Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How to Tee Off With a 3 Wood | 300 Yard Drives!"

If your 3-wood isn’t your most consistent club off the tee box…

…if you’re not hitting high, booming, straight shots with your 3-wood…

…then you’re probably making the 1 big mistake that turns the 3-wood from a super easy club to hit…

…and turns it into a pretty difficult club to hit.

Make this one change and you’ll see results immediately!

In today’s video, I’ll reveal what that 1 big mistake is, along with the easy fix…

…plus, I’ll show you a couple of other changes you can make…

…so that 3-wood is even easier to hit than ever before!

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:10

Video Transcription:

Clay Ballard: Now if you’re struggling hitting 3 wood off the tee, I’m going to make it really easy for you.

If you know a couple basic things, then you’re going to hit your 3 wood, it’s going to be your favorite club. Definitely the easiest club to hit off the tee, in my opinion, is the 3 wood.

Now there’s one thing that almost every single player does dead wrong when they’re hitting the 3 wood off the tee, they tee it up way too high.

So I’ll see a lot of times players will have this ball teed up where it’s above the crown of the club like that, almost like you would a driver. In a driver you hit up on it a little bit.

Now with the 3 wood, part of the consistency is coming from hitting down on it. I can be a little bit more consistent if I hit down.

So I’m going to tee it up pretty low, and I like to take even just a hair of a divot, or at least just brush the grass, even when I’m hitting it off the tee like this.

So I’ve got it teed up pretty low here. One thing that that helps with, is when I’m making contact on the face, I want the contact to be higher on the face to get that ball to launch high with low spin so it goes a long way.

If I hit it a little thin, 3 wood really just doesn’t go very far. So if you want it to be consistent with your 3 wood and you want it to get pretty good distance, nobody wants to give up 60-70 yards off the tee by hitting a 3 wood, you want it to go pretty far, you’ve got to hit it on the top half of the face.

So tee it fairly low. I’m going to hit down on it, take a very, very slight divot or at least brush the ground, so I’m going to have it a little farther back in my stance than I would with a driver.

I’m going to try to hit it on the top half of the face, that way I get this high knuckler of a 3 wood shot. There we go, really nice. I hit that high on the face, that just brushed the turf there.

I don’t mind even taking a little bit more than that and actually taking a slight divot when I’m hitting this shot. That one went a long way there, I hit that one about as good as I can hit a golf ball.

Now the second part of this and a lot of times what I see people do when they hit anything off the tee, is they get way too level. They start to stand up out of it, they throw their arms at the ball. It’s a real pain in the butt.

There’s a great way of thinking about this. You imagine my shoulders are at an angle here. Now you may have never realized this before, but any throwing action when you release your arm is an extension, roughly an extension, of your shoulders.

I’ve actually studied in high-speed a lot of baseball pitchers. I’ve done a lot of tennis work. It’s the same for every single throwing action. Golf is a throwing action.

I’m throwing this golf club at the golf ball. But my hand, my arm, is an extension of my shoulders whenever I’m throwing, whenever I release it. Could be here, could be there, but it’s pretty much in a straight line.

When you’re throwing a baseball, you say, “Well, Clay, that’s a side arm pitch, what about people that are throwing overhead?” Well, an overhead baseball pitch is just this.

When they release it, their shoulders are tilted, their arm is above their head, but it’s because their shoulders are tilted. If you leveled out the shoulders it would be here.

Tennis is the same way. You do your tennis serve, the shoulders get tilted down, you throw the racket up toward the tennis ball like this.

Golf is the exact same thing, except for instead of throwing up, you’re throwing down. So you imagine in the golf swing, I’m going to take my right arm, I’m going to tilt my shoulders, and I’m feeling like I’m throwing this golf club at the golf ball.

At the point of release, which would actually be a little past the golf ball, about 45° in front, the point of release, I’d want to see it like this. I’d want to see my shoulders and my right arm be releasing at that point out in front just like that.

This golf ball is just getting in the way. So if you feel like you stand up and throw, now all of a sudden my arms are doing something totally different than my shoulders. I’m not at the same angle, so I’m losing tons of speed.

Then also, I release it too early. Well, if I think of that release point out there, and I tilt my shoulders, now all of a sudden that’s that great position you see.

That right arm still slightly bent at contact, really good slight shaft lean, hitting down into this golf ball and then everything releases there. That’s my throw with the golf swing.

So whether you’re playing baseball, you’re doing tennis, you’re doing golf, doesn’t make any difference. It’s all the same thing. I just have to throw to release that out in front.

With that visual, let’s go ahead and hit another one. Ball a little back, not afraid to hit a divot here at all, and I’m going to throw this club out in front.

There we go, that one was absolutely smoked there. That was a really good tee shot for a 3 wood, because that took off fairly low. Again, I smacked up some turf, I took a divot here.

You can see my divot started right there at the beginning where that tee’s at, and I took a nice little chunk out of the ground.

That allowed it to hit high on the face, and that thing, again, went an absolute mile. That was a long tee shot there.

I have a name for this, this is what I actually call one of the five real fundamentals of the golf swing. If you do this correctly, golf’s pretty dag-gone easy.

If you don’t do this correctly, golf’s pretty dag-gone hard. You’re going to have a tough time being consistent. You’re going to have a tough time getting distance with your 3 wood or with any other club.

I call this the Straight Line Release. That means that this club is very first going to split my forearms when I’m out in front here. I’m releasing this club out in front.

If I stand up and throw, that club’s splitting my forearms before I get to the golf ball. Like I said, it’s going to be pretty dag-gone hard to play your best golf. It’s going to be pretty dag-gone hard just to play decent golf.

So I want you to do now, once you finish the drills in this video, head over to the Straight Line Release section. Go to the Top Speed Golf System, you’re going to click on the Instruction tab, Top Speed Golf System, then the Straight Line Release.

Work through level one and you’re going to get really comfortable with this concept. Work through level two and level three, that’s when it’s going to become automatic.

If you want to step out of the car and have your very first swing of the day be a great swing and be very consistent, that’s what you have to do. You have to work through the system to make that happen, to make it automatic.

So best of luck and I’ll see you in the Straight Line Release.