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talking about fairway woods welcome to
me and my goal TV
okay guys so we're here at the Osprey on
the ninth hole par-5 dogleg left
we've got 240 yards left to the hole
perfect for a fairway wood Pierce yep
and this question is from Andrew Moore
Hall saying he's struggling hitting his
fairway woods off the deck and saying
that he's struggling with a lot of
information out there on YouTube he's
not sure who to believe so he wants us
to clear up some things for him so first
of all Andrews sending a message to his
piece that he's trying to hit the golf
ball very shallow with me Candice woods
and we see this often with The Farewell
it's a very difficult shot to play and
that the important thing when hitting
this hit in this club is contact yes
okay we want to make a solid contact
because that ultimately is going to give
us the distance yeah whenever we use a
fairway wood it is really about creating
some distance accuracy is never going to
be 100% yeah it's a better advance in it
down the hole and getting us closer to
the hole so important thing as you
mentioned is strike now when we playing
a fairway would pierce the bottom of the
golf swing
okay needs to be at the golf ball very
different to the iron where the bottom
of the golf swing is after the ball
strike the iron first and then the
ground so iron hitting more downward
perhaps yeah and with a driver we're
hitting the golf ball generally trying
to hit it on the way up okay so the
bottom of the golf swing generally
bottoms out before so it's tricky to get
that right spot where the club is gonna
meet that ball at the right point so
we're gonna go through just a couple of
things that you can do here Andrew just
to help you find that bottom and the
golf swing and help you strike that ball
better so this this just goes through a
couple of these okay so you mentioned
we're after this sort of flat spot at
the bottom the arc of the swing now by
having the ball forward with the driver
it allows us to hit the ball on the way
up by having the ball a little bit
further back with the iron it allows you
to hit more downward so it makes sense
if we're looking for that flat spot it's
between the two so ball fall to the
driver if we can move that a little bit
further back it's going to give us that
flat spot so it's going to allow us to
hit that three would get that solid
contact as you major so ball position
just moves a little bit back to where
the driver yeah sure sure so we saw that
for the center obviously we don't put it
in the middle of the stance but we yep
absolutely
so from there so I mean we do a lot with
our students is we get them to then find
that flat spot so we actually get them
to have some practice swings maybe some
mini ones to start with hitting the
ground
and then hitting background we can
actually see you do to the wet here now
obviously the wind the winters here at
the moment at UK we can actually see
where that club first strikes the ground
and we can actually see it's sort of
almost a brush of where that golf club
is Pierce I'm sure in the middle of that
brush is where that ball should be yeah
you got it flat spot is exactly where it
should be so it's great feedback if you
got arranged to practice you can see
exactly where that ball need to the
musicianship so ball position is very
very important now we've got the ball
position there we've got the practice
swings are going to help you find that
flat spot yeah one real key thing going
away from the sort of technique side of
it Pierce is club selection so a lot of
our clients come to us and they've got
maybe Drive three five seven wood too
many woods and a lot of you guys are
using a 3-wood off the off the deck now
a 3-wood off the deck is is great if
you're correcting the ball space because
it's okay if you're strong here it's
going to give you that fly it's going to
give you some curry which is really
important but the majority of our
clients really we encourage them to go
more towards an 18-degree minimum really
eighteen degrees upwards for sure that
all depends on ball speed if you create
some speed then you can come down a
little bit low but loft is what you want
and a fairway wood because we want that
ball yeah I think we often get a lot of
people coming to us and say well I hit
the seven wood and my 5-wood further
than a 3-wood and especially in the
winter as well when the ball isn't going
to roll very far you just don't get the
carry the three left foot so a lot of
people haven't got the club head speed
the power to get that through with
flying through the air that the required
amount so at the five wooden seven wood
the same amount in the end actually may
even go a little bit further and 3-wood
may be on a very hard golf course
running golf course you can get away
with it but again the consistency factor
then goes out the window so 18 degrees
up with 18 degrees that's worth checking
that out guys as well so ok Pearce we've
got our a 240 downhill slightly but I've
agreed to work with there so I'm sure
you can knock it on from here so let's
go through your sort of routine so yeah
good idea
missed it that time but a good idea to
get some practice swings
hitting that ground
okay we're going off there right let's
give this a go middle of the green I
reckon I've struck that really clean off
the top there but yeah as well yeah
that's okay take that okay guys okay
guys how'd that helps think about your
ball position think about that flat spot
it's going to help you hit better
fairway woods
thanks again we'll see you soon
we then start the dance so you can see
ways so it's almost sort of same alot of
the gulper sort of swing back almost
have a little bit of a pause or a break
and then go again now that would imply
that there is two motions yes back swing
