Want to fry your forests on the good road? These simple adjustments increased my confidence and contact in these important marking shots.
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Throughout my years to play golf, it was always a club that never won enough of a permanent place in the rotation – mine FOREST. Even when my game was at its best, they rarely did that sessions past the round because I couldn’t trust them when counting.
I would often release the par-5s accessible because I couldn’t bring myself to go to green. If I were to pull my road wood, it was usually executed at a pace that lacked any real conviction – and often led to a thin or top kick that crumbled down the road as I went back to my bag, hanging out of my head.
The worst part was not lost shocks or lost opportunities, it was realized that these clubs would never be my strong costume – or so I thought.
I knew that the Fairway Woods could be a weapon on the course and that these clubs could actually create confidence if I understood how to use them. So I made it a point to work on them this offseason and found that it didn’t take much to rebuild that belief – I just had to understand some important keys.
Here are the two things that helped me feel confident about my road forests – and how can you start blushing yours too.
1. Check your ball position – it can be far ahead
When I started working in my forests at Fairway, I noticed that my ball position had really moved very much forward over time. I didn’t even realize how influence it could have on my shooting until I moved the ball back to a ball, a half ball, in front of my stay.
After fixing my ball position, I noticed an immediate improvement with my contact. Instead of grabbing the ball below my face, now I was making strong contact, in the center of the face. That’s because the low point of my swinging was now happening in the ball, instead, or behind the ball.
2. Hit in the ball, don’t be afraid to get some ground
Like many players players, I was always under the impression that these clubs had to eradicate the land. So I would try to keep my head parallel to the ground as I went, but the harder I tried to delete these perfectly, the worse my contact seemed.
That because I was almost trying to swing top On the ball or hold an angle of neutral attack, perhaps even a little positive. After realizing that I had to hit the ball with these clubs and get a small divin, I started blushing my right forests.
