Driving With A 3 Wood

Learning how to swing a 3 wood creates a powerful weapon in your golf game.

Driving with a 3 wood.

Only available in a 13 degree loft it s clearly positioned as a backup driver 450. Driving with a 3 wood can save you strokes and may even end up further down the fairway than your driver. Using 3 wood instead of driver. The elliptical shape has minimal resistance and higher speeds without more effort.

On average a 3 wood hits 1 5 more fairways in regulation. In this case i can only assume your pro has observed you hitting your 3 wood and determined that you re launching it too low with too little spin most likely worse when struck off the ground. Many golfers will use 3 woods instead of their drivers. If you re not shooting in the 70s and looking for a new 3 wood check out our breakdown of the best fairway woods for high handicappers.

The slower swingers however dropped only 14 35 yards 219 3 to 204 95. If you re an average swinger of 80 90mph then you d also gain more from a 16 or 17 3 wood. But if you use your 3 wood only on the tee shot the deep face 3 wood might be easier to hit. The faster swingers lost 27 6 yards 260 05 yards with the driver to 232 45 yards with the 3 wood.

In that case don t worry about switching it to shallow face 3 wood. At about 220cc the rapture is nearly a third larger than the company s current largest 3 wood the g25. The 3 wood is one of the most important clubs in a golfer s bag. A very confident golfer may even try to use it from the light rough.

Pro golfer tiger woods notes that his swing with a 3 wood isn t as long or as fast as his swing with the driver but is a longer swing than he uses with his irons. You ll be able to get it. Users report the epic is superior off the deck. Also 3 wood with a shallow face will be easier to hit the ball high than a deep face 3 wood.

But considering the distance difference between driver and 3 wood see above there is not much advantage to hitting a 3 wood from the tee unless there is a hazard in range with your driver. Best driving 3 wood. It is quite versatile as it can be used off the tee and from the fairway. As a slower swinger you could hit the 16 or 17 degree 3 wood around 180 200 yards.

Substantial on tight drives both solid and forgiving. It s ok to take a little divot.