Using The Grip To Maintain Relaxed Arms During The Golf Swing (Video) - by Peter Finch
Using The Grip To Maintain Relaxed Arms During The Golf Swing (Video) - by Peter Finch

When trying to maintain very relaxed arms during the golf swing, the first point to start out is the grip. What you are doing with your grip will affect your wrist, will affect your forearms and then we will feed back into the rest of the body. So keeping a very, very relaxed grip when you are playing shots will help keep the arms relaxed as well. If you are gripping on very, very tightly your forearms will contract as a result. So allowing yourselves to be nice and relaxed with the grip will certainly help you move your arms much, much faster and a simple way to think about this, is if you use the 1 to 10 drill, 1 to 10 drill is fantastic, normally people do use this stroke. With the very first shot, if you imagine a grip pressure scale 10 being the strongest, 1 being the lightest. If you start off with your first shot gripping the club at a ten and just trying to hit, if you got a wedge right, just try and hit say a 50 odd shot.

If you grip on as tight as possible, so it will be a 10 and you try and hit that shot and you will feel just how tense the arms are, just how tense the body is. On the next shot, drop down to a nine, then to an eight, then to seven, then to a six. If you don’t want to be that precise you can just do it one to five, but whatever you do use a scale to determine the different grip pressures. You will tend to find that most people hit their best shots when they are gripping on around the three on the one to ten scale or around the two on the one to five scale, but give it a go, try and feel how relaxed your arm becomes when you are gripping lightly and then hopefully you will see a little bit more speed within the actual game but also a little bit more control because you are not going to be gripping on to dear life. 2016-09-01

When trying to maintain very relaxed arms during the golf swing, the first point to start out is the grip. What you are doing with your grip will affect your wrist, will affect your forearms and then we will feed back into the rest of the body. So keeping a very, very relaxed grip when you are playing shots will help keep the arms relaxed as well. If you are gripping on very, very tightly your forearms will contract as a result. So allowing yourselves to be nice and relaxed with the grip will certainly help you move your arms much, much faster and a simple way to think about this, is if you use the 1 to 10 drill, 1 to 10 drill is fantastic, normally people do use this stroke. With the very first shot, if you imagine a grip pressure scale 10 being the strongest, 1 being the lightest. If you start off with your first shot gripping the club at a ten and just trying to hit, if you got a wedge right, just try and hit say a 50 odd shot.

If you grip on as tight as possible, so it will be a 10 and you try and hit that shot and you will feel just how tense the arms are, just how tense the body is. On the next shot, drop down to a nine, then to an eight, then to seven, then to a six. If you don’t want to be that precise you can just do it one to five, but whatever you do use a scale to determine the different grip pressures.

You will tend to find that most people hit their best shots when they are gripping on around the three on the one to ten scale or around the two on the one to five scale, but give it a go, try and feel how relaxed your arm becomes when you are gripping lightly and then hopefully you will see a little bit more speed within the actual game but also a little bit more control because you are not going to be gripping on to dear life.