Excerpts from Tommy's Honor

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How to Flush Your Fairway Woods

Contrary to my experience

which is that golf tips in magazines 

do more to hurt my game than help it

i found this 2 page illustration 

in the most recent Golf Magazine

"How to Flush Your Fairway Woods"

timely

and particularly pertinent to my own issues

my fairway woods had abandoned me 

gradually over the last two years

but they had become inconsistent further back than that, even

to the degree that even my driver lost its power & trajectory . . . 

the driver came back slowly, 

but the fairway woods still seemed mysterious 

not only off the deck, but off a tee, too . . . 

so i finally in desperation went to the range to work it out

Tuesday, hit a large bucket, 

maybe 1-in-20 was not shameful

even so i had not given up

had settled in for the long-haul 

re-discovering the fairway wood

(one is just not going to reach many par 5s in 2 without a fairway wood)

when the title of the article caught my eye

as i was scanning the issue

and all three points resonated with me,

but the idea of moving the ball up in my stance 

especially . . . 

in my baseball stance, 

with my baseball grip

and my baseball swing

i tend to address the ball more centrally than most

and i guess it had gotten toooo central . . .

as soon as i moved back of the ball

i started hammerin' 7-woods over the 200 yd marker at the range . . . 

i started playing imaginary par 5s at ahwatukee,

playing driver-3w, driver-5w, driver-7w

and couldn't hit a ball wrong

until i went all-the-way-gorilla 

and brought the pull hook back into play  . . . 

easy fix for that, just don't swing so hard . . . 8^) . . .

looking forward now to next round

love to play some long course where i can go for some par 5s, hit those fairway woods.