- Well, that's a 5-wood for me.
This is a par 5 hole here at the beautiful Mediterra.
I'm Adam Bazalgette founder of Scratch Golf Academy dot-com
Today we wanna to take a look at how
to stop topping your fairway woods.
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So let's have a look at the subject.
Let's see if we can find out
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So how do you stop topping the ball with your fairway woods?
There's a lot more to it than just one tip
but here's what I would recommend to you almost invariably.
I maybe wouldn't say that
I would say most of the time
people top their fairway woods
because either their arms are bending towards
their body at impact
or even if that's not happening
the club is past vertical
and is swinging upward away from the ground,
the circle has started up by the time they get to impact
it's much much less common
that someone makes a basically good swing
and arbitrarily just lifts their head or lifts their body.
So bear in mind it's more likely
either the arc isn't going down enough as you hit the ball
or the radius of the swing arc is narrowing.
What are the things that would cause that?
Hey these are just general swing habits for sure.
But they'll show up a lot on a fairway wood
because a fairway wood give or take the loft
is the longest shafted least lofted club you'll hit.
that doesn't have a tee under it
a driver obviously is longer and less lofted
but it has a tee under it.
So even if you do that a bit
you can still more or less hit the ball solidly.
So these clubs are very hard to hit
if you have a steep angle of attack.
Steep would be more in front of my face here
less from the side of my body on the angle of the shaft.
Yeah there's a lot more video content
on this at the website.
But if you're steep, what's gonna to happen is
if you have a perfect impact from there
you gonna plow too much of a hole in the ground doing that.
It might work a little bit with a pitching wedge
or a 9-iron you can just kind
of dig a deep divot out and hit a solid shot.
But you're a subconscious brain
is gonna to tend to overrule that
and try to bailout and create some space through the ball.
I promise you you will not hit deep divot off
to deep divots.
So steepness is often an underlying cause
for whitey arms bend and pull up through the ball.
In terms of the mention the other reason
the cubs swinging up too early
starting its ascension which of course
making it the top of the ball
to me the leading cause of that
and there's a lot of possibilities.
But this is the leading cause
is people accelerate the club too quickly
trying to hit it too hard from the top
the club moves before the body
and I promise you when that club accelerates at high speed
it's gonna pull you this way.
It's gonna pull you back
your circles gonna start up.
So you want a golf swing
where their arms and clubs are more passive.
And you start to make your move
before there's any kind of a first downswing movement
and then you're on your left side as you go through.
So how do you get those things again?
Those are fairly broad brush things.
They're significant things.
We've got a lot of content on that on our website
but I would suggest you practice it
without a ball on a small scale.
So practice making some swings
where you can move your weight left
and just skid the club off the ground
a little bit like that.
You can tell I'm just nicking or brushing the ground.
And practice making some little swings from this angle
where the clubs coming more from behind your hip
and sliding and brushing the ground there.
And it's only when you've practiced that and done that
and experienced a little bit of success on a small scale.
That you then bring a ball in hit some soft ones.
And again if you're coming in
with your weight enough to the left
but still shallow enough
you can afford to let your arms
straighten out in the club swing freely
and all you'll do is brush.
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