Scottie Scheffler’s coach swears by this simple anti-slice drill

Welcome to Shaving Strokes, a GOLF.com series in which we’re sharing improvements, learnings and takeaways from amateur golfers just like you — including some of the speed bumps and challenges they faced along the way.

I slice, you slice, we all slice out on the golf course — and if you’re a mid-to-high handicapper, there’s a good chance that it’s causing all sorts of frustration during a round … and higher scores!

But there’s more to a round of golf than hitting a shot and subsequently spending three minutes searching for your ball on the outskirts of the rough. While it might not feel that way at times, trust me, deep down, it exists for all of us.

While there are plenty of reasons why you’re a chronic slicer of the golf ball, when you can fix the root cause — opening the clubface — you’ll instantly see positive results and more fruitful outcomes. And thanks to Scottie Scheffler’s coach, GOLF Top 100 Lifetime Achievement Teacher Randy Smith, you can do just that.

Scottie Scheffler’s coach, Randy Smith, says this will stop your slice

Instead of doing wholesale changes in your golf swing, Scheffler’s long-time coach says there’s a simple drill that can eliminate your slice, get you to feel the proper takeaway and swing path, and will lead you to more natural draws — something every golfer strives for.

In the video above, Smith works with GOLF Top 100 Teacher Chris Como, explaining how this anti-slice drill works.

[Being] a slicer is one of the most critical errors, and everybody feels terrible about it,” Smith says. “A few things we can do [to fix a slice], and this has been my go-to forever, is just a basic alignment stick in the ground.”

Smith then demonstrates how to set up the drill, showing Como where to embed the stick into the ground so that the opposite tip of it is right on top of the golf ball. The image below shows how it should appear.