As previously mentioned, there are lots of different ways to grip the golf club and if you look at PJ Tours, if you look at the very best place in the world, it’s quite obvious to see that people use strong grips, people use weak grips, people use neutral grips. This isn’t a video which says, this is what you should do. But this video will explain a little bit more about what will happen if you get a more of a neutral golf grip and the benefits that that will give.

As previously mentioned, we know that the club moves around the body on a path in an inclined plane and that clubface is always associated with your target like as it moves around the body. When the clubface gets too strong, it starts to point down the ground, going back up at the sky at the top and in relation to your target, this clubface is pointing a long way off to the left-hand side.

Now, what this really means? What this really means if you want to hit a straight ball flight is that you have to make compensations coming into impact. Now, you can make consistent compensations as many golf pros do. If you have a look at Dustin Johnson who has a very strong clubface at the top of his swing, he makes compensations coming down into impact but he does it very consistently. Not many golfers have that ability to do that type of consistent compensation as they come into impact. So having a more neutral grip will allow you to have a more neutral clubface. A more neutral clubface at the top whereas matching pretty much the back of the left arm and the back of the left hand, will allow the club to move down and turn through into impact and rotate without having to be held off or rotating more if you’d have a weak grip for example.

So the difference between a strong grip and a weak grip which you want to be looking for. With a strong grip, you’ll generally see people with the left hand, which is too much on top of the club. So as you look down the V created by the thumb and the forefinger pointing well out past our right-hand side. And when you have a look at the knuckles, possible four knuckles that you’ll see. Then the right hand sits underneath and you cannot see any knuckles and this would be a super strong clubface coming into impact.

Now, a neutral golf grip, all you want to be doing is running the grip from the base of the little finger, through the middle of the index finger on the left hand for a right-handed golfer, and then the hand wraps over, and the V created by the thumb and the forefinger here points up towards the right shoulder. And as you look down the grip, you want to be seeing about two and a half knuckles. As the right hand goes on, it covers the left thumb with the right – the lifeline of the right hand, sits on top with that V pointing up more towards the right chest area. And in that position, this will give you that neutral golf grip which will allow you to move the club around the body without getting that clubface in the closed position. It will allow you to move around in a more neutral manner and hopefully make it easy to hit straighter shots.