How To Golf The Correct Way
For the palm and finger golf grip, start with your hands directly facing each other as you grasp the club. Place your left hand on the shaft so that it contacts slantwise across your palm through the bend of your index finger. This hand will grip by combination of both your palm and your fingers. Closing your hand, the club should come to rest in your palm and first two fingers. Between your little finger and the club, you should automatically have a flap of skin. This will protect you from the friction of the swing. This is your check point for proper palm and finger golf grip.
As you address the ball and look down at your hands, you must see no more than two knuckles, those at the base of index finger and the big finger. Two knuckles! This is your second and last check point for the position of this 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.
This grip is firm enough to prevent the club from wobbling at the top of the back swing or when the ball is struck. This is important not just for accuracy but also for power. It makes the club and the arms swing as one unit which gives you a more intuitive feel for accuracy and transmits more energy to the ball when it is struck.
Any type of hold higher in the fingers of your right hand is unreliable. This is a somewhat relaxed hold to start with, and the propensity is to relax it even more when you are at the top of your swing. Also, there is likely to be more give when you hit the ball.
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.
Golfers find it hard to believe, apparently, that a golf ball is driven straight by hitting it from the inside. The average player has the almost overpowering conviction that if he hits the ball from inside this line it will fly far out to the right. He cannot see how anything else can happen. He also knows that when he takes the club to the top of the well inside this line. His first instinct, when he starts the club down, is to manipulate the head out onto the line or near it, so he can bring it down along the line .
You should notice your right palm comes up and is facing expressly to the left, and that the middle of the bottom of this hand fits comfortably over the big knuckle at the bottom of your left thumb. Your two thumbs should be on the shaft with your left positioned a bit to the right of the top and the right positioned to the left of the top, in the ten o'clock and two o'clock positions as they say.
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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