[EdZ]

Ed,
Don't fight the ball going left. That could simply be your old swing trying to make the ball go straight. What swing flaws do you have and what are you trying to correct. That club that is going left may help fix your swing, just make the ball go straight. Also, put some face tape on your club and hit it from a normal lie. The impact may be different than on the board.

My main miss has almost always been a push\block, generally alignment, at times a touch under plane, and almost never, ironically, a hook. As with many who learned to play when I did, I fight firing the hips\sliding way too much, but have significantly decreased that in my pattern over the last few years as I have learned better hands control vs pivot control.

I work the ball both directions, but my stock shot is straight with a slight draw at the end with a fairly high ball flight and good compression.

The 'fighting' of the ball going left was just an experiment in extremes of clubfitting - with a club that was much too upright, a shaft too light and too offset, I was just curious to test it, making the same motion as with other specs. Just playing around to see how much ball flight was altered by specs.

The slightly toe impact was another matter though - interesting how consistently exact it was, even with different spec clubs. I'm looking forward to seeing how my new sticks work out. They should arrive in about a week.