Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher

Hi I'm Tom Stickney Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor and today were going to talk about your fairway woods. You know a lot of times people have trouble they tend to pop their woods or they can get beat down their woods seem to have some trouble. We want to make sure that you understand that you can be a sweeper where you just kind of brush the ground or you could be more of a pincher where you kind of go down and through it remember woods are very very personal.

OK If I have a propensity to top the golf ball or missed a golf ball or sweep too much up on it then it would be OK for me to chop down on the wood a little bit and you see I just kind of nip the ground just a little bit it was fine here you know a little goes a long way. If I tend beat down the wood just a little bit and I tend to drive in the ground or hit low darters it's OK to be more sweeping. Both will work just fine so remember use the sweep versus the pinch on the woods to make up for tendencies that you have that give you trouble you can play with fairway woods in hybrids to be the sweeper or be the pincher just don't take it to the extreme.