While there is no “magic” slice curing driver, there absolutely are setups and designs that can help take the edge off of your worst shots or reduce the severity and make your natural shot shape more reliable, and maybe even travel a little further as well. But is there one best driver for a slice?
While the best players on the planet often opt for a “power fade” too many weekenders learn to live with something more akin to the “banana” when it comes to their shot shape. Ultimately there are lots of ways to attack a wild slice but looking at your equipment, if your slicing is consistent, is one of the easiest ways to make an adjustment.
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In This Guide
- What Features In A Golf Driver Will Help With A Slice?
- Best Drivers For A Slice At A Glance
- Best Overall: Taylormade Stealth 2 HD
- Staff Favorite: Taylormade Sim 2 Max D
- Best Driver For Beginners With A Slice: Callaway Big Bertha B21 Driver
- Best Looking Driver For A Slice: Callaway Paradym X
- Best Budget Driver For A Slice: Orlimar Slice Killer Golf Driver
- Best Ping Driver For A Slice: Ping G430 SFT
- Best Titleist Driver For A Slice: Titleist TSR2
- Best Driver For Women With A Slice: Cobra Aerojet Max
- Most Underrated: Cleveland Golf Launcher XL Lite Draw Driver
- Best Value: Cobra Air X Offset Driver
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Final Thoughts
What Features In A Golf Driver Will Help With A Slice?
When it comes to drivers that advertise themselves as slice-fixers or “draw biased” there are really two technical elements that club makers play with: offset and the distribution of adjustable weights.
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Offset (Draw Biased)
Offset refers to how far the face is set “back” from the shaft, creating a look from the playing position where the face line is “offset” from the shaft line. An example of a club with a lot of offset that may be familiar to many golfers is the Ping Eye 2. Also many putters are made with an offset. In fact, almost all clubs have some offset but it might be a millimeter or two and barely noticeable.
Clubs built with significant offset are known as “draw biased” clubs because they help the golfer close the face through impact, by essentially “giving the club more time” to close down before the strike because it arrives a split-second later than the shaft.
Adjustable Weights
The other factor that manufacturers play with are setting moveable or fixed weights, usually on the bottom of the driver, that can change the setup from a balanced to a biased arrangement.
If the weight is heavier on the heel side or moved closer to the heel side than the toe, the club will have a tendency to have the heel move slower than the toe, hence creating the same effect of shutting down the club face more easily through impact. The opposite - with more weight on the toe - would help a golfer leave the face more open through impact - which is exactly what a slicer DOESN’T want.
Best Drivers For A Slice At A Glance
Best Overall: Taylormade Stealth 2 HD
The TaylorMade Stealth 2 HD stands for “High Draw” and like most manufacturers, it represents a variation on their top-line product that is specifically designed with the slicer in mind. It’s going to come with all of the bells and whistles of the Stealth 2 family including carbon fiber materials and a carbon Twist Face.
The difference between the “HD” and the rest of the Stealth 2 drivers is that this club is set up with heel weighting to make it draw-biased. This is built-in to the club’s setup and is not adjustable through moveable weights. This makes it a great club if you are committed to your swing the way it is, and just want a club that works in your favor instead of against it.
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TaylorMade always caters to the average consumer as well as they do the TOUR pro, and this driver is designed to really perform well out of the box for your weekend golfer who wants more distance and less slice.
The high-launch club head is going to get the most out of a moderate or slow swing speed, and the built-in head weighting is going to reduce the amount of curve due to the face being open at impact. This makes it a fantastic club if you’ve conceded that your swing speed and shot shape aren’t going to change.
If however you are a very high-speed player or are working on your mechanics to stop slicing, as well, you may need a different driver than this if it launches too high or you start hitting it straighter, as the weights cannot be adjusted back to neutral.
Click here for our in-depth Taylormade Stealth Driver Review.
Staff Favorite: Taylormade Sim 2 Max D
The SIM 2 Max D is the prior-generation offering from TaylorMade, being released in 2021 before they started to introduce Stealth drivers. The “D” variety of this driver is basically the same as the SIM 2 Max version, in that it has the same aerodynamic design and Twist Face as all the other SIM 2 Max drivers.
The difference with the “D” model is that it is specifically made as a draw-biased club. TaylorMade does this with their “inertia generator” technology which is a fancy way of saying they have moved weight around on the club. In the case of the SIM 2 Max Draw model, the weight has been moved closer to the heel, to keep the forgiveness of the club unchanged while promoting a shot shape that starts more left and curves less right.
This club also features a kind of visual trick with the top line that encourages the player to set up with the face more shut to start with, as well, further promoting a ball flight that starts left and stays more left.
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This is a club that can help slicers, but maybe not all slicers. Like other fixed-weight models, you have to be committed to your slice swing in order to make this work, because if you straighten out your swing there’s no way to adjust the club. Likewise, if you tear the cover off the ball (105+mph swing speed) this club might launch too high for you to be optimal, even if you straighten out a slice with it.
However, for the vast majority of slicers, this club fits the profile perfectly, and is a great option for anyone who hits it under 300 yards and wants to take some of the right-miss out of their game without making any other changes.
Best Driver For Beginners With A Slice: Callaway Big Bertha B21 Driver
While the terms “beginner” and “slicer” often go hand-in-hand in golf, not all clubs are made to cover both categories. The Callaway Big Bertha B21 is a slightly more exaggerated version, comparable to their Maverick MAX line, but providing a little bit more speed, a little bit more draw correction, and a little bit lighter setup and higher launch than their Maverick line. All of these are done to appeal to the golfer who wants the absolute most help they can get off of the tee, especially while learning the game.
Callaway tricks this driver out beyond the Maverick MAX by setting it up with internal weighting that makes the club as draw-biased as they can possibly make it. It also comes stock with a 55 gram shaft which is definitely on the lightweight end of the spectrum and moves the COG of the club head as low and as forward as they can to provide the highest launch, least spin, and highest ball speeds that they can!
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This driver is about as “game improvement” as it can get, pulling out all the stops to deliver a high, straight ball as easily as possible for somebody who fights a weak, sliced tee shot.
They make all the tweaks and use all the tricks they can in order to bias the head weight for a draw, but this club also combines that with a shaft weight that helps slower players swing it faster and a high-MOI low-COG club head that provides the highest launch and most forgiveness possible, helping the beginner as well as the slicer.
Best Looking Driver For A Slice: Callaway Paradym X
A lot of golf clubs built to correct for a swing flaw can end up looking or sounding gimmicky. The Paradym X makes the game improvement category sexy again by hiding some shot-straightening features into a design that is indistinguishable from what the top players on TOUR are gaming in 2023.
The Paradym “X” model is their draw-biased offering. It is similar to the variety offered by other clubmakers in that it achieves this bias through permanently shifting the interior weighting of the clubhead. The difference between this Paradym X and some other models is that they are providing a much more slight correction to the ball flight. This is going to suit the golfer who just doesn’t want their ball to over-fade more than the golfer who battles a big slice that goes off the map or causes them to aim everything way left of their target.
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The Paradym X caters more to a player who wants to look the part as well as just make a slight correction to their tendencies, rather than fix a totally errant shot. This is kind of a “players” draw biased club rather than a slice fixer. It provides a max-sized head but still provides a little bit of spin, again allowing for a little bit of control to balance distance and forgiveness, rather than going all-out for distance like some of the other high-launch/low-spin models on the market.
This is a great club if you have control over your drives more-or-less but just want a little nudge in the right direction for the occasional one that gets away from you.
Click here for our full Callaway Paradym Driver Review.
Best Budget Driver For A Slice: Orlimar Slice Killer Golf Driver
The Slice Killer driver from Orlimar makes no apologies about who it is for or what it does for your game. Unlike some of the more discreet marketing from bigger-name companies, Orlimar fully embraces the niche they are after and actually makes a few adjustments that we don’t see in some other drivers in order to fully send that slice to its grave.
The big difference with this Orlimar Slice Killer compared to the other drivers reviewed so far is that they are adjusting the offset a lot more, in addition to the common theme we’ve seen with adding weight to the heel side of the club. This combination allows them to advertise up to 29.7 yards of left-bias to the club!
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This driver pulls out all the stops, and because of that it might be a bit TOO much for some slicers, but perfect for somebody who wants all the help they can get. One potential drawback is that its less common to see a lot of visible offset on a driver, and this could create a very “weird” look at setup for somebody who has been playing for many, many years.
Functionally, however, it goes a long way towards getting a ball to start left and stay left without changing a golf swing too much, and that is exactly who this club is made for.
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Best Ping Driver For A Slice: Ping G430 SFT
The PING G430 SFT is one of the highest-end “slice fixer” drivers on the market. It combines all of PING’s best features with a slight tweak to the setup to favor the golfer who moves it a little bit too much left-to-right. This driver is very similar to the PING G430 MAX but instead features a different pre-set weight, and the ability to adjust it even further!
The unique thing about this club is that while many clubs allow a moveable weight to switch between neutral, draw, and fade - this club comes set up with a draw bias, and allows the user to switch the club into an even more dramatic draw bias by completely maxing out the location of the head weight to the heel-side. This allows them to compete with the most biased clubs on the market, advertising that with the weight in the “draw +” setting can shift the ball flight up to 30 yards left of what you’re used to.
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This driver from PING is one of the best options for a golfer who is able to swing hard, but still battles a slice. This is because some other top manufacturers tend to package their draw-biased clubs also with very high launching clubs, but PING has set their line up to make this more similar to the clubs used on TOUR, except with built-in draw bias, and then give users the option of getting a SFT “HL” if they also want a high launch club for their slower swing speed. This makes it the perfect option for a more athletic player who still battles a little wipe off the tee.
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Best Titleist Driver For A Slice: Titleist TSR2
This club is definitely more of an all-around gem than the other drivers in this article, which cater more overtly to reducing a slice. The Titleist TSR2 and the Titleist driver lineup in general are appealing to fans and customers slightly differently than the cookie-cutter lineups we’ve seen from other clubs. Everything is optimized for that classic, classy, TOUR signature visual appeal. This means no marketing around game improvement or biases, but just outright performance for the top players in the world.
If you look a little bit closer, however, you will see that the TSR2 is a slightly draw-biased club. This is much more understated both in the design/marketing and the actual functionality of the club. Because the focus here is much more on an all-around performer for a golfer who leans more towards player-friendly setups and aesthetics, we are only going to see a relatively light 8-gram weight that can move the club SLIGHTLY into a heel/draw biased setup.
It’s combining just that nudge of correction with the world-class feel, looks, and playability of the Titleist designs that makes this club stand out from the rest.
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This, at the end of the day, is a real Player’s club that just provides a little safety measure when it comes to the right-miss, rather than a true “slice-fixer’s club.” But naturally all slicers exist on a spectrum, and for somebody who wants a really high-end ride while enjoying a little safety valve in the form of 8 grams of heel-biased weighting, then this is the dream club that will fit right in at any level of the game.
Best Driver For Women With A Slice: Cobra Aerojet Max
The Cobra Aerojet Max is a fully modern club that markets itself to female players who want to avoid that right-miss as much as possible. This club once again puts an emphasis on sleekness and stealthiness in hiding their game-improvement designs in a killer aesthetic.
The club features just a hint of light blue designating it as their ladies design inside the otherwise space-age AeroJet design. This includes a face engineered to take mis-hits across the entire surface as well as two moveable weights to fine-tune the draw bias of the club. It comes pre-set with a heel weight, but that can be adjusted into an even more extreme position, giving users the option between draw-biased and extra-draw-biased settings, very similar to the PING G430 SFT.
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A lot of what makes a ladies club a ladies club is adjusting a few specs - shorter, lighter, and softer in the shaft. The club heads don’t really see gender, except many take to elaborate paint schemes to designate “female use only.”
Ultimately, this club head is going to perform just like any other modern driver that has weight moved to the heel, and sets itself apart with just a touch of sky blue trim. It is an ideal club for an amateur women’s golfer who battles too much of a fade and wants to experiment with different weight settings without sacrificing performance or aesthetics at all.
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Most Underrated: Cleveland Golf Launcher XL Lite Draw Driver
Cleveland always brings big value along with competitive specs and flies under the radar in doing so. Their Launcher drivers have continued to be favorites amongst everyday golfers and Cleveland has built their entire brand around making the best clubs possible for the everyman, instead of trying to design TOUR player clubs and make compensations to fit the average golfer.
That means that Launcher clubs are going to fully embrace concepts like lighter shafts, higher launches, and draw-bias that many pros are not interested in, for various reasons. The Launcher XL Lite Draw driver delivers all three of these things in spades, and appeals directly to the golfer who wants to hit it higher, straighter, and farther without changing their swing.
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This club is made with the amateur, beginner, or high-handicapper in mind, and not the TOUR pro. So you won’t see your favorite golfer playing this club at the US Open but that doesn’t mean it might not be the best club for you.
This is an all-around winner for the golfer who wants to maximize speed, height, and take the right-curve off of the ball … and there are a lot more of those guys buying clubs out there than there are TOUR pros! That helps Cleveland deliver professional-level build quality but at specs designed for mere mortals and do it all at a price that makes everybody happy.
Just because they don’t have as huge of a presence amongst pros doesn’t mean you should overlook a chance to add a Cleveland club to your bag!
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Best Value: Cobra Air X Offset Driver
This club makes waves because it also features a significant offset to go along with its draw bias. However, unlike our previous feature on the Orlimar Slice Killer, we get this “alternative” build and design from a “big 5” manufacturer in Cobra.
Ultimately, the golf ball doesn’t know what brand hit it, but there are generally a few “niceties” that come with going with one of the top brands. This includes manufacturing quality as well as just the aesthetics of having name-brand clubs in your bag, if you prefer that.
What you’ll get in this package from Cobra is that name-brand-recognition but with a driver featuring not just draw biased weighting but an offset face, giving it the maximum possible directional-correction on the market.
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This is about as game-improvement as you can get for a slice-fixer club. It is going to give you even the look at address that the right side of the course doesn’t exist. It might take some getting used to but functionally, this club is going to do everything possible to keep you down the left.
It’s a great experiment as a last-stop before supplementing your golf regimen with some lessons. If this club doesn’t fix your slice, it’s time to get some professional advice or just make terms with the situation!
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a driver that fixes a slice?
There is no driver that fixes a slice, however there are several options that can help reduce a slice.
Despite claims, to use the word “fix” might be a little dubious. There are setups that can help match the face of the club to the path of the swing. These include draw-biased weighting or weight settings as well as adding offset, both of which help close the face to the path and reduce the chances of a big slice.
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How do you weight a driver to reduce slice?
In order to reduce the big slice that starts right and goes more right, more weight needs to be added to the heel side than the toe side, causing an imbalance or “bias” in the way the face closes.
This will allow the toe to travel faster than the heel and make it easier for a golfer to square or shut the face through impact and get their ball going more left overall.
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Can a bad grip cause a slice?
Absolutely a bad grip can cause a slice. This is one of the first things that should be checked. Weak grips promote open faces, strong grips promise closed faces, and almost all slicers struggle with an open face.
Because of this, strengthening your grip is one way to help straighten out your ball flight without making any other changes. Ultimately both the grip, club setup, the angles of your wrist and the timing of your release all dictate whether the club is open at impact and causing a slice, but if you have a weak grip definitely experiment with going stronger - either to neutral or all the way to a strong grip - before making other changes. As you do this, it's important to make sure you are incorporating the elements of the proper golf grip.
Other possible causes of a slice are standing too close to the golf ball and casting the club from the top of the backswing.
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Final Thoughts
The slicer is as old as the game itself, and “slice-fixing” is an industry unto itself in the golf world. For the right-handed player, that high, weak, left-to-right flight has forever haunted and will continue to haunt weekend golfers everywhere. This shot makes it almost impossible to break 90, and is no fun to play.
One of the ways you can attack this problem is through your equipment. While lessons and practice might make the biggest changes to ball flight in the shortest amount of time, if you have a very consistent problem that isn’t too dramatic, an equipment tweak might be the least harmful way to go about gaining yards and tightening dispersion.
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The options manufacturers have available are basically changing the offset of the club to get the ball starting more on-line or down the left, and shifting the weighting of the club head to the heel-side so that the face dynamics through impact produce a closed-face or draw-biased swing. And fear not, these drivers all have left handed options that are just as effective at mitigating your slice!
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In many instances this won’t turn a slice into a draw, but will turn a slice into a more manageable fade on our better swings. In any case, having confidence that your good shots will travel further and stay more on-line is nearly priceless. It’s also good to know that a true miracle cure doesn’t exist. Equipment can only help to mitigate tendencies, for the most part.
All that said, there’s a huge segment of the industry devoted to helping the player that misses high, weak, and right. So if that’s your tendency and you haven’t explored some of the technology out there designed to help, don’t delay and go check out a draw-biased driver today!
