How the Face Actually Squares... And Why Pulling Left Is the Wrong Fix!
Athletic Motion Golf explains why pulling the arms and club shaft across the body to the left is an improper method for squaring the clubface. They demonstrate how this dynamic creates an out-to-in club path relative to the face, leading to slice patterns like banana balls. Golfers learn why fixing a chicken wing requires understanding proper wrist rotation rather than pulling across the body.
A chicken wing follow-through is often an unintended mechanism golfers use to try to square the clubface.
Pulling the shaft to the left may square the face to the target, but it shifts the club path further left, causing slice spin.
Proper face closure relies on wrist rotation and supination, not pulling the club across your body.
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