Correct Golf Grip Lessons For All
The correct grip of a golf club is the palm-and-finger grip. To achieve this grip, first grab the club with your palms facing each other. Next, place your left hand against the shaft so that the shaft lies diagonally from the crook of the left finger to the palm. This is called a combination palm and finger grip. Close your left hand with only the first two fingers and the palm holding the club. Make sure you have a fold of flesh in between the club and the little finger. This palm and finger grip will eventually lead you to having the correct grip of a golf club.
Looking down at the ball with your hands on the club you should only see two knuckles, the base knuckles of the index finger and second finger. The others are covered or hidden behind the shaft. Now you are ready for the left hand.
Your next step for finding the golf grip is assessing the right hand. The right hand is crucial because of the how it grasps the club and how it fits against the left hand. First we will look at the club. The grip with the right hand is also known as a finger grip. This is true but where are the fingers? They are referring to the base of the second and third fingers, where they meet at the palm. This is the ideal location because that is where the club can be held the most securely.
Not only is there less of a chance, there is less of a tendency, with a grip like this, to loosen your hand at the top of the swing or elsewhere. This grip, since it is at the very edge of your palm, gives you a more secure connecting joint between your arm and the golf club. It gives you more power when you hit the ball.
You need to keep the club grip between the middle knuckles of the second and third fingers and the palm. If you hold it loosely in the fingers it is likely to wobble at the top of the back swing. It will also be less efficient in transferring energy to the ball when it is struck.
We have identified the right-hand grip as being taken with the second and third fingers because, of course, the index finger is separated slightly from the middle finger and is hooked low around the club. The little finger, in the overlapping or interlocking grips, does not touch the club at all. In the so-called ten-finger grip, though, the little finger would grasp the club exactly as the second and third do.
We recommend the following putting grip for our putters. If you are right handed, then hold the grip comfortably in the left hand first. Next put your right hand below your left and behind the shaft. Adjust the height of the right hand so that the shaft fits into the groove between the fingers and palm. Now slowly bring the right hand up until the little finger overlaps the index finger of the left hand.
The moment anyone picks up a golf club for the first time to attempt to play golf, they have taken the first step to create or build a golf swing. There can be no doubt that the first foundation of a swing is the correct grip - get this right and the rest follows in sequence.A golf shot is measured by two standards. One is direction, the other is distance. Direction is governed partly by the position of the club face at impact and partly by the path the club head follows. The position of the club face is largely determined by the grip.
The well-known V's, formed by the folds of flesh between the thumb and forefinger of each hand, should both point a shade to the right of the chin, to about the inside joint of the collar bone.
That's all there is to it! Congratulations, now you know how to get the correct golf grip and with a bit of practice you'll get it right every time.
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Published December 4th, 2008
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