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Before Hitting Your Woods Just DO THIS For 5 Seconds
Struggling to make consistent contact with your fairway woods and hybrids? You're not alone — and you're not doing anything drastically wrong. These are the longest clubs in your bag with the least amount of loft, so be easy on yourself. But there is something you can feel before every single shot that will transform how consistently you strike them.
Data from Shot Scope tells us that mid to high handicap golfers use fairway woods and hybrids 25% of the time. That's a quarter of every round. Improve your consistency with these clubs and the effect on your score is enormous. In this fairway wood lesson I want to show you exactly what I showed my students John and Tom this week — two simple things that control everything about how your hybrid and fairway wood strikes the ground, delivers loft and gets the ball flying high and long.
The first is about controlling the depth of your arc — how the club interacts with the ground rather than where it lands. Get this right and the topping, the fatting and the inconsistent contact start to disappear almost immediately. The second is the prop drill — something I've shared before on the channel but which Tom was getting slightly wrong, and I want to make sure you're doing it correctly because when it clicks it is genuinely a game changer for your fairway wood ball striking.
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What you'll learn in this fairway wood and hybrid lesson:
▶ Why fairway woods and hybrids are harder to hit — and why that's not your fault
▶ The three things you need to control for consistent fairway wood contact every time
▶ The shoulder feel that keeps your arc intact and stops you topping fairway woods
▶ The prop drill for fairway woods — and the common mistake that stops it working
▶ How to control where your club lands relative to the golf ball every time
▶ How to deliver loft consistently so your fairway woods fly high and go further
▶ Why this approach works for hybrids and irons too — not just fairway woods
⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00 — Why fairway woods and hybrids are so hard to hit consistently
1:02 — The three things that control your fairway wood contact
1:22 — Thing 1: Controlling the depth of your arc
2:28 — John's story: the most common depth of arc problem
3:18 — The shoulder feel that fixes your arc immediately
4:42 — How to practise this before every fairway wood shot
5:40 — Thing 2: Controlling where the club lands
6:44 — The prop drill for fairway woods — done correctly
8:40 — Tom's story: what most golfers get wrong with the prop drill
9:23 — The prop drill in action — high draw with a hybrid
11:03 — Putting both together for consistent fairway wood ball striking
This fairway wood lesson works for all levels — whether you're a beginner trying to understand why your hybrids and fairway woods feel so inconsistent, a mid-handicapper who tops or fats these clubs far too often, or someone who hits them well occasionally but can never repeat it. Given that you're reaching for these clubs on a quarter of every hole you play, improving your fairway wood contact is one of the fastest ways to lower your scores without changing anything else in your game. Two simple feels. Consistent contact. More greens in two.
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