Stop Missing 3-Wood Fairways

Pick a target flag suitable for your wood club at the driving range.

Hit 36 shots with your wood club, focusing solely on your backswing.

Concentrate on at most two backswing thoughts or tasks to produce your desired ball flight.

Try to do your backswing as planned for each shot.

Count each shot as a success if the ball lands within 5 yards of the target.

Add up your successes and enter your score in the app, out of 36 attempts.

Pick one flag or target at a good distance for woods (hybrid, 5-wood, or 3-wood).

Put your ball on the tee as you usually do for woods shots.

Hit 36 shots with your woods, focusing solely on your downswing. Work on at most two downswing thoughts or tasks to influence the ball flight.

Switch between woods (hybrid, 5-wood, 3-wood) throughout the exercise.

Count a shot as a success if it lands and stops near the selected target.

Enter your number of successes in the app, out of 36 attempts.

Pick a flag on the range for woods shots.

Make a landing area near the flag with cones or buckets, about 5% of the distance to the target.

Split 36 shots into 3 groups of

For each group, try to land the ball in the landing area.

Use any woods club: hybrid, 5-wood, or 3-wood. You can change clubs.

After each shot, note if the ball landed in the landing area.

Finish all 36 shots, count the successful ones, and enter your score out of 36.