Hold the Club Correctly – Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
Hold the Club Correctly – Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer understand that holding onto the golf club is one of the most important facets of any golfers game. Not only does the grip control the club, it also controls how straight and how far the golf ball will fly. During this video tip we will explain the correct hold on the golf club and how the hands can be placed perfectly to ensure the most accurate golf shots available.

The golfers only link to the golf ball through the club and the golfers only link to the club through hands. Stands to reason therefore that it's quite important to get your hold on that club correct yes. We spend a lot of time in lessons articles videos reading writing talking about the hold on to the club. Now a lot of golfers when they come to the range they know the grip is important yet they still don't get it right they still hold it differently we might say incorrectly due to comfort. Yes so Matt talk to me why some people find the grip comfortable and some people find what we would suggest correct that feel that's not the way they want to do it. Yes so like you said it's the only point of contact with the golf club so when we suggest sometimes making a change to the grip you may have been playing for many years it's been and you've had thousands upon thousands of golf shots with the way you held it. So any slight change toward that is going to feel uncomfortable so when changing your grip just expect to go through a little period of feeling uncomfortable and a little bit more natural you will get through that and it will be back to results from there.

I have to think it's like asking someone to hold a knife and fork differently you do it every day all the time and changing knife and fork changing holding a golf club it feels so awkward and your hands give yourself so much feedback all the time altering it can be it can be a difficult thing, and like you suggested there you almost need a period of time to adjust because as you make the changes you might get worse. Now you read a magazine you watch this video and then you make the change you go to the range it ten balls it goes worse you been it. You go back away from it but then you find that 2 years later you're still hitting the same bad golf shots over and over again. So if we could suggest any period of time what would we say 500 balls 1000 balls. Yes you are probably right 500 somewhere around that is going to start to feel pretty normal you know couple of weeks in a row. 3 practice sessions a week you're going to you know start to feel a little bit more normal with still no encouragement. I often have for people is take the golf club in the house and hold it even when you're not golfing because it's literally just the amount of times your hands go up on and off that club they will get used to it. As Matt alluded to you might have played for 10 years with an incorrect grip when we try and change it you give it 10 shots that's not going to cut it. Spending some time in the house holding it in the correct fashion remembering that light grip pressure that might help get your grip right. So Matt that just give me a couple of really good fundamentals of the changes I would like to see people make to get a good grip now? Definitely so as a right handed player myself my left hand is going to be my lead hand as I'm gripping the golf club big common fault as the club sits down and I just let my hand fall towards it now it's running up through my forearm that it's running up through the palm and I'm really going to struggle with some release that one of the things that you probably see with this is someone who you know has a glove there with quite a few holes up to the top I would imagine we've seen a few of those. So what we're going to do is try and get it a little bit more in the middle of the index finger running up towards the knuckle here on the little finger so my fingers are set in and as I go over now I'm wrapping over and it's more in my life line here. Now that's going to allow me to start releasing this golf ball back and create a lot of leverage through out there. Which is some key components to a good golf swing. Secondly my my a trail hand which is going to be my right hand is the right handed golfer as I get that one we've either got an overlap or an interlock. Myself I'm an overlap so that means my little finger just sits in between this index finger and my middle finger just sits on top and then my right hand will come on and I'm gripping yet in that sort of fashion there and one of the things you know in a good grip probably.

I don't know if you agree with me here one of the things I tend to see is someone who's got you know the old grip where it's a little bit maybe split handed sometimes, and then we struggle to see a lot of release. If we've got this good grip where we've got it more through the thing is in middle of the hand and then into here and we've got a good pressure on it about 3 or 4 what we're able to do we just can see this golf club now it's quite easy for me to rotate it got a lot of freedom with the club as well. If I'm strangling it's a little bit far apart in the old split hand when I can feel awkward to even move in that direction. So you know as far as the grip goes we're going to get it more into the fingers wrapping it over into this left hand as I look back down to it I'm going to see a couple of knuckles as I look down. Right hand comes and gets over this little V is pointing back towards my right shoulder here now and then this feeling of freedom in just letting them rotate and be nice and soft and I can feel some rotation and the club can actually feel the club head. That is that feeling I think is important as I think when people sometimes make a grip their instinct is to grab hold of it as tight as they can and a lot for a position to match point there is actually the good grip should facilitate more attention potentially more power more distance on the shot. Exactly I think a good way of getting used to this new position might be just to go to the range of the relatively short clubs and the like a 9 iron at a time pick a shot that's not full distance maybe just a 100 yards flick the ball up onto a tee peg and focus on a good grip smooth swing is to release repeat good grip smooth swings and release the hands. That would be much more suited been trying a new grip walking up to the 1st tee of the golf course trying to drive the ball down the middle it doesn't work and you give the grip up. These changes that Matt suggested and just clipping a few little shots a way piece by piece that grip is going to start to feel better more comfortable in the longer term, but good grip should improve your overall golf game if you can stick to a good quality grip throughout every club in your bag and hopefully every club in your bag will get better.

2018-11-15

PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer understand that holding onto the golf club is one of the most important facets of any golfers game. Not only does the grip control the club, it also controls how straight and how far the golf ball will fly. During this video tip we will explain the correct hold on the golf club and how the hands can be placed perfectly to ensure the most accurate golf shots available.

The golfers only link to the golf ball through the club and the golfers only link to the club through hands. Stands to reason therefore that it's quite important to get your hold on that club correct yes. We spend a lot of time in lessons articles videos reading writing talking about the hold on to the club. Now a lot of golfers when they come to the range they know the grip is important yet they still don't get it right they still hold it differently we might say incorrectly due to comfort. Yes so Matt talk to me why some people find the grip comfortable and some people find what we would suggest correct that feel that's not the way they want to do it. Yes so like you said it's the only point of contact with the golf club so when we suggest sometimes making a change to the grip you may have been playing for many years it's been and you've had thousands upon thousands of golf shots with the way you held it. So any slight change toward that is going to feel uncomfortable so when changing your grip just expect to go through a little period of feeling uncomfortable and a little bit more natural you will get through that and it will be back to results from there.

I have to think it's like asking someone to hold a knife and fork differently you do it every day all the time and changing knife and fork changing holding a golf club it feels so awkward and your hands give yourself so much feedback all the time altering it can be it can be a difficult thing, and like you suggested there you almost need a period of time to adjust because as you make the changes you might get worse. Now you read a magazine you watch this video and then you make the change you go to the range it ten balls it goes worse you been it. You go back away from it but then you find that 2 years later you're still hitting the same bad golf shots over and over again. So if we could suggest any period of time what would we say 500 balls 1000 balls. Yes you are probably right 500 somewhere around that is going to start to feel pretty normal you know couple of weeks in a row. 3 practice sessions a week you're going to you know start to feel a little bit more normal with still no encouragement. I often have for people is take the golf club in the house and hold it even when you're not golfing because it's literally just the amount of times your hands go up on and off that club they will get used to it. As Matt alluded to you might have played for 10 years with an incorrect grip when we try and change it you give it 10 shots that's not going to cut it. Spending some time in the house holding it in the correct fashion remembering that light grip pressure that might help get your grip right. So Matt that just give me a couple of really good fundamentals of the changes I would like to see people make to get a good grip now? Definitely so as a right handed player myself my left hand is going to be my lead hand as I'm gripping the golf club big common fault as the club sits down and I just let my hand fall towards it now it's running up through my forearm that it's running up through the palm and I'm really going to struggle with some release that one of the things that you probably see with this is someone who you know has a glove there with quite a few holes up to the top I would imagine we've seen a few of those. So what we're going to do is try and get it a little bit more in the middle of the index finger running up towards the knuckle here on the little finger so my fingers are set in and as I go over now I'm wrapping over and it's more in my life line here. Now that's going to allow me to start releasing this golf ball back and create a lot of leverage through out there. Which is some key components to a good golf swing. Secondly my my a trail hand which is going to be my right hand is the right handed golfer as I get that one we've either got an overlap or an interlock. Myself I'm an overlap so that means my little finger just sits in between this index finger and my middle finger just sits on top and then my right hand will come on and I'm gripping yet in that sort of fashion there and one of the things you know in a good grip probably.

I don't know if you agree with me here one of the things I tend to see is someone who's got you know the old grip where it's a little bit maybe split handed sometimes, and then we struggle to see a lot of release. If we've got this good grip where we've got it more through the thing is in middle of the hand and then into here and we've got a good pressure on it about 3 or 4 what we're able to do we just can see this golf club now it's quite easy for me to rotate it got a lot of freedom with the club as well. If I'm strangling it's a little bit far apart in the old split hand when I can feel awkward to even move in that direction. So you know as far as the grip goes we're going to get it more into the fingers wrapping it over into this left hand as I look back down to it I'm going to see a couple of knuckles as I look down. Right hand comes and gets over this little V is pointing back towards my right shoulder here now and then this feeling of freedom in just letting them rotate and be nice and soft and I can feel some rotation and the club can actually feel the club head. That is that feeling I think is important as I think when people sometimes make a grip their instinct is to grab hold of it as tight as they can and a lot for a position to match point there is actually the good grip should facilitate more attention potentially more power more distance on the shot. Exactly I think a good way of getting used to this new position might be just to go to the range of the relatively short clubs and the like a 9 iron at a time pick a shot that's not full distance maybe just a 100 yards flick the ball up onto a tee peg and focus on a good grip smooth swing is to release repeat good grip smooth swings and release the hands. That would be much more suited been trying a new grip walking up to the 1st tee of the golf course trying to drive the ball down the middle it doesn't work and you give the grip up. These changes that Matt suggested and just clipping a few little shots a way piece by piece that grip is going to start to feel better more comfortable in the longer term, but good grip should improve your overall golf game if you can stick to a good quality grip throughout every club in your bag and hopefully every club in your bag will get better.