HOW TO HOLD A GOLF CLUB PROPERLY - Complete Golf Grip Guide

good a golfers today's golf lesson is about how to hold a golf club we're actually going to show you a drill that's going to help you to find the right grip for you we're also going to cover some of the common pitfalls and mistakes lot of Club golfers and new golfers fall into I'm Glen Hayes welcome to the golf pros are you the best golfer you can [Music] be let's make taking hold of the golf club easier for you let's make sure we're starting with the right size grip you can check that by just putting your top hand so it's left hand for a right-handed golfer taking it on the club and making sure that couple of the fingers are touching the pad of your thumb if they're coming right round and three or four fingers are touching that pad then the grip's too small for you and if you can't reach the pad then that means the grip's too big for you so we want a couple of fingers touching the pad and before we take our hold on the golf club the first thing we need to do is put the club Behind the ball and aim at our Target we see so many golfers take hold of the golf club and the club face is a bit tooo closed or a bit too open and then they twist their hands and that's obviously affecting the position of the hands on the club that's a common mistake that we see quite often with a lot of golfers we've got to get that sequence right Club face aiming at Target and then we take our hold on the golf club the other big mistakes that we see are just getting the club in the Palms too much it seems that it's come from other sports with fat grips but we definitely want the club more in the fingers and that's the big era that we see a lot of Club golfers make you can't get a lot of power and control if the club's too much in your palms so if you take one thing from today's lesson is get the club in your fingers it's going to give you a lot more control and stability over the club face all right so let's go through what we're really looking for and we'll have some close-ups of the grip so you can really get a sense of what you need to achieve when putting your hands on the club we start with the Top Hand aiming the club face at the Target first then the top hand as I said we we want that in the fingers so we're going to place the grip in the fingers generally we're going to come down the grip about a/ in or so go down a little bit further if you want if the club's a bit too long we don't want to be holding the club right on the end here you're not going to have quite as much control and stability so coming down the grip a/ in get it in the fingers we don't want to be diagonal that's going to get the club too much in the palm and we're going to see that wear mark on the glove just there if you're check out your glove if if there's a wear Mark there then you've got that club too diagonal there too much in your palm look where my wrist is it's underneath the club we don't want it there we want it on top so perpendicular across base of the fingers that helps to get that wrist on top and a lot of people think that the thumb should go on top of the grip that's not the case we want the thumb to go across slightly that means it's going to fit better in your bottom hand so we've got the Top Hand in position after we've got the club face Square then we're going to fit the bottom hand on nice and close we see too many gaps with a lot of golfers gaps here between the fingers gaps between the hand hands hands apart you're definitely going to lose a lot of power and control over the shot we want the hands working together that means getting them close together and what a lot of us do a lot of the pros do is interlock or overlap a finger so we get the hands even closer together you can go with the 10 fingers but let's make sure that there are no gaps there I do encourage you though if you're Keen to have a go with interlocking or overlapping a finger there to get those hands together I use the interlock and that's probably the most popular now used to be the overlap was the most popular but it's more more golfers using the interlock grip now it just seems to meld those hands closer together again in the fingers bottom hand goes in the fingers reason it's so important to get the club in the fingers is we want to be able to maneuver the club we want to be able to hinge and release the golf club through the swing that gives us a lot more power over the shot but a lot more control as well this liken it to throwing a ball cuz we are actually using a throwing motion through the golf club and if you throw a ball where you put it you put it in your fingers it's nice and light you wouldn't try to throw from your palm of your hand that would be just a shot put it's not going to go as far but if we need to release the club almost like we release a ball then get in the fingers and it's much easier to snap those wrists and get some power through the shop we're going to get a lot more control and feel over the shop from the fingers as well so as I said nice and soft and light if you're strangling the golf club then you're going to lose Club head speed and you're going to lose a lot of feel for the club lot of M hits and and misalign shots just because of that tension it is pretty much the golfer's number one enemy tension again that thumb goes across slightly and we know need to be able to get those hands working as a single unit and nice and mobile let's h a shot have a waggle release that tension aiming at our Target and a good golf swing does start with a sound grip now we have some checkpoints for for you so that you know where your hands are in relation to the club face so that you can be much more accurate here a couple of uh things to note is if your hands are turned too far to the right so I can start to see three to four Knuckles on the top hand I've turned the hand to the right and this right hand's underneath too much and palm up to the sky that's called a strong grip typically that's going to either make it very difficult to release the club and you leave the face open hit a slice or if you do release the club then you tend to close the club face too much and hit it with a hook so that's a strong grip a weak grip means that your hands are turned too far to the left this is for a right-hander so now I can't see any Knuckles on my top hand and the Palm is pointing down to the ground that typically will open the club face for a lot of golfers a lot of shots to the right for a right-hander a lot of slices because of that weak grip also doesn't go very far they call it weak for a reason it doesn't have a lot of power there now of course course some of the tour Pros use slightly weaker and slightly stronger grips but you got to be careful watching tour Pros is they practice so much they can pretty much make anything work if we're talking about the best grip for you then being neutral being somewhere in between too strong and and too weak is definitely a good starting point and helps you to be much more consistent cuz remember you're not hitting thousands of golf balls like the tour pros and then the other big mistake that we see is both hands underneath so weak Top Hand and strong bottom hand see that very often so that means that the bottom hand's doing all the work and the top hand just gets forgotten golf is a two-sided game we want those hands opposing each other getting those wrists on top so that they are much more in control of the golf club and that's going to give us that freedom of motion through the golf swing to help us to generate the maximum amount of power and potential for you and of course the best control over the club face so our checkpoints are we want to see two knuckles on the top hand and this V formed by your thumb and forefinger that'll be pointing to somewhere around your Trail shoulder see that V there when we get that bottom hand on it's pretty simple we want the Palm pointing towards the target we don't want it pointing up to the sky as I said earlier we don't want it pointing down we want it pointing at the Target that's really important that's probably the most important factor here with positioning is getting the bottom hand Palm facing towards the Target and it's going to look something like that no gaps covering up the thumb you can't see my thumb my top thumb and that helps those hands work as a single unit together and nice and neutral much easier to control the club face from that position the fact is that when we're changing a grip or slightly adjusting it even then our hands want to fall back into Old patterns just because it's more comfortable so this is a super drill just to help you to improve that comfort of a new hold on the golf club but also to remind you of actually where you want your hands to be so we're going to do this in two two stages number one we're going to use the top hand and the Top Hand only so pop your bottom hand behind your back or in your pocket I've just got a wedge here and we're just going to hit some little shots just going to hit it a few paces and what that's going to do is help us to get that Top Hand in the strongest most stable and most comfortable position because typically when we get both hands on the club that tends to affect the grip of the other hand which is a bit of a problem so what that's going to help us to do is get a little bit more comfortable with having the wrist on top that gives us that support and stability you wouldn't try to chip one hand with your wrist around the side but that's how a lot of golfers hold the golf club so wrist on top as I said seeing those two Knuckles on that Top Hand and actually see if you can make good contact it's going to be quite challenging especially if you're sort of dominant with that bottom hand that's all you need to do but I want you to do lots of them not just a couple just hitting it about 5 yards feet close together it's a little Chip Shot so come down the grip a bit make sure you can see those two Knuckles and you'll be much more comfortable getting used to that grip with one hand on the club and just getting more of with it then we'll do it with the bottom hand so remember what I said earlier we want the Palm facing the target I won't see anyone chip one-handed with the hand like that underneath but that's how a lot of people hold the golf club with two hands on they feel stronger and more confident that way we're going to lose a lot of control so with one hand we're much more likely to get into this natural Palm facing the target position and again just hitting at a few Paces we don't want this to happen don't want a big swing just a little swing we're getting comfortable with getting that hand in position on its own and that's a good reminder so check how you would hold the golf club with one hand just there then check the other hand just there and then put them together and make sure that you're repeating those positions when you put both hands on the golf club the golf swing does start with the sound grip it makes sense to get it into a fairly neutral position not too strong not too weak but definitely in the fingers so that you have more power and more stability over the club face good luck thanks so much for watching are you the best golfer you can [Applause] be

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Length: 10min 25sec (625 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 01 2024