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Ideas For Tricks to Correctly Hold a Golf Club

By: Keith R Lunt

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Holding a golf club properly is important. Get it wrong and the ball will head off in the wrong direction. And the room for error is tiny. Here are some tricks to try that have aided me!

Even the professionals might struggle with their grips on occasion. I was told the story a few days ago of a professional player who had been nowhere in contests until a new coach influenced him to change his grip ever so vaguely. Since then, he has started winning.

And why was I being told this tale? Well, it was the exact same grip adjustment as I had been coached into the previous week, with the matching outcome.

I am assuming that you are reading this with at least a straight forward knowledge of a grip and have established into one of the accepted grips. So, I will just look at tweaks that will allow you to enhance the grip.

And that should be the primary clue - 'grip'. It is not 'hold on for dear life to the club', you grip the club. Grasp it with all your might if you have to, but it will not help and will hamper.

There are two major aims of the grip. The first is, evidently, steady control of the club. The second is that it should allow you to correctly manipulate the club during the swing action. If you are holding the club too tightly, your hand will not be able to turn through the swing properly.

Next, the actual placement of the club. For around 18 months I have practised with a golf swing trainer to mold a nice 'two knuckle' grip (back to that in a minute!). This was my demise. The change was to strengthen then left hand and use a 3 knuckle grip. Trying this with the grip trainer leaves the club head pointing in totally the wrong path, but with a driver (and irons), the ball flies straight and true.

So what around these? Well, look at the V shape between your thumb and first finger on both hands. Where is this pointing to? As we are always told, they ought to both be pointing towards the right hand shoulder (left for left handed players).

As a rule this will mean that when you look down at your left hand you should only be able to see the first two knuckles of that hand. Hence the two knuckle grip. But, if like me you have a tendency to slice the ball, it could be that you are not rotating the club completely in the downswing. There are motions to correct this whereby you rotate the right hand more than the left as you pass the ball, but this is very subjective and sometimes you get it right, other times it goes badly wrong.

But by making your left hand stronger, you rotate your left hand more than the top of the club slightly more so that you now see the first three knuckles. It feels horrible at first, but it might really help to square the club at impact and create the shot you want.

Get it right, and it is remarkable. And holding the golfing club properly is the start of a good round of golfing.

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Written by Keith Lunt of 18-Holes, where you can learn more about golf equipment and golf training.

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