Proper Swing Use of Your Fingers - Senior Golf Tip (Video) - by Dean Butler
Proper Swing Use of Your Fingers - Senior Golf Tip (Video) - by Dean Butler

What I want to talk about now is the position of your fingers and the pressure on your fingers on the golf grip. By now I’m sure everybody knows how we should grip the golf club, but do you know where the finger should be on the club? So, let’s show you how this should be. When you put your left hand on, the top three fingers are basically holding that club. That’s what controls the club in your left hand, those three fingers. Not the thumb or the forefinger there, those three fingers and when we put the right hand into position, the middle two fingers, the two fingers there that actually hold, so we’ve got five finger that are actually taking control.

So, the top three fingers of the left hand, [Indiscernible] [0:00:59] handed and it’s the middle two fingers there, which are basically gripping the club and those five fingers are the five fingers that should be taking total control of the grip. Now, very, very important. Your pressure must be very, very light. Quite often golfers grip their club far, far too hard and if you grip too hard, then we get this sort of tightness, this tension where there is no sort of freedom to actually swing the golf club, so the pressure needs to be very, very light and to give you an idea of how light the pressure should be, imagine just holding a tube of toothpaste and taking the lid off.

Put your hands around the toothpaste tube, no lid on, but nothing should come out, wow! That pressure is so light and that’s the pressure that you should have when you’re gripping the golf club, the lighter the pressure, the better the feel, the better the release. So, to recap. These three fingers here, they hold the left grip, left hand position, they hold the right hand, they just cradle everything nicely together at the top of the backswing and from there the pressure should be very light. This club is not going to come out of my hands because I’m gripping so light. I know that’s the sort of fear you have, but lightness is the key to a good grip, good feel and good control. So, remember that. Good grip, light pressure. Go and work on it.

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What I want to talk about now is the position of your fingers and the pressure on your fingers on the golf grip. By now I’m sure everybody knows how we should grip the golf club, but do you know where the finger should be on the club? So, let’s show you how this should be. When you put your left hand on, the top three fingers are basically holding that club. That’s what controls the club in your left hand, those three fingers. Not the thumb or the forefinger there, those three fingers and when we put the right hand into position, the middle two fingers, the two fingers there that actually hold, so we’ve got five finger that are actually taking control.

So, the top three fingers of the left hand, [Indiscernible] [0:00:59] handed and it’s the middle two fingers there, which are basically gripping the club and those five fingers are the five fingers that should be taking total control of the grip. Now, very, very important. Your pressure must be very, very light. Quite often golfers grip their club far, far too hard and if you grip too hard, then we get this sort of tightness, this tension where there is no sort of freedom to actually swing the golf club, so the pressure needs to be very, very light and to give you an idea of how light the pressure should be, imagine just holding a tube of toothpaste and taking the lid off.

Put your hands around the toothpaste tube, no lid on, but nothing should come out, wow! That pressure is so light and that’s the pressure that you should have when you’re gripping the golf club, the lighter the pressure, the better the feel, the better the release. So, to recap. These three fingers here, they hold the left grip, left hand position, they hold the right hand, they just cradle everything nicely together at the top of the backswing and from there the pressure should be very light. This club is not going to come out of my hands because I’m gripping so light. I know that’s the sort of fear you have, but lightness is the key to a good grip, good feel and good control. So, remember that. Good grip, light pressure. Go and work on it.