Why 90% of Golfers Can’t Hit Their Woods Off The Ground [Video]

0:00 | so this week we’re talking Fairy Woods

0:02 | if you can learn to hit your Fairy Woods

0:03 | off the ground effectively you can start

0:05 | to get much closer to the green on these

0:08 | long par fives now this week I had a

0:10 | golf school with a number of students

0:12 | really struggling with this part of

0:13 | their game some would top the ball some

0:15 | would thin it someone really struggle to

0:16 | get the ball Airborne now by the time

0:18 | we’d finished every single one of them

0:20 | were striking it loads better and their

0:22 | confidence would really come up in this

0:24 | video I’m going to give you basically

0:26 | five simple wees that you can kind of

0:28 | use or adapt to help you hit your Woods

0:31 | off the ground effectively and really

0:33 | consistently the likelihood is you won’t

0:34 | need them all but a combination of one

0:35 | or two is going to super super help now

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0:50 | description box below so tip number one

0:52 | and this happens before we even get into

0:54 | all this cool stuff that’s going to

0:56 | really help you with your ball striking

0:57 | can going have a look at this you need

0:59 | to assess your lie now look at this if I

1:03 | if you end up on The Fairway and you

1:04 | have a beautiful lie like this you can

1:08 | get the full face of that club into the

1:10 | back of the golf ball in fact you could

1:12 | get any club into the back of that golf

1:13 | ball that’s perfect for hitting your

1:16 | Fairy Woods off the ground so great tick

1:18 | in the Box you can use your fairywood or

1:20 | your hybrid you’re all good to go but

1:22 | look at this come going to have a look

1:24 | at this one just a few inches this side

1:28 | I’ve just found the rough

1:30 | and now look just I can’t get that club

1:35 | to the bottom of that golf ball I can

1:36 | only get it one/ third up from the

1:38 | bottom that is a top every day of the

1:41 | week now I could avoid hitting a top by

1:45 | actually striking down on that golf ball

1:47 | maybe moving the ball slightly further

1:48 | back in my strance that would certainly

1:50 | improve my strike but if I’ve got a

1:52 | three-w in my hands and I’ve lent and

1:54 | I’m hitting down I’ve taken all that

1:56 | Loft off of that freeway that 15° and

1:58 | turned it into almost like five that

2:00 | Ball’s going to come off like a rocket

2:01 | too low to the ground so when your ball

2:04 | is maybe not even in the rough look at

2:06 | this here look if I move that ball there

2:08 | that’s still nestled look see how it

2:10 | just drops into like a little muddy kind

2:13 | of indentation there that makes that lie

2:16 | very difficult you’re going to have to

2:18 | come down on it whenever you come down

2:20 | on it you deloft something you’re going

2:22 | to have to deloft the ball’s going to go

2:23 | back in your stance suddenly now a

2:26 | fairywood is probably not the best

2:28 | choice you’re going to need something

2:29 | with more Loft if you’ve got a hybrid

2:31 | maybe like a five or a six that has

2:34 | maybe 26 27° that’s okay on a lie like

2:37 | that because you can come down on it but

2:38 | three woods and five Woods very very

2:41 | risky okay in fact joking aside me and

2:43 | my dad went to St Andrews recently my

2:45 | dad who’s been playing golf for like 30

2:47 | odd years probably 40 odd years took a

2:49 | hybrid out of pretty much a hole on a

2:52 | golf course so no matter how long you’ve

2:53 | been playing we all make these mistakes

2:56 | but this is one of the reasons why so

2:57 | many people top it it’s not down to your

2:58 | swing is cuz you haven’t assessed your

3:00 | lie so you’ve assessed the lie you’re

3:02 | almost ready to make a swing but there’s

3:04 | one more thing you need to do beforehand

3:06 | remember the golf swing is a circle yeah

3:11 | and there’s always a low point to that

3:13 | Circle really really important now I’ve

3:16 | got my driver here because I want to

3:17 | show the difference between a driver a

3:19 | fairway wood a hybrid and an iron now

3:22 | with a driver I set up here look with a

3:24 | ball in line with my lead heel now why

3:27 | do I do that because I want to hit this

3:30 | ball it’s beautifully perched up on a te

3:33 | I want to hit the ball slightly on the

3:34 | way up so I can launch it miles down the

3:36 | Fairway okay now the low point of your

3:38 | circle is directly underneath your lead

3:42 | armpit here now my lead armpit is just

3:44 | set just behind the ball here absolutely

3:47 | perfect for me to Simply make a swing

3:49 | and all from here look I can simply boom

3:51 | hit that ball beautifully off that tea

3:54 | piece of cake right now the problem is

3:58 | if I go to my

4:01 | five wood or three wood and I literally

4:04 | do the same thing what’s going to happen

4:07 | is my low point is behind that ball here

4:11 | and I start to come

4:12 | down I’m now going to hit it up and

4:17 | there’s no T I’m going to top it on the

4:18 | ground right so what do we do well we

4:21 | need to move that ball behind the low

4:26 | point and the way we do that look is we

4:29 | simply we start with a driver position

4:32 | here and what I’m going to do is I’m

4:33 | going to move just about a club and a

4:36 | half’s width about maybe a club a club

4:39 | which will be enough and what I’ve done

4:40 | is my low point now is just ahead of

4:42 | that golf ball this is absolutely ideal

4:44 | look to make a swing where I’m going to

4:47 | swing the club’s going to come

4:48 | beautifully down on the circle strike

4:50 | the ball then the ground just afterwards

4:53 | and make a great

4:58 | strike beautiful now look at this come a

5:00 | quick closer look at this you can see he

5:02 | look there was where the ball was and

5:05 | the divot look is afterwards my low

5:07 | point is after the golf ball this is

5:09 | what’s going to give you your strikes

5:11 | with your woods now the only difference

5:13 | with a hybrid and an iron and it’s very

5:16 | very subtle is every Club every ball

5:20 | that you hit off the ground needs to be

5:22 | struck slightly on the way down so where

5:24 | the uh the Fairwood might be a club

5:27 | width you might do a club and a half

5:29 | with your high okay simple as that

5:32 | anything that’s going to help you strike

5:33 | the ball then the ground this is the

5:35 | main difference between driver or any

5:38 | club for that matter off a tea now some

5:40 | people say well if I what do I do on a

5:43 | if I tee my um Freewood up maybe off a

5:46 | tea well you can get away remember

5:48 | anything off a tea you can get away with

5:50 | a slightly upward strike which is one of

5:52 | the reasons why a lot of players love to

5:54 | hit um they love those lies where you’re

5:57 | perched up in the rough when it’s

5:58 | perched up in the rough you can get away

6:00 | with an upward strike because in theory

6:02 | it’s on a little T anything that’s down

6:05 | nestled down or whatever requires a

6:07 | downward strike so ball position

6:10 | relative to where your low point is very

6:12 | very important experiment with moving it

6:14 | slightly further back so you naturally

6:16 | guarantee a downward strike so tip

6:18 | number three and we’re now on to the

6:20 | swing and trying to help you improve

6:22 | your strike maybe stop topping your

6:23 | Woods get a consistent strike now the

6:26 | simplest way I know for you to try and

6:28 | achieve this and I gave this to one of

6:29 | the guys Clive who is really struggling

6:31 | with consistency is the feet together

6:33 | exercise a lot of the time look

6:35 | fairwoods are tricky they need they’re

6:37 | really require a kind of a premium swing

6:40 | right now the simplest way to achieve

6:43 | that is you put your feet together like

6:44 | this turn your lead foot out now I want

6:47 | you here to maintain a consistent Circle

6:51 | yeah backwards and forwards it’s been

6:53 | discussing it but a lot of times when

6:55 | people are making a swing they’re

6:57 | tending to lift up like this they tend

6:59 | to sway off the ball now what I love

7:02 | about the feet together exercise here to

7:03 | start with at least is this it really

7:06 | helps you maintain and get a sense of

7:08 | swinging IM balance now notice this as

7:12 | you do this I’m not trying to stay still

7:14 | like this I’m just swing my arms I’m

7:16 | basically making a

7:18 | swing Swinging with as much freedom in

7:21 | my ankles my knees my hips as you

7:23 | physically can and simply hold that

7:26 | balance swinging balance now what I love

7:28 | about this is if you go slightly off

7:30 | you’re going to feel it immediately and

7:32 | it gives you a great feedback for you to

7:34 | immediately improve next time okay so

7:36 | what I did is and what Clyde was amazed

7:38 | at when he hit this shot now of course

7:41 | it took him a few attempts initially

7:42 | just to get the feel of this he lost his

7:44 | balance great feedback for him but after

7:46 | a while he could not believe how far he

7:49 | was hitting the shot because the feet to

7:51 | get the

7:52 | drill ensures look at

7:55 | that consistent contact I have to

7:58 | basically swing in balance and stay very

8:03 | and look after the quality of that

8:04 | Circle over and over again and if I lose

8:08 | my balance I’m immediately going to get

8:10 | instant feedback and you will too so

8:13 | learn to swing in balance with your feet

8:15 | together and then gradually move them

8:17 | slightly further apart like this and

8:20 | just Build It Up gradually that way you

8:22 | can build a great

8:24 | swing look at that I’ve absolutely

8:26 | ripped that down the middle of fair we’

8:29 | what is is just a very very tiny tiny

8:31 | motion okay and you can see here I’m

8:34 | taking a slight diot after that golf

8:36 | ball that means I’m striking the ball

8:38 | then the ground this is what’s giving me

8:40 | that lovely strike each and every single

8:42 | time I am not trying to lift the ball up

8:46 | in the air which one thing I want you to

8:48 | just bear in mind before we move on to

8:49 | the next step some of the guys don’t

8:52 | have uh in the group didn’t have the

8:53 | power really to be using a free wood

8:56 | very few people should be using free

8:57 | wood most people should be using five

8:59 | woods and sward things we’ve Loft

9:01 | because they don’t have the club speed

9:03 | if you don’t have the club speed you

9:04 | could put a great swing on your freeway

9:06 | the ball still goes ready really low and

9:08 | the problem is psychologically you start

9:11 | to try to lift the bulp in the air just

9:13 | to get more elevation ruining your swing

9:15 | often using a five wood seven wood

9:17 | you’re going to hit it just as far if

9:19 | not further than you’ll ever hit a free

9:20 | wood so tip number four and this is

9:22 | really helpful for those of you might

9:24 | struggle with you know topping it or

9:26 | sometimes even fatting your kind of um

9:28 | your Fairy Woods and your h

9:29 | now ultimately here it’s radius control

9:32 | you know a lot of times when people are

9:34 | swinging this and they creating this

9:36 | circle what they tend to do often with

9:38 | the fear of maybe hitting the ground

9:40 | they pull up their arms like this you

9:41 | see them kind of almost like this

9:43 | getting quite nervous so what I want you

9:45 | to do is just extend those arms out we

9:47 | want to maintain look the radius of the

9:49 | circle we don’t want those arms kind of

9:51 | lifting now the simplest way to do that

9:53 | let’s combine it with the feet together

9:54 | drill I want you to imagine putting the

9:57 | club maybe a foot behind the ball like

9:59 | this and all we’re going to do stretch

10:00 | out those arms and just imagine gliding

10:03 | the fairywood maybe a couple of feet

10:05 | past the ball so foot behind the ball a

10:08 | couple of feet fast the ball and you’re

10:09 | going to get a sense of this kind of

10:10 | extension through the impact area here

10:13 | right then what you’re going to do

10:14 | you’re going to combine that kind of

10:16 | motion here with the feet together

10:18 | exercise really sensing that you’ve got

10:21 | this kind of long kind of Ark in this

10:24 | swing you haven’t got this kind of chop

10:26 | and this kind of lifting motion you’re

10:28 | really looking after in the bottom of

10:31 | that Circle okay so feet together again

10:34 | just again visualize that kind of

10:36 | sweeping motion yes we’re coming

10:38 | slightly down on it but we’re not

10:39 | chopping down and we’re certainly not

10:41 | lifting up so just visualize that lovely

10:44 | shallow Arc of that Circle again we’ll

10:47 | stick to the feet together drill to

10:49 | really enhance your

10:53 | mechanics absolute Beauty down the

10:56 | middle of the Fairway so tip number five

10:58 | I give it to so many people rhythm with

11:02 | all of this if you find yourself rushing

11:05 | your golf swing in any shape or form

11:07 | find something to kind of concentrate on

11:10 | to create the Rhythm and what I like to

11:13 | do is is I like to put my attention on

11:15 | the club head a lot and and I help my

11:16 | students do this by going one when the

11:19 | club gets to the top of the back we’re

11:21 | going say and two one and two one and

11:27 | two find that Rhythm then go in don’t

11:31 | waste any time get yourself set put our

11:33 | feet fairly close together again okay

11:35 | I’m going to go one and two and what we

11:39 | create look is a beautiful flowing

11:43 | Rhythm that isn’t rushed isn’t snatch it

11:45 | isn’t anxious start to create maybe a

11:49 | combination of those five simple ways to

11:51 | hit your fairwoods and I promise you

11:53 | you’re going to get become much much

11:55 | more consistent off the ground if you

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