What to do if you can’t hit a fairway wood?

Trying to make strides towards your target with a fairway wood can be fraught with toil and trouble. Tops here, slices there and duffs everywhere.

There’s not a lot of loft in a fairway wood and one of the mistakes we can all make is being too steep in the angle of attack.

In this lesson, PGA Professional Steve Johnston offers a simple remedy. The golfer needs to create a lot of width in the swing plain which shallows that angle of attack and ensures the club – which has a flat sole and is designed for picking the ball up off the surface – comes closer to the ground earlier and stays there.

Follow this drill and you’ll soon be unleashing your fairway woods with confidence.