How To Fix Coming Over The Top In Your Golf Swing

One of the most common mishits in golf is the slice. Learning how to fix coming over the top in your golf swing is critical to stopping the dreaded "banana ball". A slice is humiliating and goes much shorter than straight shots, so for any golfer struggling with this, you've got to take a look at your downswing.

Golfers want to "hit that ball" and what happens is the upper body outracing the lower body in the downswing, which gets your club to cross the line and come into the ball from the outside. This results in sidespin on the ball, and with this outside path, causes a big slice. 

This is a hard fault to fix, as it is built into your muscle memory. Hitting hundreds of balls at the range won't fix this, if you don't have the right feel for what it should look like to come down from the inside. Slicers of the ball struggle with this dreaded move for years, and many of them give up the game out of pure frustration.

One thing you should think of to fix the over the top is to let your arms drop from the top of your backswing. Do not let your right shoulder move forward when you start your downswing. Instead think of your right shoulder and hands dropping first, then you can come around into the ball.

This dropping of the hands will get your club traveling from the inside, which should stop you from coming over the top. You'll also fix your slice. You can start by doing downswing drills where you look in the mirror, get to the top, then start down with the dropping of the arms. Do it repeatedly 15 times, then stop and rest. Do it one more time for 15. 

If you just did this drill in your home, you would see an improvement in this swing fault. Doing mirror work at home is easy, fast, and convenient. Doesn't cost you a dime, and can be done daily in just a few minutes. PGA golfers will do this in their hotel rooms after they've played, to keep ingraining the right feel.

You can also think of starting your downswing with your lower body first. This one is a little harder to achieve, because golfers have felt that upper body move for so long, it's hard to do the exact opposite and start with the lower body.

Utilizing these coming over the top golf swing tips should help you improve this fault. 

Another think you might consider is a training aid like a golf swing plane trainer. This is a device that will keep your club on plane coming down, so you can't come over the top.