Making The Change To Your Golf Grip (Video) - by Pete Styles
Making The Change To Your Golf Grip (Video) - by Pete Styles

Now if you weighed the whole of pros and cons of the weak grip, the strong grip, and you decided that a strong grip is going to be something that’s going to benefit your game, let's go ahead and strengthen that grip gradually till we get to a point where you are comfortable with it and it’s producing the desired effect. And I use the term ‘gradually’ because there's no reason to say that we have to go from a good neutral grip to an ultra-strong grip all in one go.

Like I suggested, you can do this gradually, just millimeter by millimeter, taking your top hand, for me that’s my left hand and just turning it slightly to the right. Position my right hand slightly to the right, hit a few shots, and see what the difference in the ball flight is. If I am not happy, I can go again, further around this time more to the right. My right hand will follow more to the right as well, a few more shots and again bit by bit by bit, piece, by piece, I can strengthen my grip until I get the desired effect. Now the desired effect for you might be that you fade or slice the ball less. The desired effect might be that you draw the ball more that your ball flight is lower and that the ball flight is a little bit further, but when you are ready to sort of commit to that change and you’ve moved it gradually and then feel that you’ve hit the ball as you would like, you can then lock your hands in that position and say "okay that’s how I'm now going to grip it." It's then a case of practicing that enough on the driving range or practice ground ideally until it becomes ingrain and consistent. It would be quite awkward to go out onto the first tee, particularly the first tee in a competition and have to think about the position of your hands and fiddling around with your hands. I would much rather you got this process nailed on in practice on the range where making a mistake is less important. You know, you can hit the odd hook or the odd slice or the odd fiddle grip shots and it doesn’t really become too much of a concern, but once you’ve committed to this change and you’ve got your hands in a good position, you feel like your hands are quite strong. You will see the club face is coming through in a more closed or left ward position as you hit through the golf ball, you are going to start to hit that lower [Indiscernible] [0:02:06] ball flight enough on the driving range till it becomes consistent, it becomes natural and comfortable, and then take it out to the golf course. First few times on the golf course, do a few practice rounds, a couple of spare balls in your pocket and if you don’t hit a great shot, dock another one down, have another go, and then once you’ve done a few practice rounds, then build into competition. So driving range first, then practice rounds on the course, and then competition on the golf course. And hopefully following those steps will encourage you to make the correct grip change gradually on the range before you take it on to the golf course. 2016-05-04

Now if you weighed the whole of pros and cons of the weak grip, the strong grip, and you decided that a strong grip is going to be something that’s going to benefit your game, let's go ahead and strengthen that grip gradually till we get to a point where you are comfortable with it and it’s producing the desired effect. And I use the term ‘gradually’ because there's no reason to say that we have to go from a good neutral grip to an ultra-strong grip all in one go.

Like I suggested, you can do this gradually, just millimeter by millimeter, taking your top hand, for me that’s my left hand and just turning it slightly to the right. Position my right hand slightly to the right, hit a few shots, and see what the difference in the ball flight is. If I am not happy, I can go again, further around this time more to the right. My right hand will follow more to the right as well, a few more shots and again bit by bit by bit, piece, by piece, I can strengthen my grip until I get the desired effect.

Now the desired effect for you might be that you fade or slice the ball less. The desired effect might be that you draw the ball more that your ball flight is lower and that the ball flight is a little bit further, but when you are ready to sort of commit to that change and you’ve moved it gradually and then feel that you’ve hit the ball as you would like, you can then lock your hands in that position and say “okay that’s how I'm now going to grip it.” It's then a case of practicing that enough on the driving range or practice ground ideally until it becomes ingrain and consistent.

It would be quite awkward to go out onto the first tee, particularly the first tee in a competition and have to think about the position of your hands and fiddling around with your hands. I would much rather you got this process nailed on in practice on the range where making a mistake is less important. You know, you can hit the odd hook or the odd slice or the odd fiddle grip shots and it doesn’t really become too much of a concern, but once you’ve committed to this change and you’ve got your hands in a good position, you feel like your hands are quite strong.

You will see the club face is coming through in a more closed or left ward position as you hit through the golf ball, you are going to start to hit that lower [Indiscernible] [0:02:06] ball flight enough on the driving range till it becomes consistent, it becomes natural and comfortable, and then take it out to the golf course.

First few times on the golf course, do a few practice rounds, a couple of spare balls in your pocket and if you don’t hit a great shot, dock another one down, have another go, and then once you’ve done a few practice rounds, then build into competition. So driving range first, then practice rounds on the course, and then competition on the golf course. And hopefully following those steps will encourage you to make the correct grip change gradually on the range before you take it on to the golf course.