Butch Baird, a 5 decade golf professional, explains the fundamentals of a good golf grip, including why it is so important and some simple ways you can improve your own. #golf #golfswing #progolf #pgaprofessional
Thanks to Dove Valley Ranch Golf Club, Cave Creek, AZ for letting us film at your wonderful location, dovevalleyranch.com
Featuring retired professional golfer Butch Baird, with support from @PetesNature
Ask why do you want a good grip we don’t grip anything in life like we do a golf club hanging on to the club the grip part has a big influence as to how you take the club back and how you come in if you do not have a good grip you have
To impl liviz you got to change something to get back to the ball a proper way but if you have the proper grip you have to change hardly anything what I have here is an item that you can go buy5 or $6 and it puts your fingers
And hands in a correct position I have used it for the last 15 or 25 years and I have three of them at the house I put one on a club when I go to Range to practice this particular Golf Club always goes with me and this gets the
Grip in a proper position it won’t let you do anything but that and these you can buy like I said for5 $6 whatever it is and had to Pro at the pro shop slip it on one of your old golf clubs so when you go to practice you can put your
Hands on there correctly cuz it makes you do it and if it makes you do it it’s a lot easier than trying to do it this is one of my clubs that I use to practice with even though I know how to do it it still makes me even of all
These years makes me think that okay I got the grip on there perfectly I can work on something else at the time how we should hold the golf club and I said we cuz I have to work on my grip all the time too in the left hand when you first
Set the club there you want it in the fingers of the hand never in the Palm in the Palm you have control of it now that’s kind of a unusual word to say you have control you don’t want control of a golf club in your hands you want to let
The body control it so we’re going to set it in the fingers set the hand up now I have when I I grip this club the correct way a little bit of of a v right here and it always goes towards my right shoulder in the right hand same thing
You grip it in the fingers never in the palm and I mean never in the Palm once again once you wrap your hand around it you’ll have that V that we had just a moment ago it will go towards the right side now let’s go underneath the club
Once you have your hands on here there’s a couple different ways you can you can interlock with a little finger those two fingers will interlock or you may lay it on top the little finger on top of this one or in between the two fingers right there what
You want to have is this to work as one unit if it works as one unit they won’t oppose each other they’ll be working together as one one unit and you’d be surprised how much better that’s hard to say how much better it is to control the
Club with a good grip but you don’t have you don’t have control because you’re controlling with the body what does it do start you with a good foundation for hitting a ball moving at a ball it get your hands as to one particular unit without this most of us including myself
I at the beginning I I had the right hand way over here which it felt pretty comfortable incorrect it has to be here it’ll give you more opportunity to hit quality shots I can’t emphasize how important this is it’s like the steering wheel of a car if the steering wheel is
Right in the middle it’s really easy to go down the street straight but if it’s set this way a little bit you have to make adjustments as you go down the street with the steering wheel that’s what this is right here the steering wheel of the whole off swing if I’m
Working on Basics which this is exactly what you want to work on all the time utilize of Basics and it will give you an opportunity to hit better shots lower your handicap and make the people you’re playing with envious of you
