Why You Need This:

Get ready to learn how to use your golf grip to hit a draw.

This video is part of my “Never Slice Again” series…

…which will help you eliminate your slice once and for all.

And once you kill your slice…

You can start hitting that nice draw that you’ve been looking for…

You know…

Those compressed, hard hit right-to-left curving shots that you see the pros hit.

Also in this video, you’ll discover the common grip pitfalls that can make your slice even worse…

And you’ll get a few tips on how weakening your grip can help combat your slice.

So check out this video now…

…to knock that slice habit out for good…

And hit penetrating draws on target!

What's Covered: The best way to hold the golf club to hit a draw.

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:30

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back to our slice series where we’re eliminating the slice from your game once and for all. We’re getting that nice draw, those compressed, hard-hit, right to left curving shots.

In today’s video we’re going to go over the grip. I’m going to show you a lot of the errors I see people making as they’re doing their grip when they’re hitting a slice, and then how we can fix that.

The first thing I’ll talk about here is how we’re going to properly hold the grip in your hands. Imagine you had a golf T pinched between your index finger and your thumb like you’re going to hand it to somebody.

This is what I call the short thumb. Basically your thumb is lined up with your index finger. As we’re gripping the golf club, that’s exactly what I want to feel like as I’m holding the club with both my left hand and my right hand.

So if I am lined up straight down this way facing the camera, I’m going to feel like I’m pinching my fingers together, and my hand is going to make sure that it’s turned a little bit more on top.

The most common thing I see when people are slicing a little bit too much, the left hand is a little too underneath the club this way. That’s causing me to get over to the left, the back logo of my glove is too much down or to the left.

If I relax my hand, watch what happens to the face. It opens up, right? As we start to swing, that club face starts to open up, I swing more to the left across the ball, it really struggles to get that draw.

Same thing happens with the right hand. Actually, let’s go ahead and imagine you’re pinching that T there.

As I take my grip instead of having my hand more underneath, that T would be kind of facing over to the left. Or if I pinch it between m y forefinger and my thumb, this would be that hand too far under, and the T is pointing over to the left.

As I get more on top, now we can see that that T between my index finger and my thumb is going a little bit more to the right.

So I want to get that at least on top of the club. If anything, I can go a little bit over to the right side of the club if I want to exaggerate and really help to roll that on over. With the right hand we’re going to do the exact same thing.

So if I pinch it between my index finger and my thumb, got that nice short thumb there, a lot of times what I’ll see people doing is they get the right hand too much on top. So same thing, that our right hand is pointing over to the left.

If I relax my hand, all of a sudden the club face is wide open again. So I want to have my right hand more underneath the club, or rotated this way going clockwise, if you’re looking down at your grip.

Now that thumb and index finger are going to be more to the right, that’s going to help me to roll this face on over as I’m releasing the golf club. So those are the first couple things I would pay attention to.

As you’re setting up to the ball, next thing I would pay attention to is the forearms. If I’m more on top of the club, my hand is too far on top like we just talked about, my left hand’s too much underneath, I’m going to do the wrong way, the slice way we just went over.

Well now you can see that my forearm, my right forearm, is way above my left forearm. See how high my right forearm is? You can see my left forearm underneath it there.

Look at my shoulders also, I’m lined up way to the left with my shoulders. This is a typical over the top slice type setup.

What I want to do again, get these hands more to the right, get those hands on the club like you want to, and watch what that does to my forearms and my shoulders.

Now everything’s more underneath. My forearms are lined up correctly, my forearms are basically level with each other.

If anything, if I’m working on hitting a draw, I’m going to get that right forearm a little more underneath the club. My shoulders a little bit closed to exaggerate that, and that’ll help me to really turn that ball over from right to left.

That’s what I want you to do. I want you to go ahead and take your grip. First we’ll do the left hand, make sure it’s more on top, I have a little T between my index finger and my thumb, it would be on top of the grip or little to the right.

Right hand more under, we’re going to have our right elbow underneath, our right forearm underneath the left.

My shoulders, if anything, are going to be lined up slightly to the right, and now I’m going to go ahead, let this club face swing out to the right, roll on over a little bit to get that nice, beautiful draw.

There we go. That ball turned over maybe just a few yards right to left. Started just barely right of the target, nice little draw on there, and I just worked on getting that club face to roll on over.

If you’re still having trouble not drawing the ball, you’re still having trouble and you’re coming over the top and you’re slicing, first we’ll go back and look at some of the extreme videos we did a little earlier in this series, those will knock you out of it right away.

But if you’re still having trouble, it’s OK for a short period of time to really turn the hand more underneath this way, to where the right forearm gets underneath the left forearm.

Again, this is not trying to hit a dead straight shot, this is trying to kick the habit of hitting a fade. Once we get it down the way we want to, once we hit the right, we are able to hit some draws, we’re going to have that neutral grip.

The left hand’s going to be about like that, the right hand, if I put that T in there, is going to be about like that, and now we’ve got this nice, neutral grip where we can release the club and hit those dead straight shots.

So work on your ball flight here. If that ball starts to hook a little too much, I’m going to swing a bit more to the left and play a little mini fade until that ball goes dead straight.

If that ball starts to slice, I’m going to do the opposite. I’m going to try to play a little draw, and every swing I’m trying to eliminate, at this point in the series I’m trying to eliminate all my curvature to get a nice, straight shot on every single swing.

So good luck. I want you guys to work on this grip. Do about 50 practice swings and then hit about 50 balls, so 100 total repetitions. You guys are going to knock that slice habit once and for all.

Work hard, I’ll see you all soon.