Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
Now if you have decided that changing your grip from a weak or neutral style to a strong grip is beneficial to your game. Then there is the case of how to go about doing this? Changing grips is not an easy thing at all from a coach's perspective. I don't like changing people's grip. So often because it takes them quite a lot of time to get used to it and if you've been playing golf for a few years gripping the club in one particular way and we go ahead and make that change to the stronger grip. You might feel you actually get worse before you get better and you need to spend sometime on the driving range during this rather than on the golf course. One of the areas I would encourage you to stop by looking at is actually your chipping in you're picturing chipping in pitching basically just many versions of the full swing and because the many versions you know putting so much power into it you know seeing such big curvature all good or bad flights. So if you can go ahead and chip the ball for a couple of 100 times with a stronger grip you might actually feel it easier than to translate that up to the biggest shots. So when were gripping with the wedge we might be holding lower down the club.
So you can go ahead grip lower down set that grip into 2 and a half full 3 knuckles on the left hand let the right one take its lead from the left thumb and it just sits slightly on the then from this position quite unusual hand that should be don't want to start ripping the hands over yet with the chipping in the pitching just nice and gently through. Picture few balls a couple of 100 balls pitching and then develop a longer full swing gradually open up and up and don't forget when you go back to a warming up session before a round. the goal before next writing session start with your chipping and you pitching focus on getting that position right as well as you feel more confident you can go through to your Medina and then ultimately straight to your driver but I wouldn't encourage you during his standing on the 1st see how and just watch the video. So not Pete said I should do something different my hands right going to put it I'm going to try the see what happens chances are it's going to give you a bad golf shots in an awkward feeling and therefore you usually think the techniques not for you you give it up as a bad job and you'll never go back to changing your grip. So take some time to change your grip change it ultra slowly on the driving range start with the wages in the short game and then gradually feed that change up through the rest of your bag.