How can I drive the ball straight every time?
Slicing the ball has nothing to do with where on the face you hit it. Actually hitting it on the ‘toe’ generally entails a draw trajectory, due to “gear effect” Slicing is caused by the clubhead swinging on an ‘outside in’ path, and cutting across the ball, thereby imparting the side spin, kinda like “english ” on a cue ball. Also it depends on whether your ball starts out straight then turns right (if your a righty) or if goes dead right. The flight your ball starts out on, indicates your club head impact angle (closed or open) the path the ball takes after that, is the swing path. I hope this helps and isnt too confusing.
Wow – too many possibilities. First, it sounds like you take a big cut at the ball. If you’re swinging too hard, your arms may be drifting up and away from your body. To compensate, your wrists bend downwards and you hit the ball with the face open, towards the toe. This generally results in a huge slice. To fix this, keep your arms close together and close to your body. See Ben Hogan’s book Five Lessons for details. An alternate is to look to Moe Norman, or Natural Golf. The swing looks really ungainly, but there’s little to no twisting or rotation, and so timing is less of an issue. You still get great distance, and your hook / slice is far less likely. But the good instructor will tell you that if you’re averaging 33% with the club, leave it in the bag and use your 2-, 3-, or 4-iron. When you’re good with those clubs, then let the driver out of the bag. Golf in no fun in the trees.
