Training Aids To Correct Your Chicken Wing Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
Training Aids To Correct Your Chicken Wing Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

So as a golfer, you might have understood to start with the, yes I’ve got a problem with my chicken wing. I can see it’s happening. I’ve identified why it’s happening and I’ve identified what I’m trying to do to get rid of it. But if you still feel that this chicken wing happens and you keep reverting back to it. And you've tried the training exercises; the next step for yourself might not to be to get some training aids, something that physically stops you from doing that bad habit. Now obviously you can’t play on the golf course with the training aids.

So it’s something you’d have to bring into your practice routines, swinging in the back garden, taking it to the driving range. But also when you step on to the first tee to play competition, effectively you're out on your own. Now what these training aids would effectively do is pin your elbows together. So we understand that as you set up to the golf ball, we’re going to have the elbows squeezing nicely together at setup. So as I set up there, I’ve got my elbows nicely together. Now in my backswing, although my elbow is bent, they don't actually move away from each other very much. They stay nicely connected nice and together. And then likewise as I hit through the golf ball my elbows should stay very close together again. The classic chicken wing position is the elbows pulling apart. So if we could find something that keeps and squeezes the elbows together, that would be quite useful. What you’ll actually be able to find probably just on the internet or your local high street golf store would be some figure of 8 straps. And it's exactly that, it's a loop here and another loop here that just pull your elbows in together. And they are elasticated [Phonetic] [0:01:39], so you can pull them apart. The idea would be to not feel that pulling apart motion, not to feel that tension. Now if you want to try this out to get a feeling of what that might be like, you can actually just do this at home with a scarf. So get your elbows nicely together, and just get a friend or somebody else to wrap the scarf around your arms. And just tuck the end in, and then feel like there's a bit of give in the scarf, but not too much. And then during your swing, yes your elbows bend but they don't move apart. They come down nicely together. They extend out nicely together. They still don't move apart. And just swinging with that scarf on your arms, just practice swings initially and then gently clipping a few balls away. So the figure of 8 strap or the scarf should be a great way, a great training aid to help cement the feeling of keeping your lead arm straight during impact and avoiding that chicken wing that's been plaguing your golf. 2016-07-08

So as a golfer, you might have understood to start with the, yes I’ve got a problem with my chicken wing. I can see it’s happening. I’ve identified why it’s happening and I’ve identified what I’m trying to do to get rid of it. But if you still feel that this chicken wing happens and you keep reverting back to it. And you've tried the training exercises; the next step for yourself might not to be to get some training aids, something that physically stops you from doing that bad habit. Now obviously you can’t play on the golf course with the training aids.

So it’s something you’d have to bring into your practice routines, swinging in the back garden, taking it to the driving range. But also when you step on to the first tee to play competition, effectively you're out on your own. Now what these training aids would effectively do is pin your elbows together. So we understand that as you set up to the golf ball, we’re going to have the elbows squeezing nicely together at setup. So as I set up there, I’ve got my elbows nicely together. Now in my backswing, although my elbow is bent, they don't actually move away from each other very much.

They stay nicely connected nice and together. And then likewise as I hit through the golf ball my elbows should stay very close together again. The classic chicken wing position is the elbows pulling apart. So if we could find something that keeps and squeezes the elbows together, that would be quite useful. What you’ll actually be able to find probably just on the internet or your local high street golf store would be some figure of 8 straps. And it's exactly that, it's a loop here and another loop here that just pull your elbows in together. And they are elasticated [Phonetic] [0:01:39], so you can pull them apart.

The idea would be to not feel that pulling apart motion, not to feel that tension. Now if you want to try this out to get a feeling of what that might be like, you can actually just do this at home with a scarf. So get your elbows nicely together, and just get a friend or somebody else to wrap the scarf around your arms. And just tuck the end in, and then feel like there's a bit of give in the scarf, but not too much. And then during your swing, yes your elbows bend but they don't move apart. They come down nicely together. They extend out nicely together.

They still don't move apart. And just swinging with that scarf on your arms, just practice swings initially and then gently clipping a few balls away. So the figure of 8 strap or the scarf should be a great way, a great training aid to help cement the feeling of keeping your lead arm straight during impact and avoiding that chicken wing that's been plaguing your golf.