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1. THE PROBLEM

A wing and a prayer

A "chicken wing" is golf talk for what happens when a player tries to steer the ball into the fairway by keeping the clubface square to the target for as long as possible. Christy Wilcox, a 30-handicapper from State College, Pa., tried to do this by pulling the club down across her body with the left arm, which caused her left elbow to flare past impact and look like a chicken wing. This caused the clubface to be open at impact and her shots to slice. Instead of trying to hold the club in this position, she needed to allow the clubface to rotate to a slightly closed position (pointing left of the target) just past impact.

2. THE FIX

Swing with the right arm only

The clubface is square to the target for only an instant as it makes contact with the ball. There's no need to try to get the clubface in this square position any longer than that. I asked Christy to hit shots with her right arm only, focusing on swinging the club farther out in front of her body rather than across it. At the same time, I wanted her right forearm to roll over as if she were hitting a forehand topspin shot in tennis. Even though her left arm was off the club, she initially had trouble breaking her habit of trying to hold the club in a square position through impact. So I stood between her and the target and pulled the club past her body so she could feel the sensation of the right forearm rolling over through the impact zone.

3. THE RESULT

Rotate and release

After she made a few one-arm swings, I asked Christy to swing with both arms while I stood just off her left side. I wanted to see if she would throw that left elbow into my rib cage. She didn't. Instead, she forgot about trying to keep the ball in play and simply swung the club. Her forearms rolled over toward the target through impact, and the club released down the target line the way it should. She reduced her slice and instantly added yards to her full-swing shots.

Kurt Mantyla teaches at the Golf Digest School at Whirlwind Golf Club, Chandler, Ariz.

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