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I played few holes with one of my co-worker today(he's the best player that I know personally, he hit a 67 when he was 12 ) and he gave a boatload of tips to fix my swing, mostly fading and slicing.

One of the best, yet confusing tip he gave me was that I should stop swinging from outwards to inwards because it's a big factor that contributes to my slicing . He told me tokeep my plane about half way through my downward swing and use my wrist to swing the club outwards.

I tried his method by practicing on the range after the hole(he had to leave in an emergency) but it seemed quite impossible to this. Any suggestions regarding this issue?

set something on the outside of the ball, maybe a piece of foam, or some old jogging pants wrapped in plastic wrap. Put that where its about 1" inch outside of your clubheads length away from the ball. Now only put it to where it starts at the ball and go behind. If you put it to where the foam is in front of the ball you will be negating the inside to out swing path. By putting it before the ball, if you hit that you know you went outside to in,.......after a few hits on thath you will learn to not do it anymore.

another one is to put a tee about 2" up and 2" over past the ball. The idea here is to hit that tee after you hit your shot. That will also cause the inside out swing path.

on the Golf Channel Monday, the had an instructor from across the pond and he really made the golf swing simple or a least sound simple. what he did is with your arms straight out and standing straight up, do a parallel swing (baseball swing), back and forth a few times, now bend over from the hips part of the way to your normal stance, and do that same swing, now bend over to your normal stance and do that same swing, you will have that in to out swing and on plane. practice this and over time it will become natural to you.

Wow are you thinking about too much. Before you do anything with your swing, have someone knowledgeable evaluate your setup and alignment. Sometimes moving a couple inches closer and aiming further left with a stronger grip will fix the problem instead of trying to contort yourself and just getting hurt...

i dont think that someone who cant already work the ball comfotably should be moving their stance and grip around...

and quite honestly dont you want to have the correct swing path before you fiddle with grip and stance alterations...any good teaching pro would suggest starting with standard grip and stance and getting a swing on the PROPER PLANE before changing anything else....

i find it terrible advice to tell someone to change their grip if you don't know what their current grip is...what if he already has a very strong grip....

i would say take the accepted "correct grip" and proper stance and alignment follw the advice of the guy who saw the golf academy presentation...its as simple as that really....other good thoughts might be of an imaginary line that runs through the middle of your ball all the way to your target....on your backswing focus on not letting your clubhead ever cross that line....keep it INSIDE the line and then after the ball you want it to cross the line, or OUTSIDE the line... and there you have it one INSIDE TO OUTSIDE swing

basically the equivalent of the tee that is placed 2" up and 2" over that you try to clip after contact....

mind you that you only want to go OUTSIDE the line if you are trying to work the ball right to left (right handed)...

thats why i like the guys recommendation from the golf academy...its not an inside to outside swing but an INSIDE TO INSIDE, which is what is required for a straight ball flight....with that one you come from the inside and after contact the club remains to the inside....which is what most tour players do...