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This concept video is discussing the three wood and the long iron swing.

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So I've had a number of questions about golfers who specifically struggle with the fairway

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woods or long iron, they'll usually say the three wood is the hardest club in the bag.

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I usually top it or chunk it.

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It's usually a contact problem.

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So there are two big things that I think are more of a requirement for the three wood than

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any other club in the bag.

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So number one is I think of all the clubs, the three wood does the best with powering

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it from the lower body.

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So if you're more of an upper body dominant swing, the three wood tends to cause problems,

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especially if you lack component number two.

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And component number two is the arm extension through the wall.

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I think if I had to boil it down to one trait that gives people the most fits with

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the three wood, it is if the arms either stay the same or even bend on the way through,

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it's almost impossible to have enough tilt to create a flat spot and sweep the ground.

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When the arms stay the same or when they bend, the shape of the swing has much more of

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this V shape, it has a very limited flat spot.

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The three wood is even harder than the driver because the driver being teed up, if you

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can time and train where your upper body is in space, then you can kind of get away with

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it as long as you're not swinging too hard and you're able to control the club face.

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But with the three wood, if your arms are bending on the way through, you're almost always

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going to struggle with more of a thin contact and a lot of top shots.

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So oftentimes I'll have people start with that drag through drill where we'll put the

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club on the ground near the right foot and then we'll turn our hips like we were using

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them in the full swing and then we'll work on straightening the arms through impact there.

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As a result, when I do that dynamically, now I get the club to slide along the ground.

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If you are used to more bending the arms or keeping the arms the same kind of like this,

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you'll see that that will tend to come off the ground too quickly.

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I would top that.

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So then you get stuck with in order to do this and make solid contact, you have to lunge

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your upper body on top.

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Well now with the loft of the three wood, I'm going to hit this really low.

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So then I start bending to try to add loft and now I get worse and worse into this topping

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pattern.

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So usually I find that the order that makes sense for most people who struggle with the

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three wood, the three wood and less are extended but related the long irons is first you

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work on getting the arms to extend, getting the arms to extend, you'll help eliminate the

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top shot but you might hit some big poles until you get the sequencing down.

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So first I work on the arm straightening and then secondly we're going to work on getting

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the hips more involved.

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When you put them together you can do some 9 to 3s tend to 2s and such where basically

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I'm going to feel hips and arm extension and in doing so hips and arms extension I get

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the club to slide along the ground.

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Now we'll do more of a 10 to 2 hips, arms extension, a little bit of a fade maybe didn't

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quite control the club face.

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Three woods are hard to do in the less than full swing but I also think that's part

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of the brilliance of them.

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If you get good at it then that one was pretty good.

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If you get good at doing 10 to 2s 9 to 3s with the three wood then it becomes a lot easier

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or more consistent when you add full swing.

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Now we'll get closer to full length swing.

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Get that for the down line.

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Okay so we're going to focus on using my lower body and then extending the arms on the

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way through.

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I know like that so feeling those arms really extend is key number one I think that's

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the most important factor for the longer clubs like the three wood and then secondly

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is leading with the lower body so that the arms can extend later.

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If you master those two keys you'll build a nice little flat spot and find success with

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your fairway wood and long iron.