They are the five things golfers complain about in the one-star reviews of the cheap trainers on that shelf: it cracked, it spun on the shaft, it never came off, it would not go around a jumbo grip, and it was too small for a grown man’s hands.
$39.99 • 30-day money-back guarantee • Right-handed and left-handed
So What Is The Downside?
Best case
Your lead hand stops rolling under, the face starts coming back square, and the ball stops leaking right. Nothing else about your swing has to change.
Worst case
It turns out your slice was mostly swing path. You send one email and get every penny back.
30 days. Put it on and find out.
Thirty days from the day it arrives. If your ball flight has not tightened up, email us and we will refund you. No photos of your scorecard required.
Questions golfers ask about fixing a slice
Will a grip trainer fix my slice?
It fixes the grip half of a slice, which for most golfers is the larger half. A slice comes from an open clubface relative to the swing path. Your hands set the face, so holding a neutral grip squares the face up. It does not change a swing path, so if you also swing steeply from outside to in, you will improve the ball flight without eliminating the curve entirely.
Why do I slice the ball every single drive?
Because the cause is your setup rather than your swing. A grip that is a couple of degrees off is a couple of degrees off on every swing you make, which is why the miss is so repeatable. Golfers usually describe it as chronic for exactly this reason.
How long does it take to fix a slice with a grip trainer?
The grip itself is corrected the first time you put it on. Building the feel so it holds without the trainer is the part that takes time, and most golfers report that landing somewhere around two weeks of regular reps.
Does the TrueGrip Trainer fit jumbo or midsize grips?
Yes. It fits standard, midsize, oversize and jumbo grips, and it is sized for larger hands. Fit is the most common one-star complaint on cheaper trainers, so it was the first thing designed around.
Can I use it on every club?
Every full-swing club, driver through wedge. It is not designed for putters.
Will I become dependent on it?
It is a training aid, so it comes off before you play. The usual pattern is to use it for warm-up swings and range sessions, then take it off for the round. If your grip slips back over time, put it on for a bucket and reset it.
Is it available for left-handed golfers?
Yes, there is a left-handed version. Check the product page for current availability.
What It Costs
A lesson with a teaching pro runs $75 to $150 for the hour, and when the hour is up your hands are on their own again.
A new driver runs $450, and a draw-bias head can only nudge the face. It cannot do anything about where your hands set it.
The TrueGrip Trainer is $39.99, once, and it holds the grip for you on every club and every rep for as long as you own it.
Knowing the right grip was never the problem. Holding it was.
$39.99 • 30-day money-back guarantee • Right-handed and left-handed
The TrueGrip Trainer is a training aid. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by any tour player, tournament or governing body.