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this drill video is back wheels first for the three wood so the three wood can

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cause problems or I guess I should say a fairway wood but the three wood in

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particular can cause problems for a lot of amateurs they tend to hit it really

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low on the face and they tend to have a little bit exaggerated slice to the

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pattern partly because of that low face contact well I when I ask my students

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with the three wood should the club hit the ground most of the time they're not

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sure and I'd say more often than not the guess is know that they think that

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you're just trying to pick it and so what ends up happening is they tend to

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hit with too much half lean but the club coming up and they'll hit it on the

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bottom of the club now just like the driver the three wood has a curved face

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so let's say that this is a 15 degree loft right in the middle if you go down

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to the bottom it may be five degrees less than that so if you're hitting it and

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it's launching really low with no spin and no energy transfer there's a very

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good chance that you're hitting it low on the face if you're not hitting the

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ground then that that almost guarantees that you're hitting it low on the face

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so what I challenge golfers to do or my students to do is let's try and get

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contact with the ground but I don't want my three wood to knife into the

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ground with the leading edge so similar to using the bounce on a pitch shot you

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want the shaft to be a little bit more vertical so in order to determine if you

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have the shaft more vertical you'll be able to tell if the club is hitting the

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back wheels first and kind of sliding on the ground or if it's hitting more the

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front wheels first and digging into the ground like that so what I mean is if

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we

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look at the sole of the club we're gonna try to get the backside to hit into

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the

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ground not the front side you see that in order to do that I'm gonna have the

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shaft a little bit more vertical so we'll work through progressions of 9 to 3

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and

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then ultimately up to full swings but the whole goal here is I'm trying to hit

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the back edge into the ground and just feel the club kind of slide through

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impact instead of having a very abrasive leading edge feel so in

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demonstrating first we'll try to get a little 9 to 3 style trying to get the

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back edge of the club to hit the ground kind of like that so there you'll be

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able to see that there's some scuff mark there and the scuff mark started just

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before the golf ball let's say a half inch inch before the golf ball I don't

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want you to be I don't want you to hit the ground a few inches behind the golf

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ball but we do want to hit the ground in order to get high enough face contact

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you can see if we kind of zoom in on the club there you can see that the

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contact because the club hit the ground the contact is higher up on the face

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that's going to give me a lot more lunch golfers who tend to really struggle

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with

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the three would tend to not hit the ground and launch it really low okay so

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once you've got the feeling with more than 9 to 3s then we can take it on to

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more of a full swing still trying to get that feeling of the back edge hitting

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into the ground now just with any of our low point drills the two main factors

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to

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how the club hits the ground or where is my upper body in space or my sternum

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and

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how straight are my arms so in order to make sure that I hit the back at legs

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first I'm gonna make sure that I have enough side bend and axis tilt so my

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upper body is behind the golf ball and then I'm gonna make sure that my arms

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are extending through the shot instead of before impact most of the golfers who

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struggle with the three would tend to have a little bit more of this lunge and

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maybe more of a scoop with the with the arms or more of a kind of a late

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cast getting the club down like this we're gonna get most of that down from

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the side bend and then we'll feel those arms kind of bring the club through so

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that the back edge brushes the ground and stays low to the ground for a long

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period of time so we'll do one more one more three wood here

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so that one was pretty good as far as the ground contact you can see the the

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little bit of a scuff mark right next to the ball if you're not sure where the

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scuff mark is you can always use a line or some type of T or put another golf

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ball there so you have an indicator as far as where you hit the ground but if

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you're struggling with a three wood make sure you're making ground contact with

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the right part of the club.