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I've been the exact opposite. If I've played it off my left foot I've been hooking it. This past week I went from front of stance to the back with every club and it helped a lot. Especially the woods which was really surprising.

Same with me cogolfer

When I put the ball up in front of my left foot I find that I have to raise my left shoulder at address to hit it straight, if I don't then like CoGolfer it will result in a damaging hook!

But then again I do believe that a pro will teach you that that is where the ball should go with a driver. I don't really know, never had a lesson.

I could be wrong but you might be standing too close to the golf ball.

Not able to fully release the club head because you were crowding the golf ball, thus slice city until you give it more room for you to move the club head properly to release the club head.

Could also be your posture or alignment.

Make sure you have someone to take a look of your set up. I think that might be the source of your slice.

Dewsweeper, thanks for the advice. I will try backing off it and see if that works.

Stash, your basic observation is correct, but the key question is why? There are many possibilities. A few are:
- Your grip is too weak
- Your grip is way too much in your palms
- Your palms are opposing when you make your grip
- You have an outside in swing
- You cast the club very early in your downswing
- You slide forward during the downswing
- Your weight gets outside your front foot on the downswing

If one of this causes a 'eureka' moment, then name it and we'll go from there. If not, we can narrow it down with a couple of observations.

1. When you move the ball forward and hit it straight does it go straight down your target line or left of the target line? (The latter is called a block.)

2. Without a ball make some full speed swings. Try not to change anything except allow the club to brush the ground and report back where the club bottoms out relative to your front foot.

On that last one, it's important that you don't change your swing or swing tempo and that you just brush the ground. Anything with more impact than that will yield a result that really isn't the bottom of your swing.

I think the first three are probably not the issue.
I do have an outside to inside swing at times when I try to swing the club too hard.
I do think I cast the club too soon without shifting my weight. At the driving range I hit some irons and noticed that I wasn't really squaring my body up to the target. As a side note, I leave most of my irons to the right.
I will have to focus on those last two to figure that out. But, I think I stay back more than sliding forward.

For your two observations at the bottom, sometimes it goes straight but most of the times its down the left side or shapes from left to right.

I will try the bottom out technique tonight.

Lots of opinions, my advise see a pro for the help!

Probably too quick with rotating your wrists through the impact area~

Yes, you're not shutting the clubface.

You've already been bludgeoned with advice/drills/etc., but the easiest way to feel what you should be doing is to grab a club normally, take both thumbs and your top hand's pinkie and bottom hand's forefinger off the club, then swing it.

Feel that?

Now learn how to do it all the time. And good luck controlling that hook.