I pull my club in on my drives.

[BadGolfer]

I know how to compensate for this, but not how to fix it. It pretty much happens when I am driving. I end up hitting the ball with the far tip of the club head and it just shoots off to the left (I'm a lefty). To compensate I have been standing slightly towards the right side of the fairway and starting with the club head further ahead of the ball (so that the ball is sitting about in line with the shaft rather than on the middle of the club face). This works for the most part, but I think the pulling back motion is what is putting a slice on my ball.

This is not really a problem with my irons, I think because they are shorter and are held closer to my body, meaning I do not pull them toward me when I swing. The club head comes down pretty much where I started it, and the ball goes straight.

So, my question is, should I try to hold the driver closer to me to start? How much should my arms be bent when I am holding a driver?

And lastly, are there any drills I should try?

[saevel25]

So your basically hitting it on the toe of the club. If your face was square that wouldn't do much to the bath of the ball, the reason its scooting leftis because your clubface is way open at impact as well. I would post a video.

You should be at address with your hands hanging straight down from your shoulders or just slightly extend forward to about under the chin. Thats the typical range the hands sit at address relative to the body.

But, Post a video

[BadGolfer]

Wow, just went to the driving range. You are totally right, I am opening the club face. If I start my club position by closing the club face like 40 degrees then I can hit it straight. But as much as I try, I can't hit it straight without this compensation. When I test swing really slowly to see what it is doing, it seems pretty straight. But then when I test it really slowly with the closed face it also comes down in the right position... which is terribly confusing.

[trumps4]

I struggle with toe-contact as well. For me, it is accompanied by "heavy" or "fat" contact. As I have mentioned on here before, my neighbor is an assistant golf pro. He insists that it is a byproduct of "coming over the top." He says this make me come into the ball to steep and leads to inconsistent contact. I can correct it as long as I focus on my swing path/plane but focusing on your swing while you are actually playing will limit your ability to score because you aren't focusing on the shot at hand (at least that's my excuse). The more "into the round" I get mentally, the more likely I am to revert back to my OTT swing and bingo..... fat and on the toe.
So that is my struggle. At this point I want to grove the proper swing plane to the point that it is my natural swing and what I revert back too. Hopefully one day....
As for the OP, there is no way to say without video but you might try really focusing on striking the ball from the inside.

[saevel25]

Here is an cheap way of figuring out were your hitting the ball on the face of the club. Get some masking tape, and tape the front of your club face, and hit the ball. The contact will put an impression on the masking tape or tear it a bit. If your hitting on the toe, you might be standing to far away from the ball, this might cause you as well to be hitting it with the clubface open. I would practice taking your stance and make sure that your arms are hangning down from your shoulders, not extended to far from your body.

[nuck81]

I starrted making better contact, and better drives off the tee when I started to think and swing it like it's a "club" and not "The Driver"

I think guys try to do too many weird things when they drive, juse get up there, put the ball forward your stance and swing...