The correct grip of a golf club is the palm-and-finger grip. To achieve this grip, first grab the club with your palms facing each other. Next, place your left hand against the shaft so that the shaft lies diagonally from the crook of the left finger to the palm. This is called a combination palm and finger grip. Close your left hand with only the first two fingers and the palm holding the club. Make sure you have a fold of flesh in between the club and the little finger. This palm and finger grip will eventually lead you to having the correct grip of a golf club.
When you address the golf ball and peer down at your hands, you should notice only two knuckles, the ones at the base of your index finger and your big finger. This is the second, and also the final check point for fine tuning the positioning of your 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 grip higher in the fingers of the right hand, say along the inside of the middle knuckles of the second and third fingers, is untrustworthy. It is a loose grip to begin with, and the tendency is to loosen it further at the top of the swing. Finally, there is more give in it when the ball is hit.
The right-handed grip is characterized as using the second and third fingers since, naturally, the index finger, which is just a bit apart from the middle finger, is curled at a low position around the shaft. When using a grip that overlaps or interlocks, the pinky finger won’t even make contact with the club. But in what is termed the ten-finger grip, the pinky grasps the club just like the second and third fingers.
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 will find that the palm of the right comes up and faces directly to the left, and that the center of the base of the right hand fits snugly over the big knuckle at the base of the left thumb. Both thumbs will be on the shaft, the, left lying a little to the right of the top (at about 2 o’clock in aviation parlance) and the right lying to the left of the top, at about 10 or 10:30 o’clock.
The V shape that is formed at the junction between the thumb and forefinger of each hand should both be pointing at a spot just to the right of your chin.
You’ve learned all there is to learn about the grip and now all you have to do is practice it so that it feels so natural you won’t even have to think about it.
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- Sam Stingger