New golfer with a couple questions...(Driver doesn't work)

[RPMPIRE]

Grab some alignment sticks and try to square shoulders or your feet. Get used to how that alignment feels or looks to you.

After you've done that, the best thing to do when you're lining up for a shot is to square your clubface to the target first and then your body. You see a lot of tour pros that just step up to the ball simultaneously lining up their club face and their body. I always lost my line when I did that so I like lining up the clubface first and then your body.

[Shorty]

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I think I'll take lessons, thanks for the constructive responses. But now I remember why I hate a lot of golfers lol, so many *******s.

When you have a lesson, start off by saying "i have no problem hitting every club perfectly, but I slice my driver.", just as you have done here and wait for the response. I'll send you $100 if, like your single digit friend the pro says he has "no idea" why you slice after watching you hit one shot.:~( As for the comments about being snobby, I couldn't care less where anyone plays. My point is that it's all relative. 85 on one course is 75 on another and 120 on another. Noone can assess your progress without all the relevant information. Hitting a driver is totally different from hitting any other club, even it though it shouldn't be. I would bet money that you are cutting across the ball. I fight a slice with my driver and don't slice my other clubs. It's a nasty swing fault and it's not equipment related. You sound as if you are making good progress, but as I said originally, a reality check is needed. Funny how it's OK for you to boast of hitting every club perfectly, but someone else is an arsehole because they suggest that all is not as perfect as you'd like to think.

[Grumpter]

That's one of the easiest things to practice in my experience (assuming your shoulders follow the line of your feet). Usually I will work on it at the range or even my back yard.

1) Pick your target and line up for a shot

2) Lay the club on the ground with the shaft touching the front of both your feet

3) Step back a few feet and see where you are pointing.

Just keep picking different points to aim at, setup, lay the club on your line then step back and see if you are on target. Rinse & Repeat.

Other things you can do are look for a divot on the tee box which is going in the direction you want to aim. Tee your ball up so it is near the divot which should make it easier for you to setup correctly. If you tee up directly behind the divot this also has the benefit of you seeing exactly where your swing path needs to go to hit it straight. Anything that makes it easier IMO.

[Grumpter]

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When you have a lesson, start off by saying "i have no problem hitting every club perfectly, but I slice my driver.", just as you have done here and wait for the response......     Funny how it's OK for you to boast of hitting every club perfectly, but someone else is a arsehole because they suggest that all is not as perfect as you'd like to think.

He didn't say he hit every club perfectly, he said he has no problem making perfect contact with every other club (other than driver). I took that to mean that most of time he made good contact with the other clubs while his driver was inconsistent not that he thinks he hits every shot perfectly.

You also seemed to assume that he was playing such short courses that the majority of his tee shots he had to back off a few clubs in order to leave him outside of 115ish or so yards. I took his statement to mean he was like most every other ametuer golfer I know... The few holes he comes across on a normal course that are short he will club down on the tee to avoid the dreaded less than full shot.