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that your golf grip is on point and also ready to relieve
some of the tension that you may be feeling in your body during or after a round? If so, this video is for you. Stay tuned. (upbeat music) Hey there, I'm so hopeful that this video and others like it are
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of our videos, thank you. (upbeat music) If you've been out on the
golf course and during a round or maybe even after a
round you felt really sore or tension in your shoulders
or your arms, wrists or even your hands or throughout,, that could be an indication that your golf grip is just a bit off. If you're also struggling to maintain what we call a square club faith, that affords you great
consistent contact with the ball, it can also be an issue with the grip.
So let's just go through the key elements of the grip to make sure that you are gripping the
club the way you need to to make sure you swing and swing well. Now, first things first, what I find in my experience
is that many golfers are just holding the club altogether wrong in their non-dominant hand. So let's just start here. So, since the majority of
people are right handed, today I am gonna focus on things from a right handed perspective. For lefties, it's the reverse. But today we're gonna focus on things from the right-handed perspective, okay? So with that said, for
the right handed golfer, we're gonna focus on the action that's going on with the left hand.
Do you know exactly where in your hand you should be holding the club? Many people are holding
the club in their palm. And then they just kinda
wrap it around like that. Well, that's the problem and we're gonna get right
down to it and fix that. So one of the biggest mistakes that golfers make in
terms of gripping the club is holding the club right
in the palm of the hand, right here, there, presuming that we'll need to hold it here and such enclose that and gripping around.
What this does is it forces us to grip the club really tightly. If you notice, if I grip it
here, just take note of this, you'll notice that my arm, my wrist, there is no angle in my wrist, right? It's just a straight shot, but
to hold the club like this, I've got to hold it tight
to use my palm to hold it because after all my palm is much weaker, if you will, then my
fingers as a collective.
So that's mistake number one. So then you might be asking, well, Greta, where on that left hand, should I be placing the
club when I'm gripping it? It's definitely not here. We want to put it right along here. You think about right along
the base of the knuckle, right? It will go right in there. Look at that. Right? Notice, that is, if you can see there, that is premature to the palm. This is what it looks like
in the palm right there look, you can even kind
of see if you will, the fore arm the tension I
have to have to hold that grip versus right there lying along those first knuckles in there. Okay, now there's another
equally important component here. This little corner right
here on the hand right here. We call this the heel pad and it must make contact
with the top of the grip.
Okay? The handle. Now, if you think about it, if I have the grip right tight in my hand, how would that ever be possible? It's gotta be here, right? We're lying it right
across that first line of those knuckles in the hand, right? Fingers there. Right? We need this to be here, right? This to be here. Oh look easy close. Now, what you'll also notice here, it's a nice little easy angle in my wrist. Conversely, when I had it in my palm, which I just moved to see
again straight, corrected.
Nice angle here, which
allows me to have a nice, relaxed grip and to control the club. And ultimately we're doing the top of that beginning of the downswing and where these fingers
really make some action and we'll do another video on that. I just wanna give you a quick visual to help you remember
the key contact points. Okay so to help you out, I have sacrificed myself and marked up my hand.
Can you see that? Just kidding. Don't panic. That's not blood. I wanted to give you a bit of a visual so that you can see what
we're talking about here. So I want you to remember, this is where we're going
to lie the club, right? We need a contact point here, right at the heel pad, hence that. We'll also need one right at our thumb as we grip the club, right? Our thumb will go there. I have an A here for those
of you, the Scarlet letter, that's not a good place, right? We want and actually it's
not the Scarlet letter, we know this, the A in Scarlet letter
stands for something else, I digress.
Here we have that A. I want you to remember air pocket. Okay? So once we grip the club, there should be an air pocket right there. Grip along those lines. Heel pad in position, thumb contact and look, if you can see in there, right in there, there is a nice air pocket
and I am ready to go. I would put my right hand on there and we'd be ready for action
out there on the golf course. So I want you to remember
that tension in your hands during a golf swing or holding it tight, holding the club tight, will not help you improve your ball striking
or anything there.
We're cutting off the transference and the flow of energy,
but more importantly, we're kind of hurting
and damaging ourselves. So we want to make sure that we practice that simple, smooth grip. Making sure to keep that
air pocket right there and we'll be swinging and on our way to better scores and more fun. See ya in the next video. (upbeat music).