Golf Clubs: Three Woods

Video Transcript

"Okay, we're going to see how we can fade the three wood. Now the three wood, because it is longer and it's got a pretty well amount of waft (it's about a fifteen degree wafted club) most people would say "well I slice that club anyway." Well that might be true, but a slice is very unpredictable. So we're going to teach you here how to practice to fade the ball, which is a controlled slice. Because really the key to this game is you want to be able to say: "okay there's a target; I can hit it with a slice; I can hit with a hook; I can hit it straight." So all a fade is is a controlled slice. So if you naturally slice the ball, this will be good practice to help you fix your slice, and then to take that slice and be able to use it in a controlled manner. So if this club represents the line to the target, then I would line up like this to hit the ball straight. To fade the ball, I'm going to open my stance up a little bit. And then I might open the club face a little bit. I might move the ball up, and my stance just a little bit. But see, there's no perfect shot. This is why, when you read about the pros practicing five hundred to a thousand balls a day they are working on virtually ever angle of this shot. Because every time they get out on the course, it's going to be slightly different. So I'm opening my stance. I'm aiming to the left a little bit. And I'm opening the club face slightly. And this way I just take a normal swing, and it produces a fade. So the fade is what you want to have. On this particular shot it's giving me safety. I've lost a little bit of distance fading it, but its well worth the precision that you gain from being able to execute this shot well."