HOW TO HIT YOUR FAIRWAY WOODS OFF THE GROUND

Today's video will be about the

fairway

woods

, so we'll talk about hitting the missed second shot when looking for distance off the deck. Stay tuned to find out how welcome you are to the real Golf Academy. I was joined by John Watts today at Branson Golf and Country Club, as mentioned in the introduction, today's video is going to be about hitting the

fairway

wood from the deck, so we're talking about maximizing second shot distance on a length. . par 4 or par 5 where we are using this for our second shot, not off the tee. First thing we should say if you were using the fairway wood, I have a 3 wood here if we're using that.

From the tee I would play in a very similar way. I play like a driver and I'll put a link in this video for how to hit

your

drive or a couple of videos that I filmed on how to talk about high draw with

your

driver and very relevant things. so I would play it the same way if I was using a tee shot and looking for distance off the tee, what we're talking about here is the second shot, now I'm actually playing from a tee instead of a street but obviously I'm not going to tee up, this cut is even narrower than the fairway, so if I can hit it from here, I can hit it from anywhere.

The first thing I want to talk about is maybe a bad term that I don't think about a lot when we talk about using these clubs from the fairway and that is sweeping the ball and when people think about sweeping the ball, I see a lot of golfers the ones I measure in my body tracking system. Force Platform Knights, you see their pressure moving away from the target. I think sweeping is fine when you're talking about that ball in the air off a tee, but the reality is with elite PGA and European golfers. Tour and the other mini Tour events there are, these players are actually tapping down into a fairway

woods

.

Now, the harder we hit it, the more we can get away with hitting the goal ball, but these guys that are hitting down are generally less loft used than maybe on the forwards and definitely more shafts. heavy and rigid that are not designed to fly the ball high. I think golfers are perfectly fine hitting level or even slightly on the way down a degree now for a Many golfers, being level, feel like they are hitting down because they are so used to being here and in fact still create a Upward angle of attack like you would with a driver off a big tee box. and they tend to beat them and I would say that's the most common mistake among amateur golfers when we talk about using these shots: these clubs from the fairway catch them on the top of the ball.

I could hit them pretty easily.

ground

before the ball, but with a golf club that wide it tends to make the club bounce, so what I'm going to focus on first is the setup position, now established as what it would do compared to the driver the one I would normally play with. the driver opposite my heel forward, so forward in my stance, what I'm really going to do with this club is move the ball back one or a ball and a half in my stance, so it will move back a little bit if That was my driver. ball position opposite to my lead heel here, I'm moving that ball just to touch further back in my stance which is just inside my lead heel, so I'm moving that ball back a touch and I don't want to put as much pressure on my back foot, I would do that with a driver off the tee, so how would I do with the drive for thirty?

I wouldn't change my hip alignment. I would just tilt my upper body to start with about 60% of my pressure favoring my fairway footing with a driver from a tee peg with a fairway wood here off the fairway where we want a more level shot without hitting it. In fact, I'm going to try to adjust my pressure a little more, even feeling a little more like a 50/50 split between my right and left foot. I don't mind if there is a little on this right side, but I don't see excessive. I definitely don't want to get lost by getting too far into that foot of trail, which I would get.

What you then need to do on the course is practice your swings, just get used to it contacting the

ground

, not picking up the ball, sweeping the ball off the surface, but just getting used to having some of that contact with the ground and feeling like you're going. to take it. divot and that's the drill that I'm going to show you and that's the drill that I'm going to recommend that you try at home on the driving range in practice here I'm going to push a tee pin into the ground a little bit ahead of the golf ball, I'm going to do it nice and low so that only the tip of the tee pin is sticking out and what I'm trying to do is hit the ball and break that tee pin or get it out of the ground.

By not hitting the golf ball, but taking one more swing at zero level or maybe slightly down to see if I can try it. I'm not going to play the ball as far forward in my stance as I would. I would do it with a driver, so it's really more of a ball behind my main heel. I'm going to adjust my pressure which feels a little more, it might even be a little bit on this foot of trail, but it's nowhere near where it would be with the driver, I won't lean my shoulders as much, they'll be closer to level and then I'm trying to get the feeling that I'm also going to remove the tee pin from the ground, let's try it, so ball position. not as far forward shoulders more level more even pressure and in this exercise trying to get rid of that peg if I can now I did the only problem with that was not my best contact let me have one more he is a hit to the ground a little before a little before the golf ball, what would that tell me?

I'm allowed to throw away an iPhone or two. Surely, if I hit the ground a little earlier behind the golf ball, I didn't get enough of my pressure moving toward my front foot Sammy, do that again, it actually didn't end up that bad considering, but it was definitely heavier, so that the ball is not so far forward, this is also a good idea, by the way, shoulders, more level, more uniform pressure, that is. Hitting the ball and then the tee instead of just hitting the ground first was a much better shot. What I ended up doing was pushing the tee pin into the ground so I hit the ball and pushed the tee pin down and there I just got a slight scrape on the grass and this is my excuse.

A pretty deep fairway wood. In fact, here I have what I can throw. It's called a 14-degree mini driver. I think I can still hit from the platform, but really. like off the tee, so it works pretty well when I'm looking for a found fairway and not looking for driver distance, so it's a little harder with a deeper face, but I definitely just skim the grass and push the tee pin toward soil. It is a great exercise to make you feel like you are actually hitting more level or slightly on the way down, without trying to elevate or lift the golf ball into the air, take that idea of ​​sweeping out of the equation, adjust your pressure so more uniform, get used to it. to the fact that we are actually hitting the ground with a light wood and we are not trying to hit the golf ball and it will definitely help you be more consistent with your fairway woods when you need them for those second shots.

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