By T.J. Tomasi
Universal Press Syndicate
If you constantly hit pushed slices off the heel of the clubface, with an occasional shank thrown in to test your patience, you're no doubt thrusting your hips forward toward the ball when they should be rotating.
The solution: Keep your hips (your core) back until your arms have time to drop down in front of your body, i.e., your hips don't start to rotate until your club shaft is parallel to the ground. Now that doesn't mean that your hips don't move. It means that from the top, your hips should shuttle laterally before they rotate.
To help get the feel, place a chair behind your rear end at address so that both cheeks are touching it. Then leap off your back foot and allow your trail hip to come out toward the target line at the start of your downswing (your trail cheek will come off the chair). You'll find that you won't have time to get your trail elbow in position.