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This concept video is discussing the three wood and the long iron swing.

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So I've had a number of questions about golfers who specifically struggle with

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the fairway

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woods or long irons.

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They'll usually say the three wood is the hardest club in the bag.

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I usually top it or chunk it.

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It's usually a contact problem.

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So there are two big things that I think are more of a requirement for the

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three wood

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than any other club in the bag.

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So number one is I think of all the clubs, the three wood does the best with

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powering

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it from the lower body.

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So if you're more of an upper body dominant swing, the three wood tends to

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cause problems,

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especially if you lack component number two.

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And component number two is the arm extension through the ball.

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I think if I had to boil it down to one trait that gives people the most fits

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with the three

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wood, it is if the arms either stay the same or even bend on the way through,

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it's almost

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impossible to have enough tilt to create a flat spot and sweep the ground.

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When the arms stay the same or when they bend, the shape of the swing has much

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more of this

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V shape.

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It has a very limited flat spot.

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The three wood is even harder than the driver because the driver being teed up,

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if you can

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time and train where your upper body is in space, then you can kind of get away

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with

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it as long as you're not swinging too hard and you're able to control the club

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face.

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But with the three wood, if your arms are bending on the way through, you're

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almost always

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going to struggle with more of a thin contact and a lot of top shots.

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So oftentimes I'll have people start with that drag through drill where we'll

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put the club

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on the ground near the right foot and then we'll turn our hips like we were

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using them

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in the full swing and then we'll work on straightening the arms through impact

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there.

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And as a result, when I do that dynamically, now I get the club to slide along

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the ground.

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If you are used to more bending the arms or keeping the arms the same kind of

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like this,

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you'll see that that will tend to come off the ground too quickly.

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I would top that.

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And so then you get stuck with in order to do this and make solid contact, you

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have to

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lunge your upper body on top.

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Well now with the loft of the three wood, I'm going to hit this really low, so

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then I

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start bending to try to add loft and now I get worse and worse into this

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topping pattern.

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So usually I find that the order that makes sense for most people who struggle

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with the

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three wood, the fairway woods and lesser extent but related the long irons is

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first you work

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on getting the arms to extend.

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Getting the arms to extend you'll help eliminate the top shot, but you might

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hit some big poles

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until you get the sequencing down.

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So first I work on the arm straightening and then secondly we're going to work

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on getting

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the hips more involved.

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When you put them together you can do some nine to threes, ten to twos and such

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, where

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basically I'm going to feel hips and arm extension.

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And in doing so, hips and arms extension, I get the club to slide along the

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ground.

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Now we'll do more of a ten to two, hips, arms extension, a little bit of a fade

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, maybe

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didn't quite control the club face.

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Three woods are hard to do in the less than full swing, but I also think that's

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part of

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the brilliance of them.

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If you get good at it, then that one was pretty good.

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If you get good at doing ten to twos, nine to threes with the three wood, then

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it becomes

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a lot easier or more consistent when you add full swing.

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So now we'll get closer to full length swing.

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Get that further down the line.

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Okay, so we're going to focus on using my lower body and then extending the

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arms on

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the way through.

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Kind of like that.

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So feeling those arms really extend is key number one.

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I think that's the most important factor for the longer clubs like the three

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wood.

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And then secondly, is leading with the lower body so that the arms can extend

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later.

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If you master those two keys, you'll build a nice little flat spot and find

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success with

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your fairway woods and long irons.