If you want help with your fairway woods, or any other part of your game, you can get a digital lesson with me on Skillest right here.All right. Watch good players and see how impeccable their balance is throughout. If you do not typically do this, it will feel like a long time. Try to hold your finish in balance until your golf ball lands. If you are off balance during your swing, that makes it nearly impossible to make great contact. With fairway woods this is particularly important. Finish with balanceīeing off balance can ruin many a good setup and swing. That will help with tempo, and create wrist hinge you can use for power later in your swing.
If you can avoid too much tension in your hands you should be able to feel the weight of the club head throughout your swing. If you are holding your club loosely in your fingers, you should have security without tension. This curving arc will allow you to keep your lead underarm close to your chest on your backswing and this will help you with stability and center face contact. While your posture should stay the same from club to club, you will be naturally farther from the ball with your fairway woods due to the increased length of the shaft.īecause of this your backswing with your fairway woods will feel like it comes more around your body. I also think that because fairway woods are physically longer than most clubs in your bag, they can intimidate many players. Loft helps give your fairway woods beautiful launch, which can make them great clubs to approach the green. I am a huge fan of a 7-wood for most golfers, other than golfers with really high club head speed. Having a fairway wood with enough loft to help increase launch can improve consistency and confidence. If you hit your 7- or 5-wood solid and you are confident with them, then consider hitting more of those, rather than trying to force a club you may not be comfortable with. Work your way up to a 3-woodĪ 3-wood may be the fairway wood which goes the longest, but that doesn’t always make it the right choice.ģ-woods can be hard to hit, so I like to see my students work their way up to them. This straightening will train your arm to release properly. From there, straighten the arm and throw the ball down to the ground so it hits the ground in line with the middle of your stance. Place a ball in your trail hand and bow forward into your golf posture. You can actually practice this without the club.
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When this trail arm straightens, it helps create full extension in your arms. So, in order to get your club all the way back to the ground, this elbow needs to straighten down toward the ground, much like a throwing motion.
When you make your backswing, your trail elbow should, and does, fold. Now that you are in good posture and know you need to hit the ground, I want to give you a very specific method to get the club down to the ground. Think about it this way: If your practice swing does not hit the ground, you are practicing topping it! 5. Your body will remember the motion for a short window, so practice swings that hit the ground absolutely transfer into a higher percentage of solid fairway woods. I am sometimes surprised how nonchalant many golfers can be with their practice swings. If you understand that you need to hit the ground, it can be a very smart and effective reminder to do this in your practice swing. If it’s not doing that, the club is not getting the club low enough to generate a higher launch many golfers need. I like to hear the club “thump” the ground slightly as it lightly brushes the top of the grass. Watching the best players in the world hit fairway woods is so interesting, because it’s quite common to see slight divots. Most golfers will see the club make contact relatively centered and if that is the case, the ball position should be relatively centered at address. It can be helpful to take a practice swing that hit the ground and see where the club makes contact with the ground relative to your stance. If your ball position is too far forward, like a driver, you may hit the ground before the ball, costing you good contact and distance. Why? Because the fairways of today are typically very short grass, so in order to hit a truly solid fairway wood, you need to hit the ground and maybe even make a divot. I like to see the ball position slightly forward, but relatively centered in your body for most golfers for fairway woods, similar to a long iron or a hybrid. While all golfers and golf swings are not the same, ball position is certainly a key to great fairway woods. A post shared by Justin Thomas Better ball position
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