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I Watched a Tour Pro Warm Up and Finally Understood Why I'd Been Slicing for 6 Years

By Adam Steinberg

Last Updated March 2026

This isn't a swing tip. It's the thing I wish someone had shown me years ago.


I want to tell you about the moment my slice finally made sense.


Not the moment it got fixed β€” that came later. 

 

But the moment I understood, for the first time, what was actually causing it. 

 

Because until that point, I'd been throwing fixes at a problem I didn't really understand.


Six years of slicing. 

 

Hundreds of range balls. 

 

Three different coaches. A grip change that lasted four rounds.

 

An alignment stick phase. A "swing more left" phase.

 

A "swing more right to stop swinging left" phase that I don't talk about.


Sound familiar?

 

The Day Everything Changed


I was at the range early on a Saturday morning - one of those rare sessions where you've got the place almost to yourself.

 

Guy a few bays down starts warming up. 

 

Smooth, unhurried swing. 

 

Ball after ball, dead straight, effortless.


I wasn't paying close attention at first.


Then I noticed something tucked under his arms.

A small ball. Just sitting there between his forearms, staying put through his entire swing - takeaway, backswing, all the way through impact. Never moved. Never dropped.


I watched him hit maybe 15 balls. 

 

Then he pulled it out, took three practice swings without it, and went straight into his full warm-up. 

 

Same swing. Same ball flight.


I walked over between shots and asked him about it.


He laughed. "Connection drill. Been doing it since I was a junior. Every pro I know has done some version of it."


I'd never heard of it.

What He Explained Next Stopped Me Mid Swing

 

He asked me what my miss was.


"Slice," I said. "Been fighting it for years."


He nodded like he'd heard it a thousand times. "Your arms are probably coming off your body in the downswing. 

 

Club gets thrown outside, comes across the ball, face stays open. That's your slice right there."


I told him I'd tried strengthening my grip. Checked my alignment. 

 

Worked on swing path with two different coaches.
He shrugged. "Those are all real things. 

 

But if your arms are disconnecting, none of them will stick. You're just compensating around the root cause."


That word. Root cause.


It hit me because I'd never once thought about it that way. I'd been fixing symptoms for six years.

What Arm Connection Actually Does

Here's what I didn't understand before that conversation - and what most golfers never get told.


When your arms separate from your body in the downswing, your swing path changes automatically. 

 

The club gets thrown to the outside, and the only way back to the ball is across it β€” outside to inside. That cutting action is what puts the left-to-right spin on the ball. That's your slice.


And because the arms have disconnected, your forearms can't rotate properly through impact either. So the clubface stays open. Which makes it worse.


The grip tip doesn't fix it because the grip isn't the problem. The alignment change doesn't fix it because the path is being created by the disconnection, not your setup. 

 

The "swing more inside" tip doesn't fix it because your arms are still coming off your body the moment any pressure goes on.


You fix the disconnection, and most of those problems fix themselves.

Why Feel Matters More Than Thought

 

I went home that Saturday and tried to replicate the drill with a soccer ball I found in the garage. Felt completely foreign. Awkward. Like my swing had been put in a straitjacket.


But I kept at it. And after a few sessions something shifted.


I stopped thinking about connection and started feeling it. My body learned what it was supposed to feel like when everything was working together. And β€” slowly β€” that feeling started showing up in my normal swing without the ball.


The slice didn't disappear overnight. But it started shrinking. The ball started going somewhere close to where I was aiming. And for the first time in years, I wasn't standing on the tee with a knot in my stomach.


The problem wasn't my grip. It wasn't my alignment. It wasn't my swing path.


It was that my arms had been flying off my body on every single swing β€” and I had absolutely no way of knowing.

The Tool That Made It Stick

The garage soccer ball worked well enough to show me the concept. But it was too big, too awkward, and kept deflating at the wrong moment.


The PureStrike Performance Ball is what actually made the habit stick.


It's built specifically for this drill - the right size, the right weight, sits perfectly between your forearms. 

 

If your arms connect properly through the swing, it stays put. The moment they separate β€” it drops. Instant, honest feedback every single rep. No guessing. No video review. No swing thoughts.


It's the same arm-connection drill that tour pros have been using for decades. Now in something that fits in your golf bag and takes five minutes a day.


I use it before every round now. Ten minutes on the range, ball under my arms, just grooving the feeling. By the time I take it out, the connection is already there.

What Happens When You Fix the Root Cause
 

When your arms and body move together properly, a few things happen at once.


Your swing path comes from the inside automatically. Your forearms rotate through impact and square the face. The out-to-in cutting action disappears β€” and with it, the spin that was sending your ball right.


You don't need a new grip. You don't need to aim left. You don't need another lesson that gives you three new thoughts and fades out by the weekend.


You just need to feel what a connected swing actually is. Once you've felt it β€” really felt it β€” you can repeat it. And once you can repeat it, you can trust it.


That's when the slice stops coming back.

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 When your arms and body move together, the path comes from the inside, the face squares up, and the ball goes where you're aiming.

 

If you've been fighting your slice for more than a few months, there's a good chance you've never fixed the root cause.


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PureStrike Testimonials β€” Slicing
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I was slicing every tee shot for six years. Tried two different coaches, watched hours of YouTube, nothing stuck. One week with this and my playing partners noticed the difference before I even told them about it. Not exaggerating.

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Mark B. πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Brisbane, Australia
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I'm skeptical by nature β€” I've bought a garage full of training aids that all promised to fix my slice. I was ready to write this off too. But after just a few sessions, I could actually feel my arms and body moving as one for the first time. The slice went from a 30-yard banana to a slight fade I can manage. That's a win I haven't had in years.

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Tom W. πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Manchester, UK
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I don't normally write reviews, but I feel like I owe it to someone out there who's been where I was. I've been slicing off the tee for as long as I've played golf. My instructor kept telling me about my flying trail elbow and chicken wing, and I'd nod along β€” I understood it intellectually β€” but I could never feel what he was describing. I'd fix it for one session and it would be gone the next week. After using the PureStrike ball for about two weeks, something just clicked. I finally felt what connected actually means. First round back out, hit 9 of 14 fairways. My best ever. I'm still shaking my head.

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Scott R. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Vancouver, Canada
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The feedback is instant. Ball stays up β€” connected. Ball drops β€” I know exactly what went wrong. No guessing. No 15 swing thoughts. I've cut my slice from the tee in half in about 10 days. Simple, brutally effective.

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Alex K. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Phoenix, Arizona
Verified

My husband bought this for me after watching me struggle off the tee for three seasons. I'll be honest β€” I rolled my eyes a bit when he handed it over. But I've been using it for 20 minutes a day in the backyard for the past three weeks and my slice has genuinely gone. Not improved β€” gone. I hit three greens in regulation on Saturday, which has never happened in my life. Worth every single dollar.

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Linda H. πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Melbourne, Australia
Verified

Slicing is an arms problem. I knew this. But knowing it and actually feeling the correct movement are completely different things. This is the first tool that bridged that gap for me. My handicap dropped 4 strokes in a month.

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James P. πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Edinburgh, Scotland
Verified

I've spent more money on golf lessons and training aids over the past eight years than I'd care to admit. My slice came and went β€” sometimes the lesson would fix it for a few rounds, then it'd creep back and I'd be in the trees again. My coach kept talking about my disconnected arms and flying elbow. I could see it on video. I just could not feel it. The PureStrike ball is the first thing that made me feel it. Not theorise it, not visualise it β€” actually feel it in my body. Three weeks in, I'm consistently hitting straight drives for the first time in my adult golf life. I genuinely wish I'd found this in year one.

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Craig N. πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Perth, Australia
Verified

I play off 14 and had basically accepted that a 20-yard slice was just part of my game. My mate lent me his PureStrike ball and I did 15 minutes a day at home for two weeks. Next round I played I had zero penalty strokes β€” zero. That's never happened. Arms and body finally moving as one unit. Ordered my own immediately.

DG
Dave G. πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ Auckland, New Zealand
Verified

I was the guy everyone in my group secretly dreaded standing next to on the tee. Wild slice, people scattering. Now I'm striping it down the middle and my playing partners are asking what happened. Best investment in my game, full stop.

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Ryan O. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Denver, Colorado
Verified

My background is engineering, so when someone tells me a product will fix a problem I've had for a decade, I want to understand the mechanism first. The concept here is dead simple β€” and that's the point. You keep the ball between your arms or it falls. That binary feedback tells your body what no amount of verbal instruction ever could. I've sliced every drive I've ever hit. I've spent probably $2,000 on lessons over 10 years. I've recorded my swing from every angle. I knew exactly what was wrong and couldn't fix it. After 12 days with this, I hit 11 out of 14 fairways in my last round. I went back and checked. That's not something I'd ever done before. I'm genuinely stunned.

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Paul M. πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Bristol, UK
Verified

Slice has been embarrassing me on the first tee since I started playing. I finally broke 90 last weekend and I'm crediting this directly. No more chicken wing through impact, no more banana ball flight. Solid contact, ball going where I aim it. Sounds basic but it's taken me years to get here. Can't thank PureStrike enough.

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Kevin F. πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Sydney, Australia
Verified

I travel a lot for work and can practice in my hotel room. Ten minutes a day, no golf balls, no range needed. My slice fixed itself in the first two weeks. It's now part of my daily routine. Simple. Lightweight. Actually works.

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Nathan L. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Toronto, Canada
Verified

My instructor had been telling me for years that my arms were disconnecting from my body at the top of my backswing β€” causing me to come over the top and slice everything. She was right. But verbal instruction only takes you so far. You can say "stay connected" a thousand times and a golfer will still struggle to replicate it without understanding the feel. The PureStrike ball gives you that feel immediately. When the ball dropped, I knew. When it stayed up, I could feel exactly what my body was doing differently. After three weeks my instructor commented, without me mentioning anything, that my arm-body synchronisation had improved dramatically. That was all the proof I needed.

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Joanne C. πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Surrey, UK
Verified

Stopped being the guy who yells "fore right!" every single tee shot. My drives are finally going where I aim them and I actually enjoy standing on the tee box now. 3 handicap shots gone in a month. Brilliant product.

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Ben T. πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Gold Coast, Australia
Verified

I've been playing off 18 for five years. Same slice, same frustration, same stuck handicap. I tried everything β€” new driver, weaker grip, open stance β€” none of it addressed the actual cause. Within my first session I had an aha moment. Ball stays = connected. Ball drops = fix it. That's it. No complicated swing thoughts, no YouTube rabbit hole. Just honest, immediate feedback. My handicap is moving for the first time in years. I genuinely wish this existed when I started.

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Michael V. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Dallas, Texas
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