We stock a range of fairway woods for brands including Callaway, TaylorMade, Cobra Golf & Titleist as well as a variety of left handed golf clubs.
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Fairway Woods
American Golf provides golfers with a full collection of fairway woods to guarantee players the most distance away from the tee-box. Fairway woods are designed similarly to the look of the driver, these come with additional loft, a smaller sized head and a shallower face. Fairway woods therefore provide a golfer with the best possible chance of cleanly striking the ball from longer distances off the floor and on the fairway. Our impressive lineup includes a wide selection of fairway woods to choose from across the majority of leading golf brands including TaylorMade, Wilson Staff, Cobra Golf, Ping, Benross, Honma, Callaway Golf, Titleist, Tour Edge, Fazer, MacGregor, Rife and Wilson Deep Red.
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Custom Fit
American Golf proudly offers the opportunity for online and in-store custom fitting at no extra cost. Everyone is different, that is why we recommend getting your new fairway wood fine-tuned to meet your exact specifications so that you receive the maximum possible benefits. Most of the top end fairway woods are all available with the option of being custom built to guarantee you have the correctly suited loft, shaft flex, shaft type, clubhead, adjustable setting and grip. With numerous combinations of the latter available, our renowned fitting process always delivers for identifying a fairway wood which ticks all the boxes for providing you with the desired distance, forgiveness, accuracy and consistency.
Lofts
Within our fairway wood fitting we will begin by assessing what loft and how many fairway woods a golfer desires to perfectly fit the gap in their set. The majority of golfers require their lowest fairway wood to possess 15 degrees of loft which acts as a 3 wood. This serves as the longest club in a golfer’s bag aside from the driver which isn’t advised to be used outside of the tee box. There sometimes is also a less popular 2 wood version available in select models, this acts as a deeper faced mini driver set at between 13 and 14 degrees. This is normally only found in either the bag of an elite player or in the case where a golfer still hits their 3 wood extremely high. Depending on the brand, fairway woods are available in different lofts such as 4 wood (17 degrees), 5 wood (19 degrees), 7 wood (22 degrees), 9 wood (25 degrees). Similar to the hybrid principle, the amount of fairway woods a golfer requires is completely up to the player’s preference. A 3 wood is normally a necessity and then a 5 wood can be the potential replacement for a 3 hybrid/iron. Following the same protocol, a 4 wood therefore acts as a replacement for a 2 hybrid/iron, a 7 wood replaces a 4 hybrid/iron and a 9 wood makes a 5 hybrid/iron redundant. Regardless of how many fairway woods a golfer desires to include, these extremely powerful clubs certainly enable a golfer to maximise the most possible distance at the lower end of the bag. During our favourable custom-fitting process, our experts will provide the most suitable loft option for you along with the correct head type to give you the perfectly suited trajectory that your longer game requires.
Flex Options
After the correct fairway wood or set of fairway woods has been established, we will then move on to measure your clubhead speed to assess which flex option best suits you. Each fairway wood includes a mixture of both standard and custom shaft options situated across various different flex options such as Extra Stiff, Stiff, Regular, Soft Regular, Lady Flex and Junior Flex. The most suitable flex option is dependent on a golfer’s clubhead speed, the two should correspond with each other in order to match the club’s ability to bend parallel to the speed of the golfer’s swing. This allows the golfer to feel in complete control of the clubhead’s path and thus prompting a more confident delivery towards impact. Choosing the wrong flex would hinder a golfer’s clubhead speed and so forth their distance, accuracy and consistency with the fairway wood. Ultimately it is therefore definitely worth seeking advice from our expertly trained custom fitting team.
Shaft Type
Having been advised on the best suitable shaft flex, our fitters would move onto finding the best type of shaft within the chosen flex in order to choose the most appropriately weighted option. Within a shaft flex category, there are differently weighted shafts to offer more precision for matching a player's swing speed. Fairway wood shafts can range from anything between 40g to 80g. Differently weighted shafts situated across all flexes help either lower or increase spin rates off the face of the club. Across the different weights, depending on the model of fairway wood there are various options of same flex and weighted shaft options to choose from. This is all based on preference and sometimes trial and error to see which shaft fits the best.
Clubhead
Having decided on the perfect shaft option, our fitters would move onto finding the best head option to provide the player with the most suitable benefit. Each model comes in a variety of different head formats to cater for all different golfing setups. Different head sizes and styles dictate the fairway wood’s forgiveness, distance and spin rate factor. Certain heads also provide added assistance for counteracting those dreaded slice shots, as these come fixed in an offset position to help promote a straighter flighting tee shot. Our expert advice would choose the most beneficial head style to suit you depending on your trajectory and direction of your ball flight. Once the correct head style has been identified our team would then move onto locating the best loft options.
Adjustability
The modernized fairway wood provides golfers with greater options for altering the loft, lie and weight position to best suit the golfer. Changing the loft can be tailored to an individual to help provide the required higher/lower trajectory in order to deliver the most penetrating ball flight possible. The lie angle can be adjusted to help counteract those unintentional fade/draw shots which ultimately result in a lost ball. Once the perfect setting has been found there is no need to change unless further down the line, should your preference or swing change then this can be easily adjusted.
Grips
Once we have completed all of the above, we will then run you through our selection of grip styles and sizes. By measuring your hand size, we will then point you in the best possible direction for selecting a grip which style and size best suits your hand size in order to provide you with the most comfort and control when gripping each club. American Golf’s well liked custom fitting process provides golfers with the option of guaranteeing their new fairway woods to be perfectly made to measure for them and at no extra cost. A fully custom fitted set of fairway woods therefore prepares a player in the best possible way by providing them with a collection of exciting pieces of equipment ready to maximise distance, forgiveness, accuracy and consistency from far afield off the floor.
Fairway Woods Frequently Asked Questions
What are fairway woods used for?
Fairway woods are a very forgiving golf club that allow the player to hit the ball confidently with power and at a high swing speed. Similar to the golf driver many golfers opt for fairway woods to tee off because of their ability to send the ball over long distances. They’re also used to cover distances over the fairways, hence the name, or to extract the ball from the rough.
What is the best Fairway Wood 2023?
Fairway woods are a must-have for any players bag but which is the best fairway wood? all the big brands have released something new this year such as the Stealth 2, G430, the TSR and more. check out our blog on which is the best fairway wood of 2023.
How to hit a fairway wood?
If you’re using your fairway wood to tee off, then naturally you need this game-opening swing to be a good one, so we’re going to impart our best advice for how to hit a fairway wood. You want to be hitting down on the golf ball, using the natural loft privy to fairway woods. For this, you’ll need to position the ball between your driver position and mid-iron position. Square your shoulders so even though you’re hitting down on the ball, you can still strike the ball at a flatter angle. This means your downswing won’t be too steep. Keep your swing confident and fluid, powerful but controlled. When hitting down on the ball, you might make a shallow divot. This isn’t a bad thing, however, as a shallow divot tells the player that you completed a downward swing but you still connected with the ball at a flat angle. This means your fairway wood can be used to tee off, combining distance and power, or to use its loft to free you from the rough.
Which fairway wood should I buy?
The best fairway woods are fitted to the player. For players who are just starting out on their golf journey, then a 3-wood fairway makes for an extremely forgiving club to tee off with because of its extra loft. For approach shots on the green, then the best fairway woods here would be between a 3-wood and a 5-wood. For our more seasoned golfers though, and for those who are avid or on an elite level, you might be using this club away from the fairway. In this case, a club with a shallower head will help keep a tighter line on your shot so you don’t need to sacrifice control. Players who don’t necessarily need the forgiveness but are instead playing a more detail-orientated game would benefit from these woods. Because choosing the best fairway woods is an entirely personal experience, we would always recommend finding your nearest American Golf using our store locator so a member of our team can fit you for the perfect clubs.
How do you get rid of a slice?
No one enjoys it when we slice the ball and its even worse when you don't know how to fix it. The problem is knowing what you are doing wrong, it could be your stance, your grip or even your equipment but if you want to understand a bit more have a read of our how to fix a slice blog