Make 1 Change And Start CRUSHING Your 3 Wood

In this video we're talking about three wood and I'm going to show you how making one very very simple change down at impact can have you absolutely crushing that three wood from the fairway. So how are we going to get you to hit this three wood better from the ground and then at the end of the video we're going to show you how you would apply that when you're on the tee and you can see I'm on the tee here and there's a reason for that. We're going to focus on one specific thing and that specific thing can really make all the difference but before we get started if you're new here lovely to be a subscriber a little button down there give that a click and also a little bell notification as well and also get involved drop down in the comments box let me know your thoughts would love to hear from you. So let's start off by looking at some Trackman numbers. I'm going to show you two shots here that have been hit on Trackman with the three wood with some very different ball flights with one number that's quite different. Now there you can see the two shots side by side the one on the left much higher ball flight went much further much more desirable on the golf course the one on the right lower ball flight didn't carry as far and certainly not as good of a golf shot. So look at those two attack angle numbers. You can see that on the left we have a minus attack angle and on the right we have a positive attack angle. It was that difference that slight change in how the club that was delivered to the ball that gave those very different ball flights very different distances. I see more golfers looking like that shot on the right. Why is that? Well let's put this golf ball on the ground because that's what we talk about hitting from the ground. So attack angle is effectively is that club traveling downwards when it hits the ball or is it traveling upwards? Everybody's golf swing will have both of those in there. Your golf club at some point is traveling downwards at some point is traveling upwards and there's a very small part of that golf swing where it's traveling level. So if we hit the ball with the club traveling upwards a couple of things happen. Number one if the club is moving upwards it's technically moving away from the ground therefore what happens is we most likely strike the ball from low in the clubface. We can't really get away from that. The only time we would get away with that is if the ball was sitting in the rough or it was sitting on a t-peg but when it's on the fairway it doesn't work. So when we hit up on the ball we hit low in the face. When we hit low in the face there is something called gear effect. Gear effect makes the club twist and rock back and you can see what that's doing to the loft of the golf club. It's de-lofting it. So three things happen when we hit up on the ball. Number one we hit up on the ball. Number two that causes it to hit low in the face. Number three it causes the loft to decrease. So you can see how hitting up on the golf ball causes lower shots. Lower shots mean less distance. So why do people hit up on the golf ball? Well it's because for years and years and years what have we been told? Sweep the ball away. We see very little loft on the golf club. You know three words, four words, five words we've got very little loft. That little loft, that straight clubface tends to encourage us to sit a little bit more back onto this trail leg. It gives us that sensation that we feel like we need to sweep the ball up into the air and as we start to have all these ideas of sweeping the ball in the air, seeing low loft, it basically encourages us to be too shallow having an upward attack angle and the results aren't as good. I'm pretty sure you can see where we go in this. We need your attack angle to be level or even slightly down and especially with the modern technology we've got in these clubs now it really really helps. So what are we actually going to do? Well first thing we need to do is look at the setup. How do we actually start and set ourselves up to the golf ball? Well what I'd love you to do with your three wood is have the ball around about two to three inches inside your left heel. Now hopefully it will look like that from that camera, it depends where I've got that camera lined up, but effectively we need it around about two balls inside that heel. That's really important. I want a stance width which isn't quite as wide as I would have in my driver. The more I widen my stance, the more I put my sternum behind the ball. We don't want that. We need that sternum behind the ball but not too extreme. So I need my stance probably wider than my irons but not as wide as my driver and this is the really key point. This is the one that most golfers get wrong. Even with this three wood off the ground I'm going to feel like I have a slight amount of weight on my lead side of the setup. We're not talking a huge amount but a little bit of a bump into my lead side so I just feel a touch more pressure in here is really going to help. I also want to make sure that that club shaft is not lent excessively back. I want it pretty level, even a little forwards wouldn't be too bad but certainly not too far back. So there is my setup. That's how I need to address the golf ball to mean that I'm starting off in the right position. I've given myself the greatest chance of delivering it correctly. We can undo all that. We can make swing faults and we can make movements in the swing which undo all that. So this final point is really really key. I'm going to use a peg to highlight this. I'm going to take this thing and place it into the ground around about give or take the width of my club head but I'm going to push it all the way down so it's hardly sticking out of the ground at all. What I'm then going to do is when I set myself up I'm going to have that tee as my external cue, my visual. I actually want to hit a golf shot now and try to remove that tee from the ground. As you can imagine if I lean back, if I scoop, if I sweep, if I hit up the club head is going to move upwards away from that tee. I want to have the sensation that I'm going to be striking the golf ball and taking that tee almost like I'm taking a divot. I won't because the way the club is designed, the length of the club, the angle I swing on, all those things mean I won't take a divot but it's nice to have that idea. Now if I focus on that tee and try and hit that tee I could well hit a perfect tee shot, sorry a perfect three wood and that tee wouldn't be removed. It would stay in place. We don't have to remove that tee it's just there as our external focus. So in order to hit better three woods it's really a case of setting up correctly and having a really clear and a good external focus which helps us deliver the club with a slightly negative attack angle. If you can do those things you're going to be hitting that ball higher in the face, launching it higher, there's more ball speed from there, we get more distance, it's more solid, just better shots all around. Then we're going to show you how to do it from the tee as well. So set my address and my focus now is can I hit the ball and the peg that's on the ground and that was a really nice solid three wood down into that fairway. Tee didn't get removed like we said it doesn't have to it was just there my external. So what do you do when you want to hit a three wood off a par four? You actually get the ability to tee it up like we are here. Well this is the really key point and the key message. Let's say I take my golf ball and I tee my three wood up like this. Suddenly the golf swing that I've just used where I'm achieving a slightly negative attack angle won't work. My club's going to go straight under that ball, I'm going to pop it into the air, it's going to land 60 yards in front of me, it's no good. So as soon as I start to tee the ball up higher, as soon as I start to put the club behind and I see that ball protruding above the top of the club head, I'm encouraged to push the ball forward, I'm encouraged to move the weight back, I'm encouraged to sweep the ball off the peg and that will give me better results than that tee height. What that means is I'm going to need two swings. I'm going to need a three wood swing from the fairway and a three wood swing from the tee. That doesn't make a lot of sense. Surely it would make more sense to have one swing of the three wood works from all scenarios. So as soon as you start teeing the ball too high, it encourages those things that we're trying to avoid. The more times I hit my three wood off this tee, the more I'm leaning back when the ball is still on the ground, those traits creep in and I hit terrible golf shots. So when you are hitting your three wood from the tee, I want it so the top of the peg is literally just protruding from the ground. When I place my ball on, I'm now confident there's going to be no grass, no debris between the club and the ball. I place my club behind the ball, it almost doesn't look as if it's teed up, but it is, it's a fraction above the ground. What this means now is that same swing that I did from the fairway will absolutely work from the tee. I'm probably going to get slightly better results because it's a cleaner line, it is slightly pegged up, but it means I have one technique, one swing, one concept, one idea with that three wood. Put me in the rough, same thing applies. Put me in the fairway, same thing applies. Put me in the tee, same thing applies. That's the best way to use your three wood. Rather than having it on the ground, teed up, different swings, it makes it far more complicated. So when you tee your ball up, tee it very, very low and use the same ideas and same concepts that you would if you're in the fairway. Right, I hope that helps you absolutely crush that three wood. Usual stuff is down below and I'll hopefully see you back here again for a future video.