Help!!Im pulling the ball,can anybody offer some advice please?

When I have timing problems, which it seems you are having, I do something similar to what Erik is saying. I'll often take my 6 iron and take half or 3/4 swings. The only difference is that I do it with my feet together. This way your hips and upper body must move in sync with each other...otherwise you will fall over. I'd have you hit 20-25 shots this way and slowly spread your feet apart.

Yup, I'm officially joing the club. I am pulling my irons 10-20yds left of my target pretty consistently right now. I'm getting really pissed at it too. I'm too broke/stubborn to go to a local pro mostly because I am in college and I don't know the people around here and I would rather wait to go back home to MY swing coach. But more importantly, I can't understand why I am doing it.

Here's my thoughts after reading the posts. I have be having a really closed stance. Not always, but after hitting some of my worse pulls, I laid a club down to check my feet/hip alignment and it's well right of my intended target. My clubface is square to the target though. I added a picture to help you visualize it.



The first correction I tried was to "open" my stance up a little until it was in a square position and it has the same results. I tried to go so far as to put a fade swing on the ball and force it to go right, only to result in an almost shank. Really pissed me off.

The second thing I tried to work on was keeping the back side of my left palm square at contact. The swing thought I used was "backhand the ball all the wall through the hitzone." Worked well on the range, didn'r carry over to the course though. Please let me know what you think I should try to correct this, it's killing my handicap and really pissing me off.

When I swing too hard, it usually gives me an outside-in swing. A pull mostly results from outside in + closed clubface. So work on your swing plane, and squaring the club at impact. (I've seen people close the clubface in an attempt to counterbalance their slice...they hit pulls instead.)

This sounds so simple, you'll swear it won't work, but it does. It's actually a great total swing tuning, too. I used my vinyl kitchen floor (12x12" tile pattern), since it provides great alignment, for feet and clubface. Take your address position.

I practice in pieces, and only at slow-motion speed:
1) takeaway to club parallel behind me
2) complete backswing to top
3) transition down (just the initial hip "bump" and start of shoulder uncoil)
4) impact position
5) completion

Going from the transition position (hips slightly open, hands still around chest high, wrists fully hinged) to the impact position (hips fully open, wrists unhinged, hands slightly ahead of ball, clubface at ball and slightly delofted) is a huge, huge component of ball striking and distance. You need to accomplish this using the big muscles (torso, shoulders) to provide the speed through, while the small muscles (wrists, hands) move minimally but accurately and well-timed with the others. This drill lets you focus on those moves and feel where you should be at each stage.

However, what I found to be the MOST useful part of this is #4. Though you do this in slow motion, you need to do it naturally, and it can be very revealing to see where your hands return the clubface. Moreover, you can learn an awful lot about how slight movements in the wrists can alter clubface alignment, not only left/right/square, but also lofted/delofted. I found that with consistent practice, just 5-10 minutes a day, quickly helped me learn what "square at impact" really felt like. On the course, I was able to just worry about using the big muscles through most of the swing, keeping my hands/arms more relaxed and then just making sure my hands hit "square" as they passed the ball.

I haven't done this drill for a while (moved out of that house, no more kitchen floor with high ceilings ) and my game has suffered accordingly. I need to get back into it.......

I have the oppisite i push the ball sorta but not enough to really notice.
If i hit a 5-iron which goes 160m, i push it about 4m-5m to the right of the target (pin), but i have a slight draw which brings the ball back abit.... usually not enough

I don't know any drill, but my local instructor gave me this tip.