Misaligned at Address
What is actually happening
Your swing aims exactly where you told it to. The problem is what you told it. Your feet, hips, and shoulders set the swing's railroad tracks, and most golfers set them somewhere other than where their eyes believe. Usually open, aimed left of the target, and a little more every year. The ball starts where the body aims, so your good swings get punished for following orders.
What it costs you
Aim left long enough and your swing quietly learns to save the shot by cutting across it. Now you own a slice that started life as an aim problem. Square up the alignment and half the faults downstream of it retire on their own. It's the cheapest fix in golf, and almost nobody takes it.
Pick a spot a foot in front of the ball on your target line and aim the clubface through it first. Then set your feet parallel to that line. You stand on the near rail. The ball rides the far one.
Railroad Station
Build the station with two alignment sticks: one just outside the ball, pointed at the target, and one along your toe line, parallel to the first but left of it. The gap between them is the railroad, and the two lines never point at the same place. That's the part most golfers have never actually seen. For the next two weeks, hit every range ball from inside the station, every club, no exceptions. The first few days will feel closed, maybe badly closed, because your eyes have been lying for years and they don't confess quickly. Trust the sticks anyway. Every few sessions, film from behind and check that feet, hips, and shoulders all run with the toe stick. When square finally looks square to your eyes, take one stick to the course and lay it down during practice rounds as a spot check.
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