I keep hitting the ball off the toe of the club; how can i fix that?

I keep hitting the ball off the toe of the club; how can i fix that?

Buy bigger shoes!;) sorry welcome to our forum. Someone will pipe in to respond soon Im sure with a serious answer as well.

Do you have a video of your swing by chance?

jova

You are most likely swinging from outside to in though the ball position with the left wrist stopping or allowing the right wrist to overpower it through the ball. Best guess is your target arm and wrist is much weaker than the trailing limb. The cure is to control the club with the target arm/wrist with the other arm/wrist providing a supporting role. The clubhead path through the ball is a straight line running through 4 o’clock to 10 o’clock for a righty. Yours is likely to be on the outside of the ball from 2 to 8, with the hands on a more out to in path, which causes the toe strike.

Raz is far more expert than I, but I do that sometimes, too.

I think it’s when I’m trying to hit a bit harder and I get a bit of tension in my arms. That contracts the muscles thus pulling the club in a bit closer to my body.

My cure (for me) is to make sure I keep my head up and keep my arms extended through impact.

I cured my out to in path some years ago.

jova

You are most likely swinging from outside to in though the ball position with the left wrist stopping or allowing the right wrist to overpower it through the ball. Best guess is your target arm and wrist is much weaker than the trailing limb. The cure is to control the club with the target arm/wrist with the other arm/wrist providing a supporting role. The clubhead path through the ball is a straight line running through 4 o’clock to 10 o’clock for a righty. Yours is likely to be on the outside of the ball from 2 to 8, with the hands on a more out to in path, which causes the toe strike.

The man who hits at the ball rather than through it has no sense of rhythm.
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man you always nail it….always have

you should have been a golf coach….

spot on

I keep hitting the ball off the toe of the club; how can i fix that?

I was more impressed that you became a member in 2008 and waited 5 years for your first post….well done!

jova

You are most likely swinging from outside to in though the ball position with the left wrist stopping or allowing the right wrist to overpower it through the ball. Best guess is your target arm and wrist is much weaker than the trailing limb. The cure is to control the club with the target arm/wrist with the other arm/wrist providing a supporting role. The clubhead path through the ball is a straight line running through 4 o’clock to 10 o’clock for a righty. Yours is likely to be on the outside of the ball from 2 to 8, with the hands on a more out to in path, which causes the toe strike.

The man who hits at the ball rather than through it has no sense of rhythm.
Secrets of the Master – The Best of Bobby Jones

man you always nail it….always have

you should have been a golf coach….

spot on

“I work with retards, Those goofy bastards are about the best thing I’ve got going.” – Pat Healy – “There’s Something About Mary”

Probably because I have made every possible mistake there is learning the golf swing as an adult. If anybody has learnt the hard way it would be me.:)

Thank you all, so far… Razaar, your theory looks good, but my divot runs from 5 to 10, which indicates an in to out swingpath and my grip will more likely be described as strong.
OldBogeys post has made me think that perhaps I am tensing up, or perhaps my posture is incorrect, or I am not the correct distance from the ball?
Yes, it has taken me 5 years to place a post, but I have learnt over time that I can trust fellow golfer’s advice…. I need fixing to other parts of my game as well, but decided that I need to strike the ball better before moving on to the next; thank you all for your help.

We didn’t have much info from your opening post to actually help you. A divot from 5 to 10 will have curve which tells me that the wrists are stopping and the clubhead is passing the hands through impact. How are you managing to get so far inside at impact?

I must be swinging too much on the inside?

:). Do you play with only one arm (target arm)?

I keep hitting the ball off the toe of the club; how can i fix that?

I was more impressed that you became a member in 2008 and waited 5 years for your first post….well done!

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He was just waiting for the infighting to die down first :-)

Thank you all, so far… Razaar, your theory looks good, but my divot runs from 5 to 10, which indicates an in to out swingpath and my grip will more likely be described as strong.
OldBogeys post has made me think that perhaps I am tensing up, or perhaps my posture is incorrect, or I am not the correct distance from the ball?
Yes, it has taken me 5 years to place a post, but I have learnt over time that I can trust fellow golfer’s advice…. I need fixing to other parts of my game as well, but decided that I need to strike the ball better before moving on to the next; thank you all for your help.

Divot running from 5 to 10? That’s running right to left across the ball and just about missing it. No wonder you’re nicking them off the toe !

With 12 being the target direction, your stroke needs to be from 6:30 to 12:15 or 12:30 (slight curve if you can pick it).

Check the alteration in your shaft alignment at impact compared to address. If you start out at lets say elbow plane at address and at impact the shaft is stood up closer to shoulder plane you have literally wiped the toe across the ball
Great ones like Hogan and Trevino set up on elbow plane and returned it there. Smart ones like Moe set up on shoulder plane and returned it there. Not many if any great ball strikers have ever returned the shaft back to impact with a large varhance in how they addressed it. Too many variables going on to do such a thing and expect a good result with strike

Brad, do you recommend one over the other?

Andre,

I must be swinging too much on the inside?

That does not follow.
More than likely it’s the other way, out to in.
From the Top you can not go toward the target. It will throw the right shoulder out and the clubhead goes over-the-top. You can only go down.

You’ve been here awhile, so I assume you’ve read all the golf school articles from the beginning (the bottom)?
Measure to the ball and set the clubface alignments and body configuration in an impact position (Golf School article “Impact Fix, the difference between good and lucky”)
Note the hands’ location, head height, right knee bend. The goal is to get the hands back to that location from the top with some right wrist bend, i.e. a flat left wrist.
You are probably losing the flat left wrist in release. That’s a golfing disaster. Anything can happen.

We need a video.

The only way he can swing from 5 to 10 and hit the ball on the toe is for the arms to be going faster than the club in degrees per second. This is the most common pattern shown by Zenolink screening – even in low markers. The better pros move the club twice as far as the arms. A real golf swing is very rare but delicious – like my prime rib.

Best served with roasted pine nuts and lightly fried lamb kidney whizzed with olive oil.

Considering that olive oil looks somewhat like ‘whizz’, I think I’d give the kidneys a miss.

Moving the club twice as far as the arms (a distance measurement) is totally different to ‘degrees per second’ which is a change in angle.