Golf Grip
What is the Proper Way to Hold a Golf Club?
The golf club is the only connection you have with the golf ball and as such a very important tool in your game. Players with high end equipment, perfect stances, and flawless postures are often felled by an improper grip of the golf club.
Holding the club is such a basic element that it is easy to overlook by new players or even experienced players, who may have simply developed a bad habit. There are three standard ways to hold the club; the interlocking, overlapping, and the ten finger grip. Using the interlocking technique, the player will wrap their fingers around the club until the little finger of the target hand is over the index finger of the trail hand. The target hand is the hand opposite of the dominant hand. So, for example, if the player is right handed, the target hand would be the left hand. The overlapping technique is similar to the interlocking except that the pinky finger of the target hand and index finger of the trail hand overlaps. The ten finger technique is rarely used anymore and is thought to be a throw back to golf’s origins. Also called the baseball technique, the player’s fingers simply meet and do not interlock or overlap.
The Proper Way To Grip Your Club
The game of golf is a very personal one and the player is responsible for many of the decisions concerning game play. One of these decisions happens to be one of the most important factors in playing golf. The way the player grips the golf club has a lot to do with the performance of the player’s swing and how well the ball is hit. There are three common ways to grip a club. Each of these methods contains their own benefits. Only the player can decide on which one is the best.