The age-old advice of gripping your clubs so that the Vs created by your thumbs and forefingers point toward your rear shoulder doesn’t cut it anymore. Not even close. Research on human anatomy and efficient movement proves that there’s no universal “best way” to set your hands on the handle. Every player’s body and range of motion varies, often wildly. If you don’t consider these differences when taking your grip, you’ll be fighting yourself and risking injury the whole way — and hitting slices and hooks without ever knowing why.
Here’s the smart way to set your hands to max out your natural potential and almost guarantee a more consistent ballflight. Keep reading below to get started.
Pointing both Vs at your trail shoulder assumes that we all move in the same way. We don’t. Every player has his or her “natural motion.” A good grip accentuates it while a poor one limits it, and a good grip starts with placing your lead hand on the handle in its most natural setting. To find it, stand erect with your arms dangling freely at your sides. No ball, no posture. Now, grip a club. That’s it. You’re now in position to start and finish your swing with zero need for manipulation.
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Do this: Let your lead arm hang softly at your side, then grip the club. This is your most natural lead-hand position. If you’re a slicer of the ball, then you’ve been getting this wrong the whole time. Stephen Denton
Then this: With your new lead-hand hold, point the club out in front of you, then begin rotating the handle back and forth, as if turning a doorknob. You should immediately recognize more comfort and range of motion. For some, the ideal lead-hand position will be more “on top” of the handle. Stephen Denton
The exercise at above gets you close to your ideal lead-hand hold, but it may not be perfect (which is what you want). The next step is to double-check that your lead-hand grip matches up with your lead-hip mobility. When these sync, it’s magic. When they don’t, you can expect more of the same inconsistency. Place your trail hand on the handle, hold the club in your address posture, then get into a “dynamic impact” position, with your weight on your front side, hands forward and your hips as open as possible. Now, check your results (see below).
Proper Golf Grip
I asked you to add your trail hand to your grip to fine-tune your lead-hand hold on the previous page. Now, let’s take the trailhand addition seriously. Using your new leadhand position, hold the club out in front of you at a 45-degree angle. Slip on your trail hand, being careful to place the grip through the base of your fingers (so they can wrap around the handle easily), not through your palm. Fellow Top 100 Teacher Michael Jacobs uses a great analogy: Hold the handle in your trail hand like you’d hold a suitcase. Perfect.
With both hands on the handle, motion the club over your trail shoulder (right), then throw it forward as if casting a fishing line. This simple test replicates the trailarm extension that happens in all downswings. Top 100 HOF-er Mike Adams has done great work on this nearautomatic extension and how important it is for your trail-hand grip to accommodate it (just like the need for your lead hand to match your hip mobility). Do the cast test, then check your results (see below).
Even the slightest mismatch between your trailhand hold and the manner in which your trail arm extends during your downswing will limit your potential. (If you tend to slice, it’s likely that this grip and extension mismatch is the culprit.) Once you cast the club in the drill, hold and check the position of the clubface. Adjust using the guides below.
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It’s unlikely your Vs will both point toward your trail shoulder once you find your natural hold. Not only is this okay, it’s what you need to swing without restriction while keeping hooks and slices at bay. One last thing: Check for any gaps between your fingers. You want zero. This increases the surface area over which you can push and pull on the handle, giving you greater control of the clubface. You wouldn’t bench press with your fingers apart, right? Your hold is now perfect. Let ’er rip!If you're a player who tends to hit a hook, first count yourself fortunate. A hook is the last stop on the road to a good golf swing, and you're very close to hitting consistent, powerful shots. But it's still a ball-flight problem you need to take care of to make that next step and become a scratch or near-scratch player.
A strong grip is by far the most common error I see with players who curve the ball too much from right to left. The right hand drifts to the right--away from the target--and moves underneath the club, as shown in the photograph below. With the right hand in this position, it will tend to turn over too much through impact. Because the position of the right palm roughly replicates the clubface, it's easy to see why this turning over of the right hand causes the clubface to close and the ball to curve left.
To calm that hook down to a manageable draw, adjust your right hand to a more neutral position, as I'm demonstrating above. Turn it toward the target, so you can't see your left thumb when you've made your completed grip. I also like to put my right index finger in a trigger position under the handle, which supports the club through the swing. If the finger wraps around the grip too much, the club tends to get loose at the top.
How To Hold A Golf Club
When I'm out doing a speaking engagement, or just talking to a golf fan at a course somewhere, the first question I almost always get is, What was it like to work with Tiger Woods? I had an incredible opportunity to be with Tiger for six years, from 2004 to 2010. I got to see arguably the best player of all time at the highest level, and be a part of everything that went with it--good and bad. I have a lot of memories from those experiences. I spent a ton of time with Tiger, both inside the ropes at tournaments and working on his game back in Florida.
I think it's a fascinating and valuable story to share. That's why I wrote The Big Miss. I'm in a unique position to shed some light on why he's been so dominant and why he's struggled at certain points. I also know first-hand the challenges any coach would be confronted with when working with the world's best. I got to live a part of golf history, and I wanted to share it.
Commentators analyzing tour pros have a phrase they use to describe a certain good-player mistake: They call it getting stuck. It's a colorful term, but I'm not sure if regular golfers—like those I go back and forth with on Twitter—know what it means.
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The easiest way to picture it is to compare it to the opposite problem: a slicer coming over the top. In that move, the player swings the club down from the outside on a steep angle. Getting stuck is coming from too far inside and behind the body. The upper body obstructs or interferes with the club's path to the ball.
The most common reason players get stuck is, they don't keep the arms and club in front of the chest as they turn back and through. When the club trails the upper body on the way down, the hands have to flip the clubhead over to recover. Hello, hook.
If that player tries to make a big body turn through to compensate, the club gets even more stuck. That's often a block.
How To Hold A Golf Club: The Correct Way (and How To Grip A Golf Club)
If you can keep the same relationship between your upper body, arms and the club from address through impact, you'll be able to swing fast and free.While there are an infinite number of ways that players hold a golf club right handed, there are three basic ways to do it with an unlimited number of variations after that.
The three main golf grip types that are being used are the interlocking grip, the overlapping grip, and the 10 finger grip.
The main differences that we are exploring here come from the underside of how you hold a golf club as you can see from the picture below:
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The specifics of how each hand is placed on the club to create the golf grip in detail will be discussed in this post.
The main point here is to understand the differences between these three most common golf grip types and finding which one the player will want to use and is the most comfortable for them.
The picture on the far left is the underside of the ten finger golf grip. This way to hold is also referred to as the baseball grip. As you can see from
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