HOW TO HOLD A GOLF CLUB PROPERLY – Complete Golf Grip Guide

How to hold the golf stick correctly? The golf club grip affects golf shots immensely, so it’s important to find the correct golf grip for you. Should you use a baseball, overlap or interlocking golf grip? Is my grip too strong or too weak?

Thousands of articles have been written and videos published on how to hold the golf club. The golf grip is a vital fundamental, in which all golfers should invest quality time, in an effort to find the ideal and most effective golf grip for them.

After all, the hands are the only point of contact we have with the club. The placement of the hands on the grip can and does affect clubhead speed, clubface rotation, mobility, stability, feel and overall control over the club.

Club golfers, in our opinion, often start behind the 8-ball, by employing a poor hold on the golf club, adversely affecting their ability to release the golf club and square up the clubface consistently.

Common errors include: gripping the golf club too much in the palms of the hands, placing the thumbs on top of the grip and holding the club too tightly.

Aussie Golf Pros demonstrate these and other pitfalls, which may affect your ability to deliver the golf clubhead to the ball with power, control and consistency. Glen Haynes shows you a simple process to hold the golf club effectively and he also demonstrates a unique golf drill to help you find the right grip for you.

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0:00 How to Hold a Golf Club
0:28 Golf Grip Size
0:53 Aim the Club 1st
1:21 Common Mistakes
1:50 Top Hand
3:30 Bottom Hand
4:19 A Light Grip
5:40 Grip Check Points
8:21 Golf Grip Drill

In this video, Glen uses and recommends:

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Srixon ZX Forged Mk II Irons ~ https://us.dunlopsports.com/srixon/srixon-golf-driver-selector-fitting.html

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The Aussie Golf Pros are holistic coaches in every sense of the word. Steve and Glen are both fully qualified members of the PGA of Australia and are avid students of the Sports Sciences. Together, they are certified in Advanced Golf Coaching, Golf Psychology, TPI (Body-Swing Connection), NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Personal Development and Skill Acquisition.

Steve and Glen are not ‘Method’ coaches. They recognise that there are literally 1000’s of ways to swing a golf club! Rather than try to ‘change’ your swing, their goal is to help You Be The Best Golfer You Can Be!

Skill Development vs Technical Changes

Although technique is an important factor in improving a golfer’s performance, Skill Development is largely neglected in golf coaching today. Skill is something that can be tangibly improved with proper understanding of the golf impact laws and effective practice towards improved performance.

External Focus of Attention

Most golf teaching involves an internal focus. Common suggestions might include increased hip turn, a still head or improved hand path. These are all factors of the golf swing, which many golfers and teachers consider important. However, as they are focused internally, on movements of the body, golfers find changes extremely difficult to process.

Good a golfers today’s golf lesson is about how to hold a golf club sure there are thousands of videos on YouTube about the golf grip so what’s different about this one we’re actually going to show you a drill that’s going to help you to find the right grip for you we’re also

Going to cover some of the common pitfalls and mistakes lot of Club golfers and new golfers fall into I’m Glen Haynes welcome to aie golf pros are you the best golfer you can Be let’s make taking hold of the golf club easier for you let’s make sure we’re starting with the right size grip you can check that by just putting your top hand so it’s left hand for a right-handed golfer taking it on the club and making sure that couple of the

Fingers are touching the pad of your thumb if they’re coming right round and three or four fingers are touching that pad then the grip’s too small for you and if you can’t reach the pad then that means the grip’s too big for you so we want a couple of fingers touching the

Pad and before we take our hold on the golf club the first thing we need to do is put the club Behind the ball and aim it out Target we see so many golfers take hold of the golf club and the club face is a bit too closed or a bit too

Open and then they twist their hands and that’s obviously affecting the position of the hands on the club that’s a common mistake that we see quite often with a lot of golfers we’ve got to get that sequence right Club face aiming at Target and then we take our hold on the golf

Club the other big mistakes that we see are just getting the club in the Palms too much it seems that it’s come from other sports with grips but we definitely want the club more in the fingers and that’s the big error that we see a lot of Club golfers make you can’t

Get a lot of power and control if the club’s too much in your palms so if you take one thing from today’s lesson is get the club in your fingers that’s going to give you a lot more control and stability over the club face all right so let’s go through what we’re really

Looking for and we’ll have some close-ups of the grip so you can really get a sense of what you need to achieve when putting your hands on the club we start with the Top Hand aiming the club face at Target first then the top hand

As I said we want that in the fingers so we’re going to place the grip in the fingers generally we’re going to come down the grip about a/ in or so come down a little bit further if you want if it CS a bit too long we don’t want to be

Holding the club right on the end here you’re not going to have quite as much control and stability so coming down the grip a/ in get it in the fingers we don’t want to be diagonal that’s going to get the club too much in the palm and

We’re going to see that wear mark on the glove just there if you’re check out your glove if if there’s a we Mark there then you’ve got that club too diagonal there too much in your palm look where my wrist is it’s underneath the club we

Don’t want it there we want it on top so perpendicular across base of the fingers that helps to get that wrist on top and a lot of people think that the thumb should go on top of the grip that’s not the case we want the thumb to go across

Slightly that means it’s going to fit better in your bottom hand base of the fingers wrist on top and you should be able to nice and stable able lift the club up and down here like this just with that one hand now I know that might be quite challenging if you’re not very

Strong and it’s possibly not your dominant hand but that’s the goal that we want here we want that control over the golf club and we should be able to hold that even with just two or three fingers there and in position we can’t do that if if you’re

Holding it like this in the Palm with the wrist underneath that wrist on top really does help us with stability and it’s it’s something we don’t see enough of so we’ve got the Top Hand in position after we’ve got the club face Square then we’re going to fit the bottom hand on

Nice and close we see too many gaps with a lot of golfers gaps here between the fingers gaps between the hands hands apart you’re definitely going to lose a lot of power and control over the shot we want the hands working together that means getting them close together and

What a lot of us do a lot of the pros do is interlock or overlap a finger so we get the hands even closer together you can go with the 10 fingers but let’s make sure that there are no gaps there I do encourage you though if you’re Keen

To have a go with interlocking or overlapping finger there to get those hands together I use the interlock and that’s probably the most popular now used to be the overlap was the most popular but more and more golfers using the interlock grip now it just seems to meld those hands closer together again

In the fingers bottom hand goes in the fingers now the reason it’s so important to get the club in the fingers is we want to be able to maneuver the club we want to be able to hinge and release the golf club through the swing that gives

Us a lot more more power over the shot but a lot more control as well let liken it to throwing a ball cuz we are actually using a throwing motion through the golf club and if you throw a ball where you put it you put it in your

Fingers it’s nice and light you wouldn’t try to throw from your palm of your hand that would be just a shot put it’s not going to go as far but if we need to release the club almost like we release a ball then get in the fingers and it’s

Much easier to snap those wrists and get some power through the shot we’re going to get a lot more control and feel over the shot from the fingers as well so as I said nice and soft and light if you’re strangling the golf club then you’re going to lose Club head

Speed and you’re going to lose a lot of feel for the club a lot of M hits and and misalign shots just because of that tension it is pretty much the golfer’s number one enemy tension again that thumb goes across slightly and we know need to be able to

Get those hands working as a single unit and nice and mobile let’s h a shot have a waggle release that tension and get our Target and a good golf swing does start with a sound grip now we have some checkpoints for you so that you know

Where your hands are in relation to the club face so that you can be much more accurate here a couple of uh things to note is if your hands are turned too far to the right so I can start to see three to four Knuckles on the top hand I’ve

Turned the hand to the right and this right hands underneath too much and palm up to the sky that’s called a strong grip typically that’s going to either make it very difficult to release the club and you leave the face open hit a slice or if you do release the club then

You’re going to tend to close the club face too much and hit it with a hook so that’s a strong grip weak grip means that your hands are turned too far to the left this is for a right-hander so now I can’t see any Knuckles on my top

Hand and the Palm is pointing down to the ground that typically will open the club face for a lot of golfers a lot of shots to the right for a right-hander a lot of slices because of that weak grip also doesn’t go very far they call it

Weak for a reason it doesn’t have a lot of power there now of course some of the tour Pros use slightly weaker and slightly stronger grips but you got to be careful watching Tor Pros they practice so much they can pretty much make anything work if we’re talking

About the best grip for you then being neutral being somewhere in between too strong and too weak is Def definitely a good starting point and helps you to be much more consistent cuz remember you’re not hitting thousands of golf palls like the tour pros and then the other big mistake that

We see is both hands underneath so weak Top Hand and strong bottom hand see that very often so that means that the bottom hands doing all the work and the top hand just gets forgotten golf is a two-sided game we want those hands opposing each other getting those wrists

On top so that they are much more in control of the golf club and that’s going to give us that freedom of motion through the golf swing to help us to generate the maximum amount of power and potential for you and of course the best control over the club face so our

Checkpoints are we want to see two Knuckles on the top hand and this V formed by your thumb and forefinger that’ll be pointing to somewhere around your Trail shoulder see that V there when we get that bottom hand on it’s pretty simple we want the Palm pointing

Towards the target we don’t want it pointing up to the sky as I said earlier we don’t want it pointing down we want it pointing at the Target that’s really important that’s probably the most important factor here with positioning is getting the bottom hand Palm facing towards the Target and it’s going to

Look something like that no gaps covering up the thumb you can’t see my glove thumb my top thumb and that helps those hands work as a single unit together and nice and neutral much easier to control the club face from that position the fact is that when we’re changing a grip or slightly

Adjusting it even then our hands want to fall back into Old patterns just because it’s more comfortable so this is a super drill just to help you to improve that comfort of a new hold on the golf club but also to remind you of actually where

You want your hands to be so we’re going to do this in two stages number one we’re going to use the top hand and the Top Hand only so pop your bottom hand behind your back or in your pocket I’ve just got a wedge here and we’re just

Going to hit some little shots just going to hit it a few paces and what that’s going to do is help us to get that Top Hand in the strongest most stable and most comfortable position because typically when we get both hands on the club that tends to affect the

Grip of the other hand which is a bit of a problem so what that’s going to help us to do is get a little bit more comfortable with having the wrist on top that gives us that support and stability you wouldn’t try to chip one hand with

Your wrist around the side but that’s how a lot of golfers hold the golf club so wrist on top as I said seeing those two Knuckles on that Top Hand and actually see if you can make good contact it’s going to be quite challenging especially if you’re sort of

Dominant with that bottom hand that’s all you need to do but I want you to do lots of them not just a couple just hitting at about 5 yards feet close together it’s a little Chip Shot so come down the grip a bit make sure you can

See those two Knuckles and you’ll be much more comfortable getting used to that grip with one hand on the club and just getting more OFA with it then we’ll do it with the bottom hand so remember what I said earlier we want the Palm facing the target I won’t see anyone one chip

One-handed with the hand like that underneath but that’s how a lot of people hold the golf club with two hands on they feel stronger and more confident that way we’re going to lose a lot of control so with one hand on we’re much more likely to get into this natural Palm facing the

Target position and again just hitting at a few Paces we don’t want this to happen don’t want a big swing just a little swing we’re getting comfortable with getting that hand in position on its own and that’s a good reminder so check how you would hold the golf club with one hand

Just there then check the other hand just there and then put them together and make sure that you’re repeating those positions when you put both hands on the golf club the golf swing does start with the sound grip it makes sense to get it into a fairly neutral position

Not too strong not too weak but definitely in the fingers so that you have more power and more stability over the club face good luck thanks for watching are you the best golfer you can [Applause] be