I COULDN'T Hit My 3 Wood Correctly Until I knew This

so I wish I'd have known what I'm going to discuss in this video years ago it helped me hit my three wood perfectly from the ground every single time so we've all been there haven't we've hit that perfect tee shot maybe a par five maybe a long Par Four you've got your three wood out great lie and then you cold top it and you've got almost the same distance again well comment below and let me know is that something you do top hit thin it maybe even sometimes catch the ground first take a big divot so I think there's a massive misconception with how we hit our Fairway woods and three would especially from the ground now a lot of golfers talk about you know with irons they know they need to hit down with driver they need to hit up and then they talk about with Fairway Wood how we almost need to sweep the ball away now I want you to think about that as a concept so golfers get told to move the ball forward maybe not quite as far forward as driver and then try and sweep the ball off the ground now the real key is can you control where the lowest points of your golf swing is so if you were to sweep the ball away predominantly you're going to get the low point back behind the golf ball so yeah you heard that right you're probably getting your low point back here now if you hit the ground back here obviously you're in trouble but then if you miss the ground back here that club is traveling back up as it gets the ball so you're either going to catch it at best very thin or you're going to top it like I did on that first one so the first thing I think you need to do is have a practice swing and just see try and touch the ground see where you touch the ground so you see I actually would have made contact slightly behind and then the club would have traveled up so I would have definitely thinned that one but it had been better than that previous one so the first thing we want to do is we want to try and get that low Point further forward now you can do a little bit of setup so don't have the ball as far forward as you would normally have it and I like to feel that there's maybe a little bit more weight on that front leg to begin with so as you make your backswingers normal you're going to feel that you don't let your weight move quite as much on the way back feel more centered and then when you're getting up to the top of your swing you want that nice aggressive movement into that lead side and you can see there I would have collected golf ball then taking a little divot and the deepest part of the divot would have been about two inches ahead of the golf ball there so the lowest point of my golf swing would have been ahead of the golf ball the club would therefore be traveling down hitting ball and then ground now we just don't want it to be excessively forward because there's not a lot of Loft on the three wood so again have that little practice ring ball not quite as far forward and we can see again I've touched much much further forward than I would have done at the start now obviously the beauty of winter golf get that little bit of mud off the club head so like I said a lot of golfers get the ball up here it's incredibly difficult then to get that low Point ahead so don't go right in the middle but just slightly forward of Center focus on a bit more pressure left and make sure you get your weight moving towards the target and that is about as good as I can hit a three wood dead straight nice distance and the key there is I didn't really take a divot it was a good strike and it was as good as I can hit that but if I want it to be even better I would love the low point just to be a little bit into the ground whereas that one was just slightly above but it was still a very very good movement and when I've just hit one three yards at the start 240 is a big Improvement so we get ball position not too far forward don't let yourself move excessively off the ball and then when you meet your swing again absolutely pure change that concept of we're not trying to sweep the ball away every golfer that tells me that I can tell straight away what their bad shot's going to be so you're going to treat it just like an iron more like a kind of mid to longer iron but you've got to make sure that you're touching the ground and you've got to make sure that you're touching the ground after where the golf ball would be that way you're going to get that club leaning forward a little bit and I know that's deloft in the club but when you use higher up the face on a metal wood there's actually a little bit more Loft because of the curve so by actually having a little bit of forward shaft lean that's going to promote the club traveling down through impact it's going to get you a bit more speed it's going to improve your strike and if you can tick all those boxes all of a sudden Three Wood just might start becoming one of your favorite clubs that is so so simple so put that into practice start loving that three wood get good off the floor maybe you'll knock it on the par five for the first time ever or maybe give yourself a chance for an eagle

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Length: 5min 39sec (339 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 23 2023