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. In this video, we're going to talk about how

00:13to 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. So from a good setup position,

00:29I see that their weight transfer works back to their trail side and they're trying to

00:34lift it in the air, catching it either in the bottom of the club or at the top of it

00:39and 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. Okay, so it might feel like you're taking

01:19loft off the golf club in this sense, but what you're doing is you're actually presenting

01:23the entire face of the golf ball, getting better contact and more distance and more

01:27consistency.

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

01:34golf swings, how we deliver the golf club. The important thing to do, see a PGA professional,

01:38get properly fitted for a three wood. Traditionally, a three wood has been 15 degrees in loft,

01:43but for some golfers, they might need more loft initially. So you might find that you

01:47actually hit something like 16 and a half or an 18 degree fairway wood further and better

01:54than a 15 degree three wood.