There Is No Better Time To Learn How To Hit Fairway Woods.

Do Not Be Afraid of the Woods

What a shot off the tee with great distance and it is right down the middle of the fairway. Yet you still have about 200 yards to go until you’re on the green. You reach in your bag and see your long irons along with your fairway woods. However, you feel that fear coming over you because you just don’t know how to hit fairway woods. So you grab for the iron again and it never occurs to you that you could improve your game by using those fairway woods. So enough already- it is time to learn. Learning how to hit fairway woods is not difficult once you know their features.

 

When Is an Iron Not a Wood?

 

1.           A fairway wood is definitely not like swinging a long iron. One thing is a long iron swing will kick-up a divot from the course from the follow through whereas a fairway wood swing should not. When used cleanly, a fairway wood should hit the ball cleanly without any telltale signs of a divot. The loft of this club will do the work for you for getting the ball up in the air.

 

2. When you use the fairway wood you address the ball with your feet lined up with the target. Place the ball so that it is lined up with the left foot for right-handed golfers. For left-handed golfers it would be the opposite. Your knees should be flexed and your arms extended.

 

3.           When using fairway woods, keep your forearm as straight as possible while swinging. Your hips do the turning to provide power on the backswing. Do not slide your hips. Of course, keep your head down and your eyes on the ball.

 

4. Do not try hitting the ball too hard when using the fairway woods. Doing this can cause erratic out of control shots.

 

5.           Don’t use the fairway woods when trying to make a shot from the woods or a place off the fairway. Use your irons when you are in these situations.

 

So What Club Do I Use?

 

The only way to distinguish which club is better, the long irons or the fairway woods, is to try them both out during practice. Take them to a driving range and use each club and then mark down the distance you are getting with each drive. Hit the ball cleanly when using the fairway woods. You can be certain that your game will definitely improve once you master how to hit the fairway woods.

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