Horrid round today

[Benefactor]

Today was the single worst driving round I can remember in recent golfing history for me. Basically I was hitting the ball wayyyyyy off the toe of the golf club to the point where i was almost missing the face of the club. This was more pronounced with my woods than with other clubs, primarily with my driver. It's strange because stuff like that I can usually attribute (to be honest missing it that bad is really unusual for me, but most of my problems stem from weight transfer) to lack of weight transfer on the back swing but I made a special note of transferring my weight today after the first or second hold to no real avail. The strange thing is that I actually hit some decent iron shots today as well as a few nice wedges. I also had a few of the same results with those nearly missing the grooves of the club entirely on a couple shots. I'm just curious to know what might be causing this and how to fix it if it ever happens to you guys. Thanks.

[gbk56]

I find when I start mishitting balls off the toe of my club, my shoulders are not relaxed enough. I usually try to concentrate on relaxing my shoulders and I begin to make better contact.

I believe that when my shoulders are not relaxed my spine tightens up causing a slightly more upright posture thereby moving the club head closer to your body causing me to hit the ball with the toe of the club.

[Fried Egg]

Check your alignment and ball position. With the driver, it's easy to get the ball position too far forward and this in turn can cause the shoulders to open up. Both of these factors will lead to the club swinging back to the inside before it gets to the ball, therefore any contact will be off the toe.

Your ball position will be further back with your irons which may be why you hit those alright.

[Benefactor]

Check your alignment and ball position. With the driver, it's easy to get the ball position too far forward and this in turn can cause the shoulders to open up. Both of these factors will lead to the club swinging back to the inside before it gets to the ball, therefore any contact will be off the toe.

That's possible, but I don't know. I do try to play the ball far up in my stance but that's so I can easily stay behind the ball and hit up into it...and I used to have big shoulder problems in terms of aiming them left but I usually am pretty conscious of where they are as well. I don't know. Maybe it was just one of those days where you can't hit it right no matter what you do.