Loose Soil: Golf Fairway Woods

Video Transcript

"Okay, so we're in this conglomeration of twigs and decaying leaves and dust and dirt. It's a really bad lie. There's not too much you can do about it, you just have to try to do the best you can. So in this circumstance I'm using the three wood and you can also use a driver in this circumstance depending on the situation. So I need to hit the ball a reasonably long way and the good news about hitting a fairway wood is because it's kind of a smooth rounded bottom, when I hit it I'm not going to catch that much of the loose soil like you would with an iron. So an iron sometimes can be risky out of here because the iron itself will catch but with this smooth edge generally the club will skim through the impediment and the loose soil. So that's the good side. I don't have a great lie though so if I hit a bad shot with a powerful club like a three wood it can put me in even worse trouble. But sometimes you can also use the driver, you can choke down and just push the ball out of here such as this. So that puts me down the fairway pretty effortlessly but if I'm going to take a full swing. If I need to get that distance with a full swing I want to be super relaxed because I've got plenty of club so all I've got to do is just make good clean contact. Which I did. So this shot is not that hard with a fairway wood but there are some restrictions. You're not going to get that much spin out of it. So you want to just take your time and be relaxed when you have this shot. Take a nice easy swing and you should have some success with it."