In our forums, our members have been taking a deep dive into fairway woods. WRXer ‘serveitup911’ is on the hunt for the perfect fairway wood setup but is having trouble in his search and says:

“I cannot stand clubs that look closed at address. I need some forgiveness, mostly toe side. I don’t like tiny heads. The 3 wood will be used mostly from the tee, and 5 wood will be used mostly from the fairway.”

And from ‘serveitup911’s opening post, our members have been sharing their thoughts in our forum.

Here are a few posts from the thread, but make sure to check out the entire discussion and have your say at the link below.

• hoosier84: “You may want to give the TS2 a shot. I played it yesterday (3 wood) for the first time. I do have trouble hooking woods. It wasn’t as bad yesterday, but still going a bit too much left and then I pulled out the tool and switched it from the default to the B-1 flat setting. Maybe it was psychological, but it Immediately helped. I tend to balloon my woods and irons (swing flaw) and wasn’t doing so with the Smoke Black 6.0 shaft, which felt pretty smooth. Going to now get the 4 wood of this and do a bit of a battle of the bag. And experiment using the 4 wood shaft in the 3, so I can play the 3 wood at 42.5″. Shortening my driver length really helped me a couple years ago. Curious to see the differences between the 15* and 16.5* heads at the same 42.5″ length with the Smoke. This has been a spring for me to mess with fairways and 2/3 hybrids. I have been trying the Cobra F7 woods since the F7 3/4 and 4/5 hybrids earned a spot in my bag earlier this year. But they may sit a tad too upright for me. Right now you can get a pretty good deal for a used TS2 on 2nd Swing. Use the Titleist coupon code they have at the top of the page.”
• Argonne69: “If your 3 wood is going to be used exclusively for tee shots, then why not go with a deep face 3w or mini driver? I never hit my “3W” off the turf, so I went with a mini driver. I have an older TM Aeroburner, but a Callaway 3Deep would be an option, as well as the newer TM Original One. I had the same issue with my G400 5 wood, so I swapped it for a G400 7 wood and delofted it. That opened the face a bit, and still kept the distance slightly less than a standard 5w.”
• Yuck: “I always was very picky about fairway woods and do not like closed faces. Until a couple months ago I played a 15-degree TEE CB2 I have had well over 10 years. Recently I picked up a like new Epic flash sub zero 3 wood. Worked out very well. If it is too low spin for you the weights can be reversed. I liked it so much I ordered a 5 wood, which I have not bagged since my wood club days. You can pick up a like-new from the Callaway preowned website right now for about $120. Cheap experiment if it does not work out.”
• asumberdawg: “Look at Tour Edge Exotics. I’m still gaming a 2013 CB pro. They produce some of the best fairway woods on the market.”
• cw1209: “I would vote for the Cobra SZ Big Tour 13.5 and SZ Tour 17.5. I had the F9 14.5* fairway and found it to be spinny/hook prone as well. Most of that was due to the upright lie angle. SZ fairways are all more flat than the F9 series. The SZ shape is great, and the tour fairways don’t have the yellow strips on the crown either, which is a plus for me.”

Entire Thread: “The holy grail of fairway woods”