Trap the woods

Most golfers have problems with fairway wood shots. It makes sense since they are the longest clubs we swing without a tee.

Of course a good swing helps, but in any case, good or not, trapping the shots becomes the way to play. Trapping means hitting it similar to an iron and taking a little bite of turf. By moving the ball back in your stance a bit, just ahead of the mid point or bottom, you will make contact a little sooner in the swing, basically the bottom, bite a touch of turf, and hit a solid shot.

There's a famous golf shot which is attributable to trapping a wood: Gene Sarazen's famed double eagle 4 wood in the 1935 Masters, was such a shot. I am old enough, and was close enough geographically, to meet and play golf with The Squire when he was an old man. He described the famous double eagle shot: his drive was in the fairway, but in a divot hole, up toward the front. He took a 4 wood, strengthened the face and moved it back in his stance. He hit it just as he wanted, and such a shot would roll. It rolled on the green and into the cup!

It's worth the change, give it a try and hit better wood shots!