How to hit 5 Wood Off The Deck
Hitting fairway woods off the deck
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I hardly know anyone who thinks that
hitting fairway woods off the ground is
easy I don't even know if I've ever
heard anybody say my 3-wood off the
ground is my favorite club to hit they
can be difficult but in today's lesson
we're going to show you how to hit these
clubs with success for those of you that
have been struggling with hitting your
fairway woods off the deck I want you to
get a little bit more confident in
hitting down in fact I'd recommend you
just take some practice swings trying to
actually take a little bit of a divot
with your fairway wood many good players
do and the tendency for us with fairway
woods is to want to help the ball up and
as we do that we fall back and we can
hit behind them or we can top them so we
want to focus rather on hitting down and
moving through the ball now the setup is
not that complicated the first thing I
want to point out is I don't want you to
reach for the ball anytime we get a
longer Club in our hands our tendency to
want to reach our posture and our setup
should be basically the same as far as
distance here between our hands and the
golf club so go ahead and set up normal
we do want to play the ball a little
further forward in our stance just so we
come at it a little more shallow helped
launch the ball a little bit but no
extremes here and then a little bit more
weight on your back foot or your right
side if you're a right-hander is a good
idea
so again set up wise ball a little bit
further forward I'm standing the same
distance I always am and then I've got a
little bit of tilt this way now the club
by nature is a little bit longer a
little bit flatter so we're going to let
that naturally take us around on a
little bit of a flatter swing plane
again we want to make sure we're going
to hit down and move through the shot
the last thing I want to point out is
tempo anytime I feel quick or like I get
out of sequence or out of rhythm with a
fairway wood
it's an awful shot so my key thought is
always smooth I feel like I'm in the
swing forever if I feel like it's a
longer slower smooth smoother swing with
building speed I always hit the ball
solid so I'm going to go ahead and try
one here and again I got myself
positioned as I said and I'm going to
think about a longer smoother swing my
swing in other words it's going to feel
like it takes longer to me yet I'm going
to try to hit down and move through it
it's simple and it works remember if you
have an idea for a lesson submit it in
the ask Maria section on my golf
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