Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Make 1 Change And Start CRUSHING Your 3 Wood"

In today's lesson...

You'll discover the big misconception about how you're supposed to hit your 3 wood.

Once you make this one simple change...

...it will transform the way you hit it forever!

You'll never fear pulling the 3 wood out of the bag again!

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:55

Video Transcription:

This video is going to change your three words forever. You see, most players have never been shown the right way to hit their three one. And what the result is, is a very low shot, doesn't get up in the air, doesn't go very far. And even if it does hit the green, it's just kind of rolling around. It doesn't really stop where you want to stop.

So here's it. We're going to take some of this foot spray powder. This is called Dr. Scholl's odor X with sweat max technology. And the reason I mention this is because this one gets a really nice white powder on there. So. Exactly where you hit and you can buy a special powder that marks up the club face, it's like 15 bucks a can and it's no better than that.

So just get the foot spray powder with the sweat max technology and it shows up really, really white. Now, what's happening here is we think that we need to get this ball up in the air. We get our weight on the inside of our right foot. We feel like we're going to hit up. We've all been told to kind of sweep the ball off the ground.

We've been told to kind of get behind it for power. And what's happening there is we're actually hitting almost hitting the ground behind the golf ball. Our weight feels like it's on the inside of this right foot. And then from there, our club is going up into the golf ball and we hit it thin. So when I do this, I'm going to feel that same thing head well behind the golf ball, my weight on the inside of my right foot, an impact.

And I'm going to feel like I get I'm trying to get this ball up in the air. Let's go and try it out. That was a good example of it. Thin shot. So I swung. I try to swing a little bit slower, more of an average three wood swing speed. My club went 84 miles an hour, only carried at 147.

And if you look at my launch angle, it was 7.7. So a very low launch angle. Now, if you look at this divot have this mark on the club, very low on the face. So you can see only half the ball roughly was on the face. And that's because I was trying to hit up into it in my club, was moving up and hit the bottom of the club when I make contact.

Now what I want to do different here, I don't want that weight on the inside of my right foot. I want to feel like as I start down, I get the weight on the middle of my left foot and then from there I take a divot. So from here, listen to the sound that the club makes when I try to hit up on it, but I'm not hitting the ground at all.

Listen to the sound it makes when I get my weight left and I try to actually hit down and get a divot here. That's what I wanted to sound like when we're hitting a 3-wood. If I was outside on grass, that would have taken a pretty good sized divot. Now, here's the reason it goes higher. Most people don't realize just how different.

A three. What is the top half of your three? Wood has a lot of loft, so if normally your 3-wood has 15 degrees loft is what it says on the sole. If you hit how on the face, it's more like 18, 19, 20 degrees loft. If you hit low on the face like we did there, it's more like ten or 12 degrees of loft.

So the face is actually rolled to make the shots better and it helps you. But I need to get on the top half of the face if I want to hit it hard. So I'm going to try to see if I can swing around 85 miles an hour again. So not that fast, but let's see what happens to the carry distance once I get my weight left, take a divot and actually hit a little higher on the club face.

We'll see. It's going to go a lot higher ball flight, too. Let's give it a whirl. Let's see, Armstrong, I swung a little too hard, so I cheated there a little bit too much of a normal swing. We'll see. The launch angle went up a little bit. The carry distance one way up went all the way up to 210.

And you can see here, even though I hit it slightly off the hill, this is exactly where you want to hit it on the face. A little above the center of gravity. Most players, when I look at the 3-wood, they don't have one mark there. Everything is low on the face and you never get the great shots.

Let's go ahead and give one. Let's go all out on one here. All right. So let's give it a whirl here. All right. So let's actually before I do that, let me spray on a new coat here and I'll have my video guy go ahead and click the button to get a new fresh screen on there. And let's see if we can rip one as far as we can here.

So now when I make a full swing, you know how on the face and let's see if we can give it a a real rip. Here, we go I saw power fade a little more open than I like. I cut that one slightly on the toe, so I'll consider that to be a pretty big miss. It so went off the toe that caused it to go a little bit more.

Right. We can see the carry distance was 240, 260 total and I'm starting to get that higher on the face. So it's actually a pretty big miss it. So that shows you that if you take a divot, even your bad shots are still going to get up in the air and go a little bit. If I were to miss it at that much and half of all on the bottom of the club like I did on my first one, the ball would have gone absolutely nowhere.

I was just going to give it one more rip. So if we can get one nice and solid, there we go. Right on the sweet spot there. Then straight 258 carry, 280 total distance. And again, actually, I was a little bit on the hill there. You can see how that one has still higher on the face.

These are all good top half of the club. You're golden, you're going to hit it a mile. Bottom half of the club. It doesn't matter if you hit it right in the center of the club. It's just not going to go anywhere. It's going to be low. It's just not going to be a good shot. So make sure you get the weight left.

Hit down on it. Take it. Did it like you would with an iron. Any club that you're hitting off the ground whether it's 3-wood the sandwich I want to be hitting down on all of them taking slight divots with all those the only reason you get a bigger divot with a sandwich is because it has an angle of the face and it just cuts up more of a divot.

You're almost coming down pretty close to the same angle. You're only hitting down on a sandwich or a pitching wedge very slightly more, which creates a little slight, slightly bigger divot there to now there's actually one thing that a lot of players get wrong when they're trying to get this weight shift and hit down on it. So if I'm looking at this again, the wrong way to do this would be to hit down by going like that.

The right way to do this would be to hit down by going like this. So when I measure tour players, every single one of them had their body tilted away from the target contact. And most people mistake that if my body is tilted away, I must be hitting up on it. What we actually want to do is have our body tilted away.

I get my weight shift to the left and I hit down with my 3-woods, my irons, everything. So your body's always going to be tilted away. That one piece can completely change your game. And most people never realize that because they they've never straighten that out in their mind. They think, if I'm going to hit down, I must be over here like that.

Well, I can walk you through step by step, the right way to do it. Just like every great player that's ever played the game, every one of them is going to be behind the golf ball. Even when they're hitting down with three wood irons, wedges, you name it, it's going to be very, very similar. So let me walk you through exactly how to do that in a straight line or the stable fluid spine, step by step.

All you need to do if you remember the website, go to the instruction tab, go to the top speed golf system, go to the stable fluid spine. Start on level one. I'm going to walk you through exactly how to get this spine angle on just the right angle. Then on level two, you're going to make it a lot more natural.

You're going to not have to think about it as much. And by the end of level three, it's going to be completely ingrained. You just step up, hit a golf ball, and your spine is magically in a perfect position. You're hitting it just like the technique of the greatest players of all time. So it's about getting through those levels.

It makes it completely natural for you, and it all starts by just doing a single video today. So go to level one, watch one video from there, complete the drills from it, and I guarantee you you're going to get hooked. Best of luck and I'll see you in the stable fluid spine.