How to Grip a Golf Club

Before you begin playing golf, one of the first things you should buy, or get access to, is a full length mirror. That way when you practice, you can actually see what you're doing. Many people these days video record their golf actions in order to study them later. This is a good idea because it allows you to see your mistakes and correct them.

Proper Grip

How to grip a golf club is pretty simple really, the way you put your hands on the club determines where your ball is going to go. If your grip is weak, making the impact point wrong, the ball will either slice or you will draw the ball, meaning that it won't be a straight trajectory coming off the club at impact. A good grip is considered to be a neutral grip, neither too strong nor to weak, but just enough to give good solid control.

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How to Grip Properly

Always position your grip with the club off the ground and pointed toward the sky. This way the club rests in the fingers rather than the palm of the hand. If the club is controlled by the palm, then a weak grip is what results.  At this point, you may also want to check the grips on your club. If they are not the correct size, it will also cause a bad grip on address. Wrong size grips can cause you to hold the club too tightly resulting in tension in arms and wrists, which shortens your swing. If your grips are too large then your swing will be slow while too small of grips cause your hands to overreact.

Top Hand Important to Know

This may sound silly, however it is important to know which hand is the top hand in your grip. For the right handed golfer, the left hand is the top hand in the grip. For a left-handed person, the right hand is the top hand in the grip; the other hand is the bottom hand.

Start by standing and holding the club in your bottom hand, where the grip meets the shaft. The club head is at your forehead and the grip is at your waist. The club is pointed at the sky and is vertical. Take your top hand and wrap your fingers around the grip. Lay the rest of your top hand on the club so that the palm is touching the grip. Slide your bottom hand toward your top hand.    You can interlock your pinky finger with your index finger or simply lay it over your index finger.

The club should be in your fingers, not your palm. Keeping the club in your fingers generates more swing speed. When the club is controlled by the palms the swing speed is slower, the elbows are bent and there is a lack of extension.  Practice the grip ten times a day for a month. Keep going over the fundamentals on how to grip a golf club. The grip may feel a little strange but it will get better with practice, guaranteed.

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