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Most golfers, men and women alike, tend to hit a slice. The most common cause of a slice is a lack of clubface rotation through the ball at impact. This opening or holding back of the clubface puts a clockwise rotation on the ball and causes the sometimes-dramatic curve to the right. To correct your slice you first must learn to hit the anti-slice (a.k.a. a hook). Feel the toe of the club pass the heel through impact and the ball will move from right to left. An excellent drill to feel this release of the clubhead and your arms is to set up as if the ball were teed up three feet off the ground. Make a few swooshing swings and begin to sense how your right arm crosses over the left naturally. Gradually lower the bottom of the swing until you are making swings at ground height. If you can get this rotational swing to happen through the ball, Kiss Your Slice Goodbye!

Steve Mitchell
Director of Instruction
Kiawah Island Resort Learning Center

Kiawah Island Golf Resort
Oak Point Golf Club

4394 Hope Plantation Dr.
Johns Island, SC 29455
(843) 266-4100
(800) 654-2924
FAX: (843) 243-7433


Tucked away in the center of Hope Plantation, just outside of the Kiawah gate, lies the newly renovated Oak Point Golf Course. Referred to most frequently as a Scottish-American style course, this par 72 borders the historic Haulover Creek on the grounds of an old indigo and cotton plantation. Wide areas of windswept fairways stretch alongside salty marshes interspersed with densely forested areas of live oaks, magnolias, pines and palmetto palms. In addition to its new $1 million clubhouse, renovations to the course, including a spectacular new 9th hole directly on the Haulover Creek, makes Oak Point a "must play" course in the Lowcountry. It was recently awarded 4 1/2 Stars in Golf Digest's "Best Places To Play" readers' poll where it was called one of the best values in South Carolina

Course Statistics:

Yards Par Rating Slope
Tournament 6701 72 72.4 137
Oak 6450 72 70.9 135
Johnston 6105 72 69.2 132
Kiawah 5515 72 67.1 128
Carolina 4954 72 69.8 121
Personnel:
Architect: Clyde B. Johnson
Director of Golf: Roger Warren
Head Professional: Scott Ammon
Superintendent: Bill Daly
Course Record: 65 - Steven Spencer,
Andrew Anderson


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