Relax Your Grip Pressure In Your Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
Relax Your Grip Pressure In Your Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

There is one trait that you will see common amongst most really good ball strikers, and that’s grip pressure and particularly a relaxed grip pressure. So most of the good ball strikers they might be big strong guys on tour, they might be ripping the ball out of that 200 yards, but most of the time, you will see this light relaxed grip pressure. And I would say you will see it but maybe you won’t see it, but you have got to trust me that it’s there and in your own game, you got to feel that it’s there.

So you have big player like O’Neills, great ball striker and a big tall fellow, massive hands but over that golf ball his grip pressure will be super, super light maybe just 3 or 4 out of 10 at the start of a swing. Now during the swing, his grip pressure will start to increase a little bit, building, building, comes down towards impact maybe quite a tight grip pressure impact, releases the golf club through and I would say tight, because you know that clubs is going to hit the ground, that club is going to hit the ball, it might not hit it, bang in the sense, might twist the face if you are not holding on to it, there is a risk that you don’t get the power, you don’t get the control of the clubface maybe even you let the club go. Ran to a finish position and relax at the end. So I am not advocating holding the club 2 or 3 out of 10 the whole way through this swing, of course not. 2 or 3 out of 10 in the start, letting the club head sort of pull away from your hands, letting your grip pressure build, whipping it through releasing through quickly to a nice balance follow through, let your grip pressure relax off at the end. And if you can bring in that nice relaxed grip pressure, you should start to feel like you can really whip that club head through a little bit more aggressively through the impact phase, therefore creating the speed and the power that you need to be a really good ball striker. And you will know how too much grip pressure at the start of that swing will look quite rigid, quite unbalanced, quite tense during the swing, and then as they hit through the ball, you won’t have the fluidity that they need to be a really good crisp ball striker. So remember, relaxed grip pressure for better ball striking. 2016-10-17

There is one trait that you will see common amongst most really good ball strikers, and that’s grip pressure and particularly a relaxed grip pressure. So most of the good ball strikers they might be big strong guys on tour, they might be ripping the ball out of that 200 yards, but most of the time, you will see this light relaxed grip pressure. And I would say you will see it but maybe you won’t see it, but you have got to trust me that it’s there and in your own game, you got to feel that it’s there.

So you have big player like O’Neills, great ball striker and a big tall fellow, massive hands but over that golf ball his grip pressure will be super, super light maybe just 3 or 4 out of 10 at the start of a swing. Now during the swing, his grip pressure will start to increase a little bit, building, building, comes down towards impact maybe quite a tight grip pressure impact, releases the golf club through and I would say tight, because you know that clubs is going to hit the ground, that club is going to hit the ball, it might not hit it, bang in the sense, might twist the face if you are not holding on to it, there is a risk that you don’t get the power, you don’t get the control of the clubface maybe even you let the club go. Ran to a finish position and relax at the end.

So I am not advocating holding the club 2 or 3 out of 10 the whole way through this swing, of course not. 2 or 3 out of 10 in the start, letting the club head sort of pull away from your hands, letting your grip pressure build, whipping it through releasing through quickly to a nice balance follow through, let your grip pressure relax off at the end. And if you can bring in that nice relaxed grip pressure, you should start to feel like you can really whip that club head through a little bit more aggressively through the impact phase, therefore creating the speed and the power that you need to be a really good ball striker. And you will know how too much grip pressure at the start of that swing will look quite rigid, quite unbalanced, quite tense during the swing, and then as they hit through the ball, you won’t have the fluidity that they need to be a really good crisp ball striker. So remember, relaxed grip pressure for better ball striking.