Why You Keep Topping Fairway Woods (It’s Not What You Think)

Struggling to stop topping your fairway woods or hybrids? In this video, golf coach Danny Maude reveals a simple, feel-based drill that helps golfers learn how to hit fairway woods and hybrid golf clubs cleanly and consistently — even if you’ve struggled with them for years.

Known for breaking down golf swing basics into easy, actionable steps, Danny Maude shows how a small setup change and a new way of thinking about your strike can help you hit your driver straight, strike your irons better, and even hit your driver longer.

This golf lesson is packed with simple golf tips that you can take straight to the course or driving range — no training aids or complicated mechanics required.

Whether you’re just starting out or looking to fine-tune your golf swing, these practical golf tips will help you build confidence and hit longer, higher shots with your long clubs.

Perfect for anyone searching for how to stop topping the ball, improve fairway wood contact, or hit hybrids more effectively.

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This golf lesson provides a couple of wonderful drills to help you hit your driver straight.If you are a beginner golfer and are looking for some golf driver tips that are simple and easy to do then you are going to love this.

I will show you the golf swing slow motion so that you can see what you need to do to improve.

We look at 3 things:

1. How to stop slicing your driver
2. How to swing more in to out or how to swing more inside out
3, How to get the correct impact position with driver

and I hope to do all this with simple golf tips so you can create an effortless golf swing

so this week I’d really love to help you hit your 
hybrids and fairway woods off the ground so much   better i do appreciate that these aren’t easy 
clubs to hit the longest golf clubs you have in   the bag what you’re hitting off the fairway with 
so they can be tricky but what I want to do is   I want to share with you just two things that I 
share with my students one revolves around making   sure you’ve got the correct setup every single 
time and the other is a really great drill you   can take straight to the golf course that can stop 
you topping it thinning it and what it does is it   helps to guarantee strike and really help you 
hit them further so you can get much closer to   those par fives or certainly onto those power 
fours in two before I do though look if you’re   new to the channel your first golf lessons of mine 
please consider subscribing i release golf videos   just like this one every single week to try and 
help you improve your game plus you never have to   remember a thing everything we discuss here I’ll 
put into a free downloadable practice practice   guide in the description box below so before we 
get into the drill that you can take to the course   let’s deal with one major misconception with 
fairway woods a lot of times you know certainly   Max was the case when he came and see me that 
he was setting up to a fairway wood thinking it   was a little bit like a driver and he wanted to 
almost try and hit up on the ball mainly because   he wasn’t getting the ball up in the air but 
whenever a ball is on the ground I want you to   think I’ve got to find a way to hit slightly 
down on it no matter what club you’re using   the reason being if we can avoid any ground 
behind the golf ball that’s really important   we stop really doing we want to strike that ball 
first so like any golf swing there’s a low point   to your rack which is roughly um in line with your 
lead shoulder here so if you put a ball anywhere   back of that like this so this is my ultimately 
kind of my low point if my ball is back of that   it means I’m going to hit hopefully the ball first 
then the ground and what that does is it gives me   a real margin of error and almost guarantees 
strike however what it also does you’ll notice   here if I in a sense move the ball back in my 
stance here I’m also look delofting this golf club   now this is a problem for most golfers because 
when you hit a fairway wood for instance which   has 15 degrees of loft on if you don’t have club 
head speed and we’ve almost kind of delofted it   here so we’ve taken some of that loft off now the 
problem is when you start to strike down on this   golf ball that 15° might start to become maybe 10 
and if you don’t have the club head speed you’ll   never get it up in the air so what I’ll generally 
say to many of my students is make sure make sure   that you’re using enough loft so I’ve got look 3 
wood here but I look in my bag I’ve actually got   look a trusty 7 wood and I love this because what 
it does is it means it’s versatile it gives me the   option if I wanted to now to help guarantee strike 
i can move the ball back a good club width here   i could get my body forward and strike down on 
this golf ball and guarantee strike because even   though I’m coming down I’ve got 20 degrees of loft 
to play with with this 7 wood that makes a massive   difference so before we go into obviously the 
drill it’s really important to understand like   based on your club head speed make sure you’ve got 
enough loft on your uh 3-wood 5 wood or 7 wood and   maybe even like with my dad I got him into 
a 9 wood why because again it means it can   encourage you to hit down on the golf ball and 
the ball will still go up in the air if my dad   was using a 3-wood and he was coming down on it as 
he should do the ball won’t go up in the air and   before you know it he’s falling back into these 
kind of leaning back here topping the golf ball   trying to get the ball up in the air now let’s 
get stuck into the drill so the drill you can   take straight to the golf course it’s going to 
help you with your ball strike and it will really   help you generate some effortless power too so 
with Max who I gave this drill to I said “Look,”   he now understood that he had to slightly down 
on the fairway but he didn’t know how to feel   it so this is where the drill comes in so when 
you make a swing I said to him “Max what I want   you to do is I want you to throw the club down 
opposite your right foot for a second so throw   it into the ground like feel like you’re going 
to throw the the leading edge the front section   of this golf club here into the ground.” Now when 
he did this first of all he did this and what he   was doing he was throwing without realizing the 
back edge he struggled to get this front section   hitting the ground why because unconsciously 
to him he’d been training himself like a lot   of students I see to almost get the ball up in 
the air with his fairway wood yeah didn’t feel   right for him to do this motion now this is 
important this is why he was topping it right   so I said “Look just keep going and keep going 
till you start feeling look feeling the leading   edge just being thrown into the ground behind 
you.” Now you’ve done that I want you to get a   that similar feeling much closer to where the 
ball’s going to be yeah so as he’s doing this   he’s like “Okay you don’t have to do big swings 
to start with just what would you have to do?” And   he’s like “First of all he’s trying to reach.” 
I said “It’s not going to work what would your   body need to do that’s right look how much I’m 
moving having to There we go so it’s just an   inch closer now we’re getting closer now we’re 
getting closer right it makes sense i’m moving   forward to create that same feeling here look as 
I had here now we needed to kind of make it into   a much more of a normal swing so I said “Right I 
want you now to make the club and feel the weight   of the club swinging start with that first and 
as you’re swinging I want you to throw the club   down behind and gradually look there you go i’m 
have There we go that’s the feeling i can feel   the front section of that golf club just bruising 
the ground that would be look the back section you   probably see my body almost leaning back so there 
that’s the top there there we go so he’s now got   a free flowing club and he’s paying attention now 
throughout this process he would jump in and out   and start over trying really hard he would start 
to almost force it down i said “No don’t force   it this is this is a sensory experience it’s a 
feeling keep the club swinging and just paying   attention to what part of that club is hitting 
the ground then go to the golf ball you’ve got   that sensation get the ball position look you 
could at least a ball inside your lead heel you   could even be I’ve got seven i could even move 
it a club width inside because I’ve got loft to   play with to help guarantee strike and then all 
we’re doing is the same type of principles here   was making that club swing freely and imagine 
that same feeling we had back here now much   closer to the golf ball actually just before 
I hit this shot I want you to I just noticed   myself going down the grip slightly very naturally 
instinctively the ball is above my stance here i’m   on a slope like this so I’ve done this i’m 
naturally paying attention to it you might   not do this on a regular basis to take in into 
consideration the slope of the fairway too so get   myself set here i’ve got my setup in place ball 
positions back let’s get back into this nice and comfortable just like that okay beautiful strike 
moved it forward i’ve got 324 yards to go here and   that’s going to give me a great opportunity to get 
up and down uh for the next one now Max asked me   a very very good question he said “How do I take 
this to the golf course Danny i can’t obviously be   taking chunks out the fairway when I’m playing.” 
So it’s just a feeling you need to start to create   so do some do some swings and when you do these 
lovely kind of flowing swings pay attention to   two things one where is this club landing relative 
to your feet and how is it landing which part of   the club is striking the ground if it’s anywhere 
close to the back part then we’re going to be in   trouble we want to get nice this low section of 
this sole plate just bruising that ground and in   the right spot so as I’m swinging here I’m paying 
attention to what part of the club is striking   that ground that’s really really important now 
when he did this initially like a lot of students   he was trying to force it don’t do that that’s 
just overthinking pay attention and swing the   club feel the weight of the club and then notice 
what part look is striking the ground i’ll just   hit a gentle one here you walk into the shot here 
nice and simply here look I’ve got that sensation   and I just hit away so you take that sensation 
there and then you just go with it so understand   really really important make sure please make sure 
you’ve got enough loft on your fairway woods seven   woods are a brilliant addition they will go much 
further sometimes than 3-woods used correctly okay   once you’ve done that just get that sensation 
of your weight needs to be naturally forward we   want to get that gentle bit of compression with 
with fairy woods here to guarantee the strike and   that is as simple as that i hope you enjoyed the 
video if you did give it a thumbs up and share   this fairwood video with a friend who you know 
needs a little bit help off the fairways um if   you love videos like this one and you’d like to 
some help with your driver please go and check   this video out right here and of course look if 
you’re new to the channel it’s one of the first   lessons of mine press that subscribe button 
right down here i’ll put a free downloadable   practice guide in the description box below but 
until next week have a wonderful golfing week