Which is the best grip position: neutral, weak or strong? (Video) - by Pete Styles
Which is the best grip position: neutral, weak or strong? (Video) - by Pete Styles

Now as many golfers as you’ve got on the PGA tour, you’ve a different amount of grips because every single player, doesn’t quite grip the club in exactly the same fashion. They might follow some similarities but there’s always a slight difference. Now, when we look at grips, we generally just break them down into three different categories, we have neutral and then we have weak or strong. So within every different player’s grip, they normally fall within one of those three parameters; neutral, weak, or strong.

Now neutral is going to sound like it’s going to be the best grip to have for most golfers. A neutral grip is more consistently going to deliver a square club face. Some players get away with playing with a strong grip as well, but very rarely will a neutral -- sorry, very rarely will a weak grip actually be better than neutral or strong. So a neutral grip is something that’s generally defined by having tunicles on the top hand visible, and then bottom hand positioned so the V between the thumb and the fore finger here runs up pretty much towards the chin or the right ear, somewhere in that side of the face, the right side of the face. So a weak grip, is having the left hand too far round and under so one knuckle or no knuckles and then a right hand that’s also too far over this way as well. And a weaker grip often results in an opened club face leaving the ball too far to the right hand side for the right handed golfer. Now for a lot of golfers they’re leaving the face open knocking it to the right side, that’s a bad shot they hit already. So a weaker grip is definitely not going to be something that we would encourage for many golfers. But a stronger grip, actually having two and a half maybe even three knuckles on the back of the top hand and therefore the bottom hand position more rounded to the right, and releasing and turning over and closing the club face that’s often something that we would encourage people to do. So like I said it’s kind of a neutral or a slightly stronger version of the grip is often the most common grips that you would see from good players and also top players but very few go weak. So next time you’re making your grip, just consider, are you neutral, strong, or weak and be careful of having a weak grip. 2015-03-27

Now as many golfers as you’ve got on the PGA tour, you’ve a different amount of grips because every single player, doesn’t quite grip the club in exactly the same fashion. They might follow some similarities but there’s always a slight difference. Now, when we look at grips, we generally just break them down into three different categories, we have neutral and then we have weak or strong. So within every different player’s grip, they normally fall within one of those three parameters; neutral, weak, or strong.

Now neutral is going to sound like it’s going to be the best grip to have for most golfers. A neutral grip is more consistently going to deliver a square club face. Some players get away with playing with a strong grip as well, but very rarely will a neutral — sorry, very rarely will a weak grip actually be better than neutral or strong. So a neutral grip is something that’s generally defined by having tunicles on the top hand visible, and then bottom hand positioned so the V between the thumb and the fore finger here runs up pretty much towards the chin or the right ear, somewhere in that side of the face, the right side of the face.

So a weak grip, is having the left hand too far round and under so one knuckle or no knuckles and then a right hand that’s also too far over this way as well. And a weaker grip often results in an opened club face leaving the ball too far to the right hand side for the right handed golfer. Now for a lot of golfers they’re leaving the face open knocking it to the right side, that’s a bad shot they hit already. So a weaker grip is definitely not going to be something that we would encourage for many golfers.

But a stronger grip, actually having two and a half maybe even three knuckles on the back of the top hand and therefore the bottom hand position more rounded to the right, and releasing and turning over and closing the club face that’s often something that we would encourage people to do. So like I said it’s kind of a neutral or a slightly stronger version of the grip is often the most common grips that you would see from good players and also top players but very few go weak. So next time you’re making your grip, just consider, are you neutral, strong, or weak and be careful of having a weak grip.