How To Hit Your 3-Wood Off The Deck | Golf Monthly - video Dailymotion

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

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 Hi, my name's Nick Drane.

00:06 I'm a PGA professional and master fitting specialist

00:08 here at the Titleist Performance Center at Woburn.

00:11 This video, we're gonna talk about

00:13 how to hit your fairway wood off the ground.

00:15 One of the most common mistakes I see golfers make

00:22 when they try to hit a fairway wood off the ground

00:24 is that they try and lift the golf ball into the air.

00:26 So from a good setup position,

00:29 I see that their weight transfer

00:31 works back to their trail side

00:34 and they're trying to lift it in the air,

00:36 catching it either in the bottom of the club

00:38 or at the top of it and miss hitting it.

00:40 In order to hit your three wood off the ground successfully,

00:47 we need to do the opposite.

00:48 So what I'd like to see is from a good setup position

00:51 is that as you come into impact,

00:55 you actually got your weight transferring

00:57 through towards your target.

00:59 And what you'll see what some of the best players

01:01 in the world do is a lot of them even actually

01:02 take a small divot with their fairway wood,

01:04 which implies that they're actually hitting

01:06 down through the golf ball,

01:08 much like how you'd hit an iron.

01:09 By having the proper weight transfer,

01:11 you're also gonna present the entire club face

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

01:17 Okay, so it might feel like you're taking loft

01:19 off the golf club in this sense,

01:21 but what you're doing is you're actually presenting

01:23 the entire face of the golf ball,

01:24 getting better contact and more distance

01:27 and more consistency.

01:29 The other important element to consider,

01:31 we're all individual golfers with individual speeds,

01:33 golf swings, how we deliver the golf club.

01:35 The important thing to do, see a PGA professional,

01:38 get properly fitted for a three wood.

01:40 Traditionally, a three wood has been 15 degrees in loft,

01:43 but for some golfers, they might need more loft initially.

01:46 So you might find that you actually hit something

01:48 like 16 and a half or an 18 degree fairway wood

01:52 further and better than a 15 degree three wood.

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