I really do believe that the grip of all the fundamentals is the most important one I mean that is really your link between the club and yourself and if you don't get that right you're going to struggle and I play in Prime's every week and the number one thing I see that most amateurs don't do is is grip it properly you know I think as a young kid my grip was a little bit different to what it is now I think you know I gripped a little bit stronger this right hand more underneath this left hand more over you know because as a kid you don't have as much strength and that helps you to turn the ball and hit the ball a little bit further but as I've gotten older and more stronger my grips evolved a little bit more to a more traditional grip you know you always want the grip that the shaft running through the fingers in your left hand this pad on on top of your hand on top of your wrist here should should fall nicely on top of the club you know so when you get it in this position you're able to hinge the club that's really a big power source in the golf swing the right hand is very similar and I use an interlocking grip you know it was good enough for Jack it's good enough for Tiger it's good enough for me I suppose a lot of people use overlap but you know I feel like the interlock grip gives me a little bit more stable feeling something I've always done again through the fingers this wraps over nicely get this nice little V that kind of points to right shoulder and you know that being in the fingers really allows you to hinge this club up and down and that's a huge power source in the game that's where that hinge and that unhinging of the club comes and create speed so now my grip definitely has a vowel when I was a young kid it was a little bit more underneath you know as as times gone by gotten it a little bit more square and I'm always constantly checking my grip my starts my posture the three fundamentals in the swing that are most important I think it's just gradually shifted you know as I said as I got stronger I didn't need to grip it as strong you know I felt like you know the more neutral my grip was the more control I had over the golf ball I wasn't so concerned with distance I was concerned more about line and hitting the right distance not far but controlling the distance so you know it's just evolved over time and every year it seems to get just a little bit more weaker right now I feel very comfortable with my grip in the left hand it's more more pressure on the last two digits on the right it's a little bit more in the middle to sort of the middle finger and the fourth finger you know and you know that good pressure is hinging and holding the grip in you know through this line here in the hand as well so you don't want ever to grip the club too tightly I think you want to hold it just light enough to hold on to it you know you want that freedom that movement in the wrist as soon as you get too tight I tend to take the club of it too far inside and shut now if I keep it nice and loose like Club hinges nicely toe goes up in the air and it helps my backswing so so it's very important to grip you
Luke Donald: Mizuno Masterclass 5 / Progression of grip
