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I have a problem unwinding my upper body too fast in the downswing.

This doesn't allow me to release the club, hence a push slice.

can anyone help?

I could be wrong but I dont see how the upper body can unwind too fast as long as you keep your hands in front of your chest. On that I am assuming that the lower body will unwind at the same time. Now if the upper body is past the lower before impact then I can see where it is a problem. If that is the case then shouldnt you worry about unwinding the lower body faster and not the upper body slower

I completely agree with shootin4par. As Tiger says, his lower body - note, the big muscles - often unwind way ahead of his arms - smaller muscles, as a whole. This produces a very inconsistent ball striking and inconsistent trajectory. You will often push fade/slice or hook the ball doing this, depending on your forearm rotation.

I have this problem somehow, although usually it's the opposite (my arms ahead of my lower body) because my muscle memory-ingrained habit is to initiate the downswing with my arms rather than my lower body.

I'm having a bit of trouble understanding how a quick upper body unwind is causing push slices. It's a recipe for pull slices.

I would agree with Ringer unless your ball placement it back of center.

Here are two things to work on:

1. Try moving the ball more foreward unless it is already there. If you have a bad hip, knee or ankle on the front side of you body don't move the ball forward.

2. Make sure the backswing in finished before you start the forward.