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How to Hit Fairway Woods and Achieve Maximum Distance
Using your fairway woods will give you maximum distance down the fairway. When you are new to the game, fairway woods can be harder to control than irons, but you should become skilled at how to use them as soon as possible. The expertise to hit fairway woods will help you lower your scores as you will be able to hit longer distances. A great wood shot sets you up in the best possible way for the rest of the hole.
The most commonly used woods are the 1, 3 and 5. They are designed to advance your distance and power without any extra effort.
Even though the size and shape of the club head is really different from the irons, the extra distance is achieved through the longer length of the shafts.
The club head has further to travel because of the longer shaft. When you swing a wood with the same rhythm and tempo as an iron, the club head travels around the arc in the same time, but has to cover lots more distance, and this raises the speed. This increase in club head speed is what gives you the additional power to hit the ball longer distances. You will achieve faster club head speed without needing to speed up your swing. In fact for every full shot from driving to pitching your tempo should be the same.
The longer shaft of the fairway wood does lead to changes in your address including stance, posture and ball position.
First of all you stand further away from the ball than you would for an iron because of the longer shaft length. To help maintain your balance you will need a wider stance. You address the ball with your back more upright and the ball position is opposite the inside of your left heel. Take the club away slowly, keeping the club head low to the ground.
Your upper body should rotate freely as your left arm swings the club back. Your weight should have transferred from the central positon at address to the inside of the right foot by the time you are at the two-thirds point in your backswing.
Your shoulders should have rotated 90 degrees and your hips 45 degrees at the top of your backswing. Make sure you don't start the downswing before you have completed the backswing. A very small delay at the top of the backswing before you start the downswing helps.
Rotate your left hip to the left when you start the downswing. This pulls your arms and hands into an ideal striking position.
The club head approaches the ball at a shallower angle because your swing plane is flatter. The ball is struck at a later point in your swing and you sweep through. This is the reason for the ball being placed inside your left heel.
Allow your weight to move across to the outside of your left foot after impact. Allow the momentum of your swing to pull your right shoulder and your head to face the target. Your whole body should face the target. Most of your weight should be on your left foot and you should be balanced when you finish.
Practice at the driving range with your fairway woods and you will soon be gaining more distance down the fairway and your handicap will be dropping.
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What is the rhythm of the poem "Desert Places" by Robert Frost?
Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast
In a field I looked into going past,
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeds and stubble showing last.
The woods around it have it--it is theirs.
All animals are smothered in their lairs.
I am too absent-spirited to count;
The loneliness includes me unawares.
And lonely as it is that loneliness
Will be more lonely ere it will be less--
A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
With no expression, nothing to express.
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars--on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.
I need to know the foot (iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, spondaic, monosyllabic) and the meter (monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter).
Thankyou(:
Here, as in many other poems, Frost is writing in iambic pentameter, but taking quite a few liberties with the meter. If you read the second and third stanzas out loud, you'll hear the steady rhythm of five iambic beats per line:
da DUM / da DUM / da DUM / da DUM / da DUM
the WOODS / a ROUND / it HAVE / it IT / is THEIRS
all AN / i MALS / are SMOTH / er'd IN / their LAIRS
and so on.
In the first and last stanzas, the iambic pentameter is looser, but it's still there.
