A good golf grip is essential to playing a good game of golf. If you are gripping the club incorrectly or too hard, you will end up with shots that go places you don’t want them to go. There is no one exact science to the golf grip, but there are three basic golf grips that golfers use today: overlapping grip, baseball grip and the interlocking grip.
A correct golf grip doesn’t guarantee a successful golf swing; however, a defective golf grip will almost always result in a failed golf swing. This article will shed some light on developing a better golf grip.
Golf Tips: A Tight Grip Means a Better Golf Swing
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Start gripping those clubs tightly! According to golf experts, holding that club tightly has a lot of advantages over the loose grip that we see so many golfers using. As one said, ‘Weve never seen a golfers score suffer because they were using a tight grip, but weve seen a lot do badly because their grip was too loose!’
Chances are youre concerned about your wrist if you use a tight grasp. Many golfers believe that a tight grasp will make their golf swing stiff and awkward, and will prevent a wrist break.
Not so. You will do much better with a strong, tight grasp when you perform your golf swing. This should not be so tight that your shoulder and back muscles bunch up, however.
By using a tight grasp, you will avoid several errors created by holding the club too loosely. When you hold the club too loosely, you hands open at the top, preventing problems with your golf swing. Also, the left wrist is likely to collapse during the swing (or the right wrist if you golf left handed). Overswinging is another unwanted consequence of holding your gold clubs incorrectly.
Here is the correct way to hold the golf club to give you an optimal golf swing. You are aiming for a tight, two-knuckle overlap.
Right handed golfers should hold the club strongly enough that nearly all fingers are holding the club. Fingers three, four, and five (the pinkie finger) of the left hand should be on the club, as should the thumb and fingers two and three of the right hand. The opposite is true if you swing a golf club with your left hand. Take care to hook your forefingers around the club tensely. The tip of this finger should touch the tip of the thumb.
If you don’t hold the club like this, when you start your swing from the top, the club will fall into the ‘V’ between your thumb and forefinger. This causes you to lose control at the top. You will then need to get this control back as the club moves into the downward spiral of your golf swing.
Now that you understand how to hold the club when you execute a golf swing, you will want to ensure that you are standing correctly. Your golf swing will be better if you remember these two points.
First, position yourself in such a way that you have plenty of room to swing the club back freely, and that gives you enough room to arc the club downwards toward your feet. Flex your knees. If you dont know how much to flex, err on the side of too much, rather than too little.
Distribute your weight evenly between your feet then bend from the waist. Your shoulders should be rounded or humped. Put your head down so you can keep your eye on the ball throughout your golf swing. Right handed golfers will have their right shoulder lower than their left shoulder, to accommodate the right hand being further down on the clubs shaft. For left handed golfers, the left shoulder will be lower than the right.
Now you are positioned for a good golf swing. Fore!
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June Campbell is a professional writer living in Vancouver, Canada. Here articles have appeared in many print and online publications, covering an array of topics and issues.
