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Here rectleny i have been hitting the golf ball solid off my irons. But today i went to the driving range and kept hitting the golf ball off the toe of my iron. I know im hitting it off my toe because i marked a golf ball with a blue mark and it showed up on my toe after i hit it everytime. Plus to top it off i got a blister on my hand because i hit it off the toe so many times. i hit the ball great off my driver and other clubs its just all my irons can somebody PLEASE HELP ME CURE MY TOE HITTING PROBLEM OR TELL ME WHAT COULD I BE DOING WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks
Brad

Try swinging a little slower or with a 3/4 swing for a dozen balls. Sometimes I start hitting the balls off the toe when I'm bearing down too much trying to hit good shots. Trying too hard (I didn't say swinging too hard) sometimes causes me to pull my elbows or upper arms a little too close to my body as I attempt to overcontrol the club. This can bring the clubhead inside an inch or two and that's all that's needed to start "toeing" the ball. And if I don't take a deep breath and step back for a minute or two, the error continues until it dawns on me that I've been here before and know how to fix it. Hope this helps you.

You should not get blister from hitting gof balls unless you hit it all day with thousands of them.
You'll need to check all your golf fundamental, your grip, posture, stance, alignment.
Someting is causing the toe shot, and it could be one of the hundreds of possibilities.
You'll need someone to take a look of what you're doing, without seeing your swing it's everyone's guess what you did wrong, and advising might set you on the wrong track further.

Brad,

Two suggestions for getting your irons back on center.

1) Aim small.

Pick a spot the size of a BB at the center of the clubface and aim it at a single dimple on the ball. You can hold the ball and club up to your eye to see exactly where the club touches the ball at impact. As you address the ball you can see the BB spot and imagine the impact point on the ball. "Take dead aim" and keep an image of this aim in your mind from take away through impact.

2) Practice with half swings.

I agree with Billyg. Take a 5-iron and hit shots at the 100-yard sign. Work on precision and timing rather than power. If you find a swing fault it is easier to fix at half-power.

IMHO there may be a "hitch" somewhere in your full swing that is throwing off your aim. Maybe your grip loosens or tightens at the top. Most probably your body turn is ahead of your arm swing and you are blocking it out. The timing with your wood swing can easily be very different from your iron swing. I think we all struggle with that.

Doug

The most common cause of hitting off the toe is a swingplane too upright. In other words, the hands are above the proper plane at the top, causing them to go below the plane at the bottom of the swing. You may just be puttting your hands up too high at the top, or maybe your torso is leaning over on the backswing, or something else.

Try swinging back and forth without stopping, using momentum as a guide to create the correct swingplane and downswing. Once you have this motion consistently correct, reverse engineer a backswing by going from the new top position to address and back to the top a few times. Or, as a variant, stop at the top while doing this back and forth swing, and note carefully your position there and where your hands are. You must get into that position using your backswing. Try all this and let us know what happens.