Full Swing · Mental Model

Let your setup launch the 3-wood, don't help it up

The speaker explains that your setup, not your swing, hits the ball up for you: the ball position is forward, off the left shoulder and ahead of the top of your pendulum, so the club naturally levels out and swings up a little. A wider stance also makes the bottom of the swing more U-shaped than V-shaped, which it would be with a narrow stance. With two things in the setup already hitting up on the ball naturally, he says the last thing you want to do is try to help it up.