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The struggle shooting video is looking at three wood off the deck.

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So some golfers have more difficulty with specific shots compared to other shots and it

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usually relates to their overall swing pattern.

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So if you're a golfer who struggles with three wood off the deck, this video is designed

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for you.

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There are really three keys that I'm looking for when I see a golfer who's struggling

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specifically with the three wood and they may be able to hit it off the tee where you've

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got it pegged up.

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But once you get it on the ground and you need the characteristics that work with

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the three wood kind of falls apart.

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So those three issues that they're typically going to have trouble with are either getting

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steep arms in transition, having a narrowing arc width or having an upper body lunge.

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Those three things produce angle of attack and flat spot or bottom of the swing issues to

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tend to not work very well with the three wood.

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So to help you figure out which one of those you may be struggling with, I'd suggest

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using some video and looking at your overall feedback.

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If you're using video, which you'll look for when you're looking for steep arms

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is in transition, you'll tend to see the shaft get a little bit more vertical or you'll

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tend to see the shaft get vertical compared to the torso.

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So I could have steep arms and be shallow like this and I'll still tend to struggle

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with a three wood or I could be steep arms and steep body and I'll really struggle with

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the three wood because it'll build into that second key.

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And that second key is the narrowing arc width.

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So the arc width is looking at the distance between the grip or the handle and my upper

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body and the guys who are really good at hitting these you know, full swings with the three

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wood or potentially even the driver.

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They tend to have that increasing on the way through.

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So you'll tend to see this full unhing, you'll tend to see that full arm extension and

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you'll tend to see the grip furthest away from them after impact or kind of in this

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zone here.

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Golfers who tend to struggle with more of the thin or even top shots will tend to have

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that arc width get wide before they go off ball and then possibly be narrowing it on the

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way through.

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So that would be kind of check number two.

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Make sure I'm not really bending the arms and what will relate to that or make sure I'm

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not narrowing the arc width and what will relate to that is probably the most common

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second of the steep arms.

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But the most common is going to be this four wood lunge.

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So the four wood lunge would be the upper body getting a little bit more nose on top of

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the golf ball.

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And so if I continue to have my arms really extend with my upper body on top of the golf

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ball like that, I would tend to have a really steep angle of attack which for a club

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that has so little loft as the three wood it's going to be an issue and for a club

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where I have to control the bottom of the swing with a more shallow path like the three

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wood that's going to be an issue.

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So you can you can use an alignment stick to help you with the upper body staying behind

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the golf ball.

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So essentially putting it in the ground just as a little bit of a spatial awareness

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tool making sure that the upper body stays well behind especially during the release

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not getting forward or on top of it.

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As far as the shallow arms we've got a number of drills to help you work on practicing

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the shallow arm movement as well as the arm extension.

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When it all comes together it will allow you to do something simple such as just brushing

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the ground while the upper body stays behind.

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If you have a hard time brushing the ground right where the golf ball is going to be when

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your upper body stays behind you're probably suffering from one of these three and it's

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going to show up with your contact with the three wood.

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So if I did kind of a slow motion demonstration and then I'll hit one at full speed but if I'm

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doing a slow motion demonstration try to get a little more square to the camera.

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You'll tend to see there's that shallowing of the arms that upper body staying behind

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and actually working a little bit behind and then as I extend those arms on the way

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through you'll see the club just bottom out and brush the ground.

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You can always use your your finding and brushing the ground as home base and just work

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on getting the club to brush the ground which will work with all the clubs with a three

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wood you just have to make sure that it's brushing kind of very gently and well forward

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of where the upper body is.

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So demonstrating making sure that my upper body works behind and you'll see the evidence

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kind of of that scuff turf right around there to make sure that I know that I got the

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club to brush the ground means I probably had my arc width under control and I know

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that my upper body stayed behind because I've used the shaft as a reference and so I know

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what it feels like to keep that upper body behind.

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So now we'll take a look at it in slow motion.