I’m looking to get a bit more launch and less fade/slice on my adjustable 3W. It looks like setting 6 or 8 might help with that, but being new to the adjustable woods, I’m looking for some advice.
Thanks!
Shrek74 Answered question March 29, 2025
I’m looking to get a bit more launch and less fade/slice on my adjustable 3W. It looks like setting 6 or 8 might help with that, but being new to the adjustable woods, I’m looking for some advice.
Thanks!
MGE93,
I’m not going to get as technical as Britt, as he knows way more than I do. But I’ll share my experience with adjusting woods and how I believe you might want to start and proceed.
There are 2 ways to help fight a fade/slice by adjusting the club and without actually adjusting your swing – Lie Angle, Face Angle. As Britt mentioned, closing the face down (Face Angle) will add that amount of effective loft to the stated loft and it will help with a slightly more left starting line, all other things being equal/same. Both things that will help what you want. Increasing the Lie Angle will also assist with creating a slightly left starting line. The more upright a club is from standard, the more the face points left at address even if you can’t see it.
So if you combine the two, closing the face + making the lie more upright, you should start seeing less fade/slice outcomes. It might not be huge 50 yard changes, but it’s a great place to start.
I’d start with setting 1, which is your neutral setting. Make observations of what the standard setting flight is and looks like. Then jump to setting 5 (+1* Upright, 0.5* Open) and go from there. The open face might be going against what you’re wanting, but that full degree upright should start showing you some adjustment in left/right flight. Plus, that face angle is the same as the neutral starting point. So the loft is all you should see different than setting 1. Then just work your way down to 7 which is both a loft adjustment and 0.5* more closed than Neutral, which is also a good thing. You can try 8, although with a slightly open face angle and a half degree less lie might be too much away from what you’re trying to achieve.
Good luck!
It’s one of those things where you’re just going to have to experiment with the settings. 6 or 8 could be a good place to start. It is difficult to give direction without seeing you actually hit shots and analyze the ball flight data. Generally speaking, to reduce the fade slice you would want to start with a more closed face. That may seem counter to also wanting to have a higher launch, but it’s actually not. We always assume a square face at impact, so if the face angle setting is .5 deg. closed, at impact the effective loft at impact is actually .5 degree higher than the standard loft. Easier to explain in drivers, so a 10 degree driver with a .5 degree closed face angle will have an effective loft of 10.5 deg. Effective loft being loft at impact assuming a square face to the target at impact.
I know it’s confusing and I wish I could give more guidance, but I think you’re just going to have to experiment to dial it in.
Britt Lindsey
Totally understand! Thank you very much. I think I’ll play around with 6, 7, and 8 and see the results.