Trust that there are many wrong ways to grip a golf club, and none of the “wrong” ways will have any positive effects on your game. Moreover, you spend a lot of time researching clubs, shafts, and perfecting your form. Part of your form is how you grip the golf club.
That being said, if you’ve never taken any appreciable time to reflect on this, here’s what you should know about how to grip a golf club and why it matters.
How to Do It
For a right-handed golfer, you need to look at your lead hand first, which will be your left hand. Where you place it and how is very important.
The more fully you place the golf club grip in the palm of your hand, the weaker the grip will be, and the reason it’s called a weaker grip is because it places the wrist in a difficult position when it comes to hinge or set the club.
You don’t really want the club in the palm of the lead hand, unless you want to limit your wrist motion. The only time you would want to do that is in putting, but here we’re looking at something slightly different.
When you’re swinging a driver or a wood, you want the golf club grip down in the base of the fingers of the lead hand. Hold it against the heel pad, not the thumb pad. Think about it like picking up a suitcase; you wouldn’t lift it against your palm, you’d lift it with the base of your fingers, and if anything, squeeze it against your heel pad.
Held in this configuration, your lead hand should form an upside-down V which points up at your shoulders. As for how you orient your thumb, you have a few options. The thumb could rest right on the top of the golf club grip, but it could also be wrapped around the side. In this respect of how you grip a golf club grip the answer is what feels right to you.
As for your trail hand, you want to grip it so when you set up and take a practice swing, the club grip is leading the tee or ball slightly, and the club face should be square.
Let your trail arm hang, then place it right in front of the club grip and slide it up to meet the trail hand to achieve a neutral grip that, with practice, should bring the face back to square.
Why Proper Grip Matters
Adopting a proper grip on the golf club will help (though it won’t guarantee) that the club face returns to square at the moment of impact, which can help minimize shot errors. Good, consistent, center-face, square contact with the golf ball also helps ensure optimal energy transfer, generating maximum carry distance, too.
Upgrade Your Golf Club Grips
While upgrading your golf club grips is not a cure-all for bad form, ergonomic grips that discourage squeezing the club too tightly, and which offer better traction, control and feedback can potentially help improve your game. Some companies, like Stick Grips, even offer at-home re-gripping kits with which you can replace your golf club grips at home. Check them out, see if their club grips appeal to you, and most importantly, get to the range and drill.
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