Should you be carrying a 3 wood?

The 3 wood. Is it a back up driver? Is it a true fairway wood? Should it even be in your bag these days?  Find out here.

 

There’s a club that lots of people struggle with.  Even more than the driver, and that’s the 3 wood.

 

Not as a backup driver, but as a full function club which you can hit from the tee box tee-ed up, or off the deck.

 

I don’t know if this is a case of golfers trying to console themselves, but many golfers have told me that with a 3 wood they “want to keep the ball down”.

 

That is a huge misconception, because most low handicappers and tour pros hit woods when they want to get some height in their shot.

 

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So, should you have a 3 wood in your bag?

 

My view is that you need a swing speed of 70-75 MPH to effectively use a 3 wood off the deck.

 

Any less than that, and you won’t have enough club head speed to launch effectively.

 

If you’re based in Singapore, come in and we can check your club head speed for you.  But if you’re not, a rough and ready way to find out if you’ve got enough club head speed for the 3 wood is if you’re hitting the 3 wood less than 150m off the deck, you probably don’t.

 

That doesn’t mean that you can’t have a longer fairway wood, it just means we need to move you to more loft.

 

Our customers have benefitted most from going from a 3 wood, to a 4 wood or 5 wood.

 

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What if you hit your 3 wood longer than 150m off the deck but still struggle with it?

 

That’s hardly surprising because the 3 wood off the deck actually launches lower than a driver off the tee.

 

So even if you’ve got a swing speed higher than 75 MPH, launch angle plays a big part.

 

One of our customers has a swing speed of just over 100MPH and used his 3 wood only as a backup driver.

 

His problem was that his launch angle was really low.

 

To help him with that, we needed to understand why he was launching it so low. 

 

Was it angle of attack, dynamic loft at impact, kick point of his shaft… and the list goes on.

 

Sadly, there’s no way to “rule of thumb” that.  If you want an actual reason, the only way is to come in and get measured.

 

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How we will fix for 3 wood challenges

 

All these variables are a good thing, because it means there’s potentially a lot we can do to help you.

 

Once we identify the reason for a low launch, we can do a number of different things:

 

  1. We could give you a lower kick point shaft to help you get the ball higher.
  2. We could put you on a lighter shaft that will help you actually increase your swing speed.
  3. We could put you on a softer shaft that will help you get the ball higher and longer without increasing your swing speed.
  4. We could put you on less torque so that you can confidently load the shaft more.
  5. We could lower the CG on the head.
  6. Get a higher loft head.
  7. We could let you try a twist face head so that you dare to open the face up.
  8. We can mix and match any of these!

 

And there are even more possibilities.

 

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The thing is we need to know why you’re launching it low.

 

Fix 4 could be for the lower handicapper with a high swing speed who just isn’t confident in loading the club because of the way it feels on the downswing.

 

Whereas fix 2 is more likely for the golfer with insufficient swing speed.

 

Whatever your reason for struggling with a 3 wood, don’t go and buy another 3 wood before you get measured.  You’re literally shooting in the dark, hoping to get the right 3 wood for you.

 

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Save your money and come and get fitted for one.  Then leave with a fairway wood that you know will work for you.

 

Don’t worry, we will never try to sell you something that doesn’t work for you. 

 

Your game improving is what drives us.

 

We have a 12 month, 3 session, distance & direction guarantee, so trying to sell you something that doesn’t work will only backfire on us!

 

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