Your driver’s face is curved to help your misses
A driver’s face is not flat. Its heel-to-toe curve can send a right-hander’s toe strike farther right at first—giving the ball room to curve back left. Starting a mishit away from the target can be part of the correction, rather than another thing going wrong in the swing.
Why the twisting club and curving ball work against each other
An impact towards the toe can twist the driver head open. Through the collision, the ball gains a spin effect tending to curve it the opposite way: right to left for a right-handed golfer. This is called gear effect. A heel strike tends to produce the reverse.
The face’s horizontal curvature, called bulge, changes the direction in which an off-centre strike launches. That starting direction can help compensate for the curve that follows. It is a designed relationship between launch and spin, rather than a flat face simply pointing somewhere.
It cannot rescue every swing: face angle, club path and strike position still combine to determine the result. But before rebuilding a swing because one drive hooked or sliced, check where the ball met the face. A driver miss can carry information about contact as well as technique.