This Golf Digest article from David Leadbetter talks about something I've mentioned on this blog before, but his take is a bit different. He wants you to pretend your driver has eyes.
Here's part of what he says:
If a round of golf for you is constant guesswork of where the ball might end up, you can improve your accuracy if you fix the cause and control the clubface better through impact. It starts by making a better takeaway. No more whipping the club inside. Instead, pretend the clubface has vision, and its job is to swing back while keeping its eyes on the ball. In the photos above, my club starts squarely behind the ball and does not rotate open in the takeaway. Copy this move. I want you to keep it staring at the ball as long as you can when you take it back. [my emphasis]Now doing this may cause you to make some awkward moves during your swing -- you may twist your forearms into an extreme closed position if you get over-zealous -- so do this as a drill before you take it to the course.
Still, the concept is sound. If you want to be extra correct with your drives -- with all of your shots, virtually -- you need to be privy to wherein your clubface is "looking" at effect. A better takeaway always enables, and I'm a large proponent of the only-piece takeaway. But however you do it, you want to become privy to where the membership is dealing with while you actually touch the ball.
If you already know the clubface is "searching" at your goal at effect, you can make the ball go in which you need it to go irrespective of what your swing seems like. So that should be a main focus of your practice.
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