Getting A Grip…

3:28 pm May 26, 2009

For all you beginner golfers out there, you may not be putting as
much time and energy into your grip as you should be.
And for this mini report, we are using the term “grip” to describe
your act of holding the club, not the physical grip of the club.
When they start out, most new golfers are more concerned about
swinging the club for distance and hitting the ball a mile.
However, as you get more familiar with the game, you’ll realize that
how you hold the club influences your swing and the quality of the
impact you make with the ball.

A. Individualizing Your Grip

Many top golf players have a unique grip, one that they personally
came up. And each one is different than the grips of their
competitors’.

You can certainly develop your own unique grip as you progress
through the game.

The perfect grip is one which allows you to have complete control of
the club and which provides a feeling of connection between your
hands and all the way down to the clubhead.

Your arms and the club become a single entity that connects by the
shaft. The grip should not be too tight or it will create tension in your
arms and hands, which then impairs the fluidity and flexibility of
your swing.

B. The Trigger
In most discussions of the grip, excessive attention is given to how
many knuckles should be visible or which eyeball the “Vs” should
point at. But, too little focus is placed on the fingers that are actually
resting on the shaft.

For instance, take the so-called “trigger finger” of the right-hand.
Many players, more through carelessness than by design, put their
right hand on the club as if they were actually pulling a trigger. In
other words, the trigger finger is stretched away from the middle
finger.

This can be a big mistake. A good grip enables the hands to work
together, not fighting each other for control of the club.

The more space the hands take up, the more difficult it will be for
them to work together.

The less space that they take up, the more control you will have. So
resist the temptation to “reach for the trigger” the next time you grip
a club.

Instead, keep all of your fingers snugly together.

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