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How can I hit better 3 woods from the fairway?

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Hitting woods from a fairway is one of the toughest things for a beginner to master. When you’re dealing with par 5’s or long par 4’s it can become vital to be able to hit these shots to be able to get a good score. Learning the basic fundamentals of how to hit woods from a fairway will help you in dealing with this shot and hopefully keep you from hitting bunkers or water and keep you safe on the fairways and greens so that you can be lining up birdie or eagle putts in the near future.             The first thing you need to do is make clean contact with the ball. When you are using a fairway wood you’re doing it because you have a lot of ground to cover to make it to the hole. This means that striking the ball cleanly is essential to be able to get the ball to where you want it to go. The keys to cleanly striking the ball are as follows. First you need to be contacting the ball on your upswing. With irons you’re generally driving down on the ball but with a wood you’re