Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "The Perfect Golf Grip"

Do you know where you’re supposed to (and not supposed to) feel pressure in the grip?

If you’ve been focusing on the wrong aspects of the grip…

...you’re definitely losing speed and lag in the swing!

Today, I’m going to show you in detail what you can’t do with your left hand in the grip...

...how to properly hinge the golf club....

...and an important tip on the placement of your left thumb (revealed at the 6 minute mark)...

...that’ll allow you to grip that club perfectly…

...so that you’ll have all the speed and lag in the swing you need to blast the ball!

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 8:47

Video Transcription:

Clay Ballard: All right, so in this video we’re going to talk about exactly what the perfect golf grip is, where the pressure points are going to be in your hands. Some real keys to lining it up correctly, and I’m going to go into a lot of detail on this.

Let’s first start out with the left hand, and probably the most common piece of instruction that I see, and really it doesn’t matter to me. I want the grip to be in the fingers.

I don’t mind if you have a really strong grip, meaning that you can have this hand turn way to the right. I don’t mind if you have a weaker grip.

There’s been great players that have played with both of those. What you can’t have happen, is you can’t have the grip above this red triangle which is kind of the hinge point there.

You notice that on the ball of my hand, and you’ll see these pictures on the screen, but on the pad of my hand that’s on the bottom of my hand, opposite of my thumb, where that red triangle is, that two black lines that are in my hand are running below that triangle.

Now as I set up to this golf club, if I go ahead and set it down to my golf ball. If I was to hold it with my right hand just kind of holding the club in place, as I set my left hand on there, that club, or the side of the club is going to be in that black palm.

You could also think about making a hook with your fingers like this, and putting that down on the club and the club would rest, the bottom of the club would rest in that hook.

Now when I do that, you’ll notice that that red triangle is on top of the grip. The point of that triangle I feel like is almost like a pivot point. It’s not really pivoting there, but that’s what it feels like to me.

That’s going to be a hinge point for my club. So the tip of the triangle’s on the tip of the club. The grip is in my fingers. Now, I feel like I can really get some speed and moment with this.

The reason for this is, I want to be able to hinge the club up and down to get some lag. So I have to be able to move my wrists this way with the club.

If I get the club running too much up through the palms, so now the grip if I was to hold the club there, the grip would be covering that red triangle as I take my grip. Now I can’t hinge the club very much.

You’re going to get a lot less speed if you can’t hinge the club. So you can make a hook, put the club in it, the tip of the triangle is on top of the grip, and now I’m in a really powerful position to where I can hit this ball nice and long, and straight at the same time.

All right, so piece number two, you notice that there’s a couple of green pieces here. Two green squares in my glove that are on my pinkie and my ring finger of my left hand.

That’s where I’m going to feel the pressure in my left hand. I don’t want to feel the pressure in my left thumb pushing that grip out.

So if you’re a caster, if you start to lose some lag from the top and you’re throwing that club, your left thumb and your right thumb and index finger, those ones that are in red on my right hand, are pushing that club.

As I push with that thumb here, that’s kicking the club out. Kind of imagine the thumb doing this with my right hand. As I push with that left thumb, that’s kicking the club out.

I want to feel like in the transition of the golf swing, those are almost doing nothing so that I could actually increase lag in the downswing.

I have to be going this way with the club in the downswing if I want to have lag. If I’m pushing that way, my lag is dead right away.

So think about feeling the pressure in these two green squares on your left hand. Now, as I start down, I’m able to retain that and as I come through the shot, the momentum of this club swinging out, I’m going to feel that pressure in these bottom two fingers of the left hand.

I’m going to feel like I could almost take the club, grip it without my thumb and my next finger, just my pinkie and my ring finger, and I could make a pretty good swing with my left hand.

With my right hand, I want to feel it in the pinkie finger there, too. It’s not that in reality the other fingers won’t be doing something, it’s that it’s way too much in the thumbs and index fingers for most players.

So in a nutshell, feel the pressure in your pinkie fingers to keep it away from the thumbs, and that’s going to help you to get a whole heck of a lot more lag.

Little tiny bit left, nice little fade there. All those were in a few feet of each other, and hit pretty solidly.

Now lastly here, we’re going to talk about this green line between my thumb and my index finger on my left hand, and the two circles there.

I care the least about these two circles, I care a lot about this one line here. So as I look down at my grip as I hold the club with my left hand, if I hinge that club up, I want to see my thumb and my index finger cinched together. I want to see that green line touching.

If I let my thumb go down the club shaft, or over on the right side of the club shaft like this, like I was holding it like a baseball bat, those two lines come apart and now you can see they’re not going to have control of the club.

That’s a huge deal. The reason for that is, if I have that baseball-type grip where my thumb and my index finger are apart, as I swing to the top, all this momentum is moving this way with my club, it’s going to slide between the thumb and the index finger.

It’s going to slide between there, and all of a sudden I’m going to lose stability of the club at the top of the swing. That’s one part you don’t want to lose stability of the club.

I want to feel like I know exactly where that club is when I go to the top of the swing. So cinch those two fingers together.

You could also think of it as – let me grab a tee here real quick out of my golf bag – but I’m going to feel like I am pinching a tee between my thumb and my index finger.

So if I slid a tee between my thumb and index finger, it would be just like that. I could also grip the tee like I was going to hand it to you like this and my thumb and my index finger would be together there. That’s the same feeling you want to have.

Same thing on your right hand. I call it a short thumb because a long thumb means that my thumb is going down the grip, sliding down it, and now that green line is separated there.

So pinch the thumb and the forefingers together, that’s going to get the right hand, the left hand, everything really secure in there.

It’s like you’re sucking all the air out of the grip and now you have a ton of coverage on the golf grip here.

I’m going to go ahead and set up to it again. You’ll see these lines are touching in my hands. If you look down, those two green circles, I’d like to see those so that I know that I have a strong enough grip when I grip the club.

If I’m turned too far under like this, or my hand’s turned too far that way, I lose sight of those two green circles. That’s the least important out of anything I’ve gone over here, but it still helps to have a little bit turned to the right, that way I can release the club a little easier.

So here I have my great grip. I have my proper pressure points throughout the swing, and I’m going to hit a nice, clean shot here. All right, hit a nice solid shot there.

Now, I’m going to be honest with you. Everything we just talked about isn’t going to work at all unless we’re releasing at the proper place.

So if I’m hitting at the golf ball on the ground, I’m trying to hit at this golf ball down here, I’m going to release my club early. I’m going to lose some lag.

I’m going to have my hands over top of the golf ball, or even behind the golf ball instead of in front of the golf ball where I want them, and I’m going to have these red pressure points take over.

My index finger, my thumb, they’re going to start pushing that club through contact every single time.

The proper way to do this actually to release at a golf ball in front of the one you want  to hit. I call this the Straight Line Release in my Top Speed Golf System.

What I want to be doing, is feeling those green pressure points and having everything to release in front.

Now if I’m releasing in front like that, all of a sudden, these green pressure points make a lot of sense. If I’m releasing at the golf ball, the red pressure points make a lot of sense. We don’t want to do the red ones.

So it’s very important that once you finish this video, now that we’ve got the grip and we’ve talked a lot about the grip, to go over to the Straight Line Release and get that down.

Once you put both of those together, now I have the good grip, I understand the grip, but I also understand how the momentum of my swing is going to allow that to happen.

If I’m hitting at the golf ball, it’s really just never going to happen for me. There we go. Again, another nice, really solid shot.

I felt like there I just swung at the golf ball in front and I let the contact with the ball I was hitting just happen automatically.

So head on over to the Instruction tab at the top of the home page. Click on the Top Speed Golf System, then start working through the Straight Line Release.

That’s going to make a world of difference in your golf game, and it’s going help you to match up the perfect grip with a really good swing through contact.

I’ll see you there.