Grip the Club - Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
Grip the Club - Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

In this video PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will help you understand how to take your perfect hold of the golf club. Talking you through the hand placement one hand at a time and considering how both hands work together. Following the advice contained in this video should encourage a significant improvement throughout your entire golf game as holding the club can be one of the most fundamentally important aspects of any golf set up and golf swing.

So one of the key fundamentals in the golf swing is going to be the grip. How we actually take hold of the golf club and I think there's some key points that we can learn that are going to help us create a good grip which in turn will help control the club face a lot better throughout the golf swing, and if you're going to give us a few of those now. That is absolutely right that the only link we have to the golf club and particularly the golf club face so having the hands in the right position is exactly right. So forgive me if I treat you like a beginner for a change Matt rather than a P.G.A. golf professional, but I'm going to talk you through how I would like to see a golfer build the grip in the best possible way. So if we can we're just going to swap places you on the other side and both come and get a really good view of how we're going to build this we're going to start as a right handed golfer we are going to place the left hand on first so the left hand comes down come nicely over and on top and I think the impact to see here is that the two knuckles on the outside of that left hand so the top on I can see two knuckles when he looks down we have a classic sort of understanding of a strong and a weak position so if you can just show a weak position Matt. Excellent so when you're looking down now you can probably just see outside of this hand here that would be a weak position often cause a leak to the right.

Maybe strong position if you will 3 maybe even four knuckles in this position. Now having strong and weak hand positions they don't really talk about how tight we hold the club or the pressure we hold the club. They talk about the position of the golf clubs so 2 and a half knuckles is my preference and that feels OK. Yeah now definitely one of the things I take away from that is one I've got the one you put me into a good grip I just feel that my forearm just a slight bit rotated as well weak I don't strongly feel that my forearms over rotated as I've gone through it. OK that's a good position and making sure your fingers are about about an inch down from the top of the club we sometimes see golfers that hold it too high up on the club that one lacks a bit of control so just a little bit down from there, and then we come to a couple of different options of how we can tie these hands together and ideally the hands swing together as a unit. To me we don't want to separate units I don't want to working independently so there's a 2 different schools of thought here one would be to have the fingers into linked and the fingers overlapped just a personal question you feel you grip. I overlap like with small hands a tend to find generally everyone with small hands would go for an overlap grip just seems to feel a bit more comfortable than the big interlock one and is that the same teacher up no whatever whatever is happy to the customer basically if they feel that they're comfortable with. An interlock or an overlap whichever feels the most comfortable because at the end of the day we got our hands on it but it's got to feel right now to start off with.

I play the same way as Matt does with an with an overlapping grip, but more of my clients I feel certainly beginners feel the interlinking grip is more comfortable. So it's each of the interlinking grip just a bit of a check that's such bring in a left hand down for me again as you work. The top finger of the bottom find those 2 linking together fingers wrapping around closing over actually on top you have the V's of the thumbs to be conscious of that point largely upwards towards your chin your chest you get them sort of fairly parallel to each other. We don't want one too strong one and too weak and a nice little trick I like to look at as well as from underneath I want to see that bottom finger just protruding ever so slightly. We talk about that as a trigger finger I think a lot of good players feel that when they have that trigger finger in place it always feels like the club is a little bit better supported particularly through impact, and also at the top of the swing so through to the top of the swing the index finger of the bottom hand can feel nicely supported. Pressure wise big one here and are much strangling it am I light griping it what am I doing? Great question I would argue 3 or 4 out of 10 so I would often ask Matthew to squeeze the club as tightly as he possibly can, and that would be a 10 and then feel like going to let go of the golf club and call it one and then go for a 3 or 4. A hold where you're not going to let go of the club but it doesn't create any tension in you forearms your notice that's quite relaxed. Nice you can give the club a nice waggle there and not feel it. Keep hold of the club now as I take it and I'm going to try and pull it and I want you to not let me as I pull it your grip pressure increases and that's a great feeling to have during the swing. So we start with 3 or 4 but during the swing the great pressure will tighten slightly as the club gets heavier down to impact but then it might release off again towards the finish I see a bit of a fault read in a mag call it should be a 3 or 4 out of 10 that is very light. It almost allows the club to twist and change position too much through the impact zone so 3 or 4 at a time to start building great pressure and then releasing grip pressure a little bit at the end. In terms of wearing your gloves off the golfer is wearing the glove on the top hand the gloves shouldn't wear out too quickly if it does that's probably a sign that you grips not quite ideal now you've got that idea that the stronger grip and that weaker can grip can change.

So if you made a good neutral grip for me the one we just looked at. Excellent your strong grip both hands of turned underneath to the right. Now you tell me about where do you feel that ball's going to go. Left you know it just feels like it's going straight like that I'm coming through that out to in. So we might see the hands are going to overwork in that position and maybe hook the golf ball do that again for me we're going to go to a neutral position this time and then a weak position turn them too far to the other side to far to the left side probably the opposite. Yeah over at the fence. Over the right hand side in a weak grip so if you feel that you overdraw the ball or over slice the golf ball maybe the grip is something we could be looking at as well. Definitely I think taking away from that checking your grip and understanding where it is finding the one that's comfortable for you you're going to see a lot more consistency with your ball flight. So check the grip guide and hopefully that's going to help you improve your golf.

2018-11-09

In this video PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will help you understand how to take your perfect hold of the golf club. Talking you through the hand placement one hand at a time and considering how both hands work together. Following the advice contained in this video should encourage a significant improvement throughout your entire golf game as holding the club can be one of the most fundamentally important aspects of any golf set up and golf swing.

So one of the key fundamentals in the golf swing is going to be the grip. How we actually take hold of the golf club and I think there's some key points that we can learn that are going to help us create a good grip which in turn will help control the club face a lot better throughout the golf swing, and if you're going to give us a few of those now. That is absolutely right that the only link we have to the golf club and particularly the golf club face so having the hands in the right position is exactly right. So forgive me if I treat you like a beginner for a change Matt rather than a P.G.A. golf professional, but I'm going to talk you through how I would like to see a golfer build the grip in the best possible way. So if we can we're just going to swap places you on the other side and both come and get a really good view of how we're going to build this we're going to start as a right handed golfer we are going to place the left hand on first so the left hand comes down come nicely over and on top and I think the impact to see here is that the two knuckles on the outside of that left hand so the top on I can see two knuckles when he looks down we have a classic sort of understanding of a strong and a weak position so if you can just show a weak position Matt. Excellent so when you're looking down now you can probably just see outside of this hand here that would be a weak position often cause a leak to the right.

Maybe strong position if you will 3 maybe even four knuckles in this position. Now having strong and weak hand positions they don't really talk about how tight we hold the club or the pressure we hold the club. They talk about the position of the golf clubs so 2 and a half knuckles is my preference and that feels OK. Yeah now definitely one of the things I take away from that is one I've got the one you put me into a good grip I just feel that my forearm just a slight bit rotated as well weak I don't strongly feel that my forearms over rotated as I've gone through it. OK that's a good position and making sure your fingers are about about an inch down from the top of the club we sometimes see golfers that hold it too high up on the club that one lacks a bit of control so just a little bit down from there, and then we come to a couple of different options of how we can tie these hands together and ideally the hands swing together as a unit. To me we don't want to separate units I don't want to working independently so there's a 2 different schools of thought here one would be to have the fingers into linked and the fingers overlapped just a personal question you feel you grip. I overlap like with small hands a tend to find generally everyone with small hands would go for an overlap grip just seems to feel a bit more comfortable than the big interlock one and is that the same teacher up no whatever whatever is happy to the customer basically if they feel that they're comfortable with. An interlock or an overlap whichever feels the most comfortable because at the end of the day we got our hands on it but it's got to feel right now to start off with.

I play the same way as Matt does with an with an overlapping grip, but more of my clients I feel certainly beginners feel the interlinking grip is more comfortable. So it's each of the interlinking grip just a bit of a check that's such bring in a left hand down for me again as you work. The top finger of the bottom find those 2 linking together fingers wrapping around closing over actually on top you have the V's of the thumbs to be conscious of that point largely upwards towards your chin your chest you get them sort of fairly parallel to each other. We don't want one too strong one and too weak and a nice little trick I like to look at as well as from underneath I want to see that bottom finger just protruding ever so slightly. We talk about that as a trigger finger I think a lot of good players feel that when they have that trigger finger in place it always feels like the club is a little bit better supported particularly through impact, and also at the top of the swing so through to the top of the swing the index finger of the bottom hand can feel nicely supported. Pressure wise big one here and are much strangling it am I light griping it what am I doing? Great question I would argue 3 or 4 out of 10 so I would often ask Matthew to squeeze the club as tightly as he possibly can, and that would be a 10 and then feel like going to let go of the golf club and call it one and then go for a 3 or 4. A hold where you're not going to let go of the club but it doesn't create any tension in you forearms your notice that's quite relaxed. Nice you can give the club a nice waggle there and not feel it. Keep hold of the club now as I take it and I'm going to try and pull it and I want you to not let me as I pull it your grip pressure increases and that's a great feeling to have during the swing. So we start with 3 or 4 but during the swing the great pressure will tighten slightly as the club gets heavier down to impact but then it might release off again towards the finish I see a bit of a fault read in a mag call it should be a 3 or 4 out of 10 that is very light. It almost allows the club to twist and change position too much through the impact zone so 3 or 4 at a time to start building great pressure and then releasing grip pressure a little bit at the end. In terms of wearing your gloves off the golfer is wearing the glove on the top hand the gloves shouldn't wear out too quickly if it does that's probably a sign that you grips not quite ideal now you've got that idea that the stronger grip and that weaker can grip can change.

So if you made a good neutral grip for me the one we just looked at. Excellent your strong grip both hands of turned underneath to the right. Now you tell me about where do you feel that ball's going to go. Left you know it just feels like it's going straight like that I'm coming through that out to in. So we might see the hands are going to overwork in that position and maybe hook the golf ball do that again for me we're going to go to a neutral position this time and then a weak position turn them too far to the other side to far to the left side probably the opposite. Yeah over at the fence. Over the right hand side in a weak grip so if you feel that you overdraw the ball or over slice the golf ball maybe the grip is something we could be looking at as well. Definitely I think taking away from that checking your grip and understanding where it is finding the one that's comfortable for you you're going to see a lot more consistency with your ball flight. So check the grip guide and hopefully that's going to help you improve your golf.