Use the loft of wood to your advantage

Think about executing a fairway wood this way — if your practice swings on the range don’t sweep and touch the ground, you are practising topping it!

If you have a reasonably good posture and know you need to hit the ground, give some thought to a very specific method to get the club down to the ground.

When you make your backswing, your trail elbow should, and does, fold.

So, in order to get your club all the way back to the ground, this elbow needs to straighten down towards the ground, much like a throwing motion.

When this trail arm straightens, it helps create full extension in your arms.

You can practise this without the club.

Place a ball in your trail hand and bow forward into your golf posture.

From there, straighten the arm and throw the ball down to the ground so it hits the ground in line with the middle of your stance.

This straightening will train…