How To Hit Your 3-Wood Off The Deck

In this video, PGA Professional Nick Drane offers some top tips on how to hit your 3-wood off the deck!

Transcript

00:00Hi, my name is Nick Drane, I'm a PGA professional and Master Fitting Specialist here at the

00:08Titleist Performance Centre at Woburn.

00:11This video, we're going to talk about how to hit your fairway wood off the ground.

00:19One of the most common mistakes I see golfers make when they try to hit a fairway wood off

00:23the ground is that they try and lift the golf ball into the air.

00:26So from a good setup position, I see that their weight transfer works back to their

00:33trail side and they're trying to lift it in the air, catching it either in the bottom

00:37of the club or at the top of it and miss hitting it.

00:44In order to hit your three wood off the ground successfully, we need to do the opposite.

00:48So what I'd like to see is from a good setup position, is that as you come into impact,

00:55you've actually got your weight transferring through towards your target and what you'll

00:59see what some of the best players in the world do is a lot of them even actually take a small

01:03divot with their fairway wood, which implies that they're actually hitting down through

01:06the golf ball, much like how you'd hit an iron.

01:09By having the proper weight transfer, you're also going to present the entire club face

01:14to the golf ball, hitting it out of the sweet spot.

01:16Okay, so it might feel like you're taking loft off the golf club in this sense, but

01:21what you're doing is you're actually presenting the entire face of the golf ball, getting

01:24better contact and more distance and more consistency.

01:29The other important element to consider, we're all individual golfers with individual speeds,

01:34golf swings, how we deliver the golf club.

01:35The important thing to do, see a PGA professional, get properly fitted for a three wood.

01:40Traditionally, a three wood has been 15 degrees and loft, but for some golfers, they might

01:44need more loft initially.

01:46So you might find that you actually hit something like 16 and a half or an 18 degree fairway

01:51wood further and better than a 15 degree three wood.