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 Center at Woburn. In this video, we're going to talk about how to hit your

00:13fairway wood off the ground. One of the most common mistakes I see golfers make when they

00:22try to hit a fairway wood off the 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 trail side

00:33and they're trying to lift it in the air, catching it either in the bottom of the club or at the top

00:39of it and miss hitting it. In order to hit your three wood off the ground successfully, we need

00:47to do the opposite. So what I'd like to see is from a good setup position is that as you come into

00:53impact, you've actually got your weight transferring through towards your target. And what you'll see

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

01:03their fairway wood, which implies that they're actually hitting down through the golf ball,

01:07much like how you'd hit an iron. By having the proper weight transfer, you're also going to present

01:12the entire club face to the golf ball hitting out of the sweet spot. Okay, so it might feel like you're

01:18taking loft 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 consistency.

01:28The other important element to consider, we're all individual golfers with individual speeds,

01:33golf 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 and loft,

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

01:48something like 16 and a half or an 18 degree fairway wood further and better than a 15 degree three wood.