How To Hit Fairway Woods And Achieve More Distance
Using your fairway woods will give you maximum distance down the fairway. When you are new to the game, fairway woods can be harder to control than irons, but you should learn how to use them as soon as possible. The expertise to hit fairway woods, enabling you to hit longer distances, will help you lower your scores. An excellent fairway wood shot will get you off to a great start for the rest of the hole.
The most commonly used woods are the 1, 3 and 5. They are designed to advance your distance and power without any extra effort.
Evan though the size and shape of the club head is hugely different from the irons, the extra distance is achieved through the longer length of the shafts.
The longer shaft means the club head has a greater distrance to travel and a wider arc. When you swing a wood with the same rhythm and tempo as an iron, the club head travels around the arc in the same time, but has to cover much more distance, and this raises the speed. The increase in club head speed provides you with the added power to hit the ball longer distances. It isn’t necessary to speed up your swing to achieve faster club head speed. In fact for every full shot from driving to pitching your tempo should be the same.
The longer shaft of the fairway wood does lead to changes in your address including stance, posture and ball position. null
First of all you stand further away from the ball than you would for an iron because of the longer shaft length. To help maintain your balance you will need a wider stance. You address the ball with your back more upright and the ball position is opposite the inside of your left heel. Take the club away slowly, keeping the club head low to the ground.
Rotate your upper body freely as your left arm swing the club back. Your weight should have transferred from the central positon at address to the inside of the right foot by the time you are at the two-thirds point in your backswing.
At the top of your backswing your shoulders should have rotated 90 degrees and your hips 45 degrees. Make sure you don’t start the downswing before you have completed the backswing. A very slight delay at the top of the backswing before you start the downswing helps.
Rotate your left hip to the left when you start the downswing. This will pull your arms and hands into an ideal striking position.
Your swing plane is flatter so the club head approaches the ball at a shallower angle. The ball is struck at a later point in your swing and you sweep through. This is the reason for the ball being placed inside your left heel.
Allow your weight to move across to the outside of your left foot after impact. Allow the momentum of your swing to pull your right shoulder and your head to face the target. Your whole body should face the target. Most of your weight should be on your left foot and you should be balanced when you finish.
Practice at the driving range with your fairway woods and you will soon be gaining additional distance down the fairway and your handicap will be dropping.
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