Can This Simple Drill Fix Your Chicken Wing Forever?

🐔 The 'chicken wing' in golf refers to excessive flexion and separation of the lead elbow during and after impact, causing inconsistency in ball striking.

🎯 Keeping the lead elbow straight and pointing toward the target at address helps prevent the chicken wing and sets up a more consistent swing.

👐 Maintaining the same distance between the elbows from address through post-impact is key to avoiding the chicken wing and improving follow-through.

🧩 Simple drills like practicing with a ball between the arms or using training aids can help reinforce proper elbow positioning.

⏳ Starting with small, slow swings and gradually increasing speed helps golfers ingrain the correct motion and eliminate the chicken wing.

00:00:00 - All right, welcome everybody. Fix my fault to one of our most popular topics. I just found out the chicken wing topic. Love this topic. I mean, I love chicken wings, but overall, we don't love them in our golf swing. And it seems that a lot of people don't uh search the topic of getting rid of it. So, let's let's help the golf masses out there. Now, we need to describe what the chicken wing is. Okay. Okay. So, can you face the camera and demonstrate your chicken wing that you told me that you

00:00:29 - wanted to get rid of? What is a chicken wing? It always ends up with my elbow back here. And I'm trying to do it slowly. I like can't really do it. But this movement in general. Yeah. So that's a good way to put it, that movement in general. But overall, the flexion of your lead elbow. um you don't see too many individuals on tour especially as they get into the follow through where this lead elbow is separated from the trail elbow in terms of like span, but then also with the uh

00:01:00 - the amount of flexion that's involved into that. So, there's a couple reason as to why it would occur, but what it makes it really hard for anybody to do because it leads into the impact position as well. If you start flexing that lead elbow, you start changing the butt of the club radius relative to the body. So now you have an issue with just your angle of attack and whatever is going on with anything impact wise. Oh so it could lead into a lot of inconsistencies with ground impact.

00:01:28 - Tops, thins, I mean, you really name it. Consistency is what people lean into but it's mostly just with where you're striking the ground relative to the the target there. Okay. Okay. So, let's help the masses out and let's make sure that we can get a good one and start, I guess, your work on some chicken wing work as well. Okay. So uh the first things first anytime that the elbow starts separating and the span and everything start really kind of going in the direction where we don't want them

00:01:52 - to be uh it essentially um is a disruption from the body motions just so you know. So anytime is really going to start with a lot of body motions just making sure you can say sway the hips towards the target you can turn the body tilt the body bend the body backwards all the optimotion numbers that we deal with day in day out here at golf tech. Okay, but if even if you don't have access to a lot of those, let's just kind of cover a drill that you can do and a couple checkpoints that just to

00:02:20 - ensure that that lead elbow doesn't have a chance to start flexing in the wrong direction. So, go ahead and set up in your address position. And this is going to Yeah, without the ball. You know what I mean? Now, so the very first checkpoint for everybody is check what you're doing at your address position. If you're already flexing that lead elbow, so go ahead and add some flex into it. There you go. And you're pointing that elbow joint, say back behind you, that's step one for you're

00:02:49 - already in uh kind of influencing yourself to do that in the chicken wing position. So the very first position I want everybody to start getting into is make sure that that lead elbow, like we've discussed before, is really really straight at the address position. Like lock that thing out. Okay? And then that elbow joint is pointing more towards your target. Okay? Okay. You look at really any good golfer especially at the tour level, um or anybody that hits the ball really well

00:03:17 - that lead elbow joint points more to the target than it does to their body. Okay. So once it starts pointing to the body then you have the opportunity to flex it more. Yeah, that makes sense. So starting it out straight as much as possible or extend that that lead elbow and then point it towards the target. Perfect. Okay. Now, whatever you set with the elbow span here, okay? Uh the the distance between the trail and the lead elbow needs to return back to that

00:03:42 - position just post impact. Okay. Okay. And then leading into the uh the the follow through position. Okay. So, my challenge to you is try to keep that distance that you have with your elbows the same. Okay. Okay. For say like a club being parallel to the ground to club being parallel to the ground on the opposite side. Okay. Okay. So, let's do a couple practice swings like that. And just Good. Now, keep the distance the exact same even on the back swing. Oh. Okay.

00:04:14 - Yeah. Whoa. Still move the hands inward. All the things that we've done before. Good. Good. And this is a really good start for anybody. There's so many training aids out there, but uh that like cause you to do it or just fundamentally get you to do it. You have to do it on your own. Uh so like ball between the arms is a fun one because you have to do it to keep the ball in between your arms and keep it there. Uh but like the straps and everything that that keep the elbows together. I've even

00:04:46 - seen a shirt that you can put your elbows through which is fine and it gets the concept down. Okay. But still you have to get out there and do it yourself even on the range. Yeah. And this is a really good way of doing it. So is this is this to overexaggerate it in my back swing or is this actually what my back swing is supposed to bingo. So regardless the the elbow span that you set at the beginning, it separates at the top of the swing by about 4 in. Okay. But then it returns back to where

00:05:12 - you had it at your address position at post impact. Okay. And then leading into where we stop in our swing right now. Okay. So just practicing keeping it together and just closer for longer is going to be a really good rehearsal and just making sure that you can get rid of this nasty chip. Okay. Okay. So a couple more practice swings and then we'll do some impacts and then you really want to stop on the follow through to judge to see how close those are together. Okay.

00:05:40 - Okay. One more and then we're going to hit a ball out there. Nice. Okay. I think you're ready. Even try to get them closer than you had it at the address position even in the follow through would be a really good step as well. Okay.

00:05:59 - How are they? Chicken wing. No, look at that. You got rid of it. Ow. It's easier than than assumed, but you slow it down. Then you start just speeding and adding some more speed to the club head as you're starting to get used to the position. start with these little swings and then continue to start taking your fuller swing. But I mean even look at a lot of pros on tour, the ones that are even playing indoors sometimes on simulators, they have uh they're stopping their swings just post

00:06:26 - that parallel position, which is fine. Okay? So, doing a lot of these and just starting off small, that's the important stuff. Okay? [Music]

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