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Hey, if you have trouble hitting fairway woods off the ground and you top a lot of them, Brook’s with me here today. She’s a college player. She’s got a great swing, scared of her 3-wood, and she doesn’t need to be. I’m going to show you exactly what the most common cause for topping a 3-wood is, especially if you’re a pretty good player. If you’re a really high handicap player, there may be several factors that’s causing you to top a 3-wood, but for a good player, it’s usually pretty simple. Going to show Brooke a very simple drill to correct it. So stay tuned and learn something. [Music] That one went pretty well. Yeah, it’s okay. 233 is not bad, huh? [Music] [Music] What’s the tendency for this club? Does it go right? Does it go left? Does it go both? Um, both or I top it. Okay. 80% of the time. 80%. All right. I don’t believe that. [Music] Brooks, like a lot of you with fairway woods, she’s really scared to death at topping her 3-wood. She’s topping it because her path is too much to the right, which puts the bottom of her swing behind the ball. Sometimes that’s ball position related. As you’ll see, I moved her ball just slightly forward and that helped. And then I used a towel drill to stagger the towels where I made her path go more to the left. And if she’ll just continue to work with those towels, it will improve her 3-wood immensely. If you notice on um club path, that last one was a little better, but do you see where with this club you’ve averaged plus five? All right. Do you know what that means? Swinging out. Yes. Okay. And so if I if I was to swing at zero, not saying that um zero’s the perfect way to swing by any means, but just say if I was going to swing zero, my path would look just like this hula hoop where it come from the inside and then go back to the inside that. Okay? And then whenever I’m plus five, do you see that it points it to the right? But what did that do to the bottom of the swing? Made it more back. Moved it back. So would I top it if I swung like that? Yeah. Yes. All right. So So it’s simply if you’re having trouble with and 3-wood’s probably the hardest club to hit. There’s no room under the ball. Okay. It’s the longest club with the least amount of loft that we don’t use a T with. Does that make sense? Yes. And so you’ve got to be pretty precise impact wise to make good contact. Okay? But as good as your golf swing is, there should be no reason why that shouldn’t be one of the best clubs in your bag. Okay? All right. But what it is is we’ve got we’ve got to change that path just a little bit to where it’s closer to zero. Maybe only I still like it plus, but maybe only plus one or plus two or or plus three at the most. Make sense? And it could be ball position. Okay, you just might experiment with moving a little bit more forward. If I did this like a belly button drill and I just turned and I turned, well, that would be a zero club path, but I would have to hit it right right here. That’s where the ball would have to be. If the ball would be further back here, I’m going to hit it while it’s still going to the right. So, I don’t think you’re swinging inside out too much. I just think you’re hitting the ball with it too far back and then your club’s going to the right too much at that particular moment. Okay. Does that make sense? Yes. All right. And so the probably the easiest way to work on three-wood outside is to take a couple towels and stagger them like this. Okay. And I would put the ball just a little farther forward in your stance like we talked about. And I want that club head going through those towels, not that direction. Does that make sense? Yeah. So, try it for me and see what happens. [Music] Good. We were only 2.9 that time. Did you see that? No. Yep. How’d that feel? Good. Yep. Good. Little further forward. [Music] Look at that club path. 0.5. [Music] Does that feel better? Yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah. I thought I hit this towel. You did a little bit, but you were only 2.7. Do you see that? Yeah. Yeah. So, it’s okay. And that towel’s pretty close right there. And so, you might hit it with the shaft and not the head sometimes. [Music] [Music] But this club would be pretty important for you competitively, right? You’re starting to hit it pretty far. So if you hit a really good drive and you got 230 to the green, wouldn’t you like to hit 3-wood on the green and make eagle maybe? Huh? Yeah. Instead of laying up. Would you agree? Yeah. Yeah. All right. [Music] Good swinging. [Music] It’s the first one you did that on. But you can see when you do that then that club path is getting more than plus three. And so it’s the club path that’s causing you to top it. Yeah. It’s not that you’re lifting up. It’s not you’re not keeping your eye on the ball. None of that stuff. Okay. It’s just the path. Okay. So just to understand that good. All right. Good enough. Good job. You’re swinging at it. Great. So the benefit to her is going to be as her path gets closer to zero with 3-wood, she’s going to make solid contact every time. and she plays golf at a very high level in college and she needs to be able to hit fairway woods great cuz right now when she gets on a par five that she could reach in two very easily with a fairway wood, she’s laying up to 100 yards and trying to score from there. Well, the girls that can hit fairway woods are going to beat her brains in. Typically, she’s playing four par fives every time she plays. And if she’s laying up on those, she’s probably given a stroke away on each hole of the field. And so it’s imperative for her to have the confidence to be able to hit a fairway wood when she needs to. Brooke did a great job. Great swing. If you like this video, and if you’re a higher handicap that has trouble with fairway woods, Patrick and I did a video a few months ago at Dalhuzzi specializing just on fairway shots. links in the description and check it out.