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Are you having trouble hitting your three wood off the fairway? This is Sean McTernan
and you're watching another episode of My Golf Tutor, the number one place on the internet
for you to play your best golf now. Welcome back, todays question comes from Claud and
Claud wrote to us and asked, "hi Sean, I have been having a lot of trouble hitting my three
wood, especially off the fairway. Do you have any tips or suggestions that will help me
become more consistent?" Claud, thanks very much for your question. I think a big part
of becoming a good consistent three wood player off the fairway is how you setup to the golf
ball. I have two alignment rods, this one is going to be down my target line, this second
one is going to be perpendicular to the alignment rode on the ground and opposite of the golf
ball. We are doing this because we want to use this to practice our ball position and
keep it consistent every time we hit a three wood off the fairway. So, if I had a driver
I would basically have my left foot touching this alignment rod and I would simply step
in to address the ball. If I was using a seven iron, I would have my rod in the middle of
my stance and the rod would be equal distance from each foot. With this three wood we are
going to setup and have your left heal an inch from the alignment rod. We are going
to have our weight fifty fifty. Because the ball is up in our stance, there is going to
be a slight little tilt in our spine. I certainly don't want to see you set up with it to straight.
Because this will promote a really step angle of attack in a lot of cases I have seen. Another
thing I want you to take a look at is just to make sure you are allowing the loft of
the club to get the ball into the air. I don't want to see you hanging back and trying to
help the ball up. Because when we hang back this leads to a lot of inconsistency and you
won't get that quality strike you are looking for. Like I said, weight fifty fifty and we
are going setup with a slight tilt in our spin. We do this because it is going to help
us get a little shallower of an attack angle. There for we will be able to catch the ball
as the club is leveling out. Those are some of things I want you to go to work on to help
improve your consistency with this fairway wood. If you or anyone else has a question
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