Why You Need This:

Does your golf grip ever feel a bit off? Do you sometimes have hooks, or slices that you can’t get rid of?

If so, you may be surprised to find out it can be something as simple as how you hold the club.

In this quick video, I will go over the correct grip and some common mistakes.

What's Covered: How the golf grip affects your spine tilt and consistency.

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 2:29

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back. Today we’re going to be talking about a very crucial piece of the swing which is your spine tilt and keeping that stable throughout the entire swing.

We’re going to talk about how the grip can actually affect this. So first let’s go over the proper grip.

When I’m doing the proper grip the line between my index finger and my thumb are going to be angled just up to the outside of my head, the right side of my head, or just inside my right shoulder, anywhere in that kind of zone is going to be OK.

So I want the index finger, that line, that crease between my index finger and my thumb to be angled that way.

Same thing with my right hand, it’s just going to be slightly more to the right.

Now as you’re seeing as I do this, it’s naturally going to tilt my spine away from the target, that’s because my right hand is lower on the club, that’s going to tilt my shoulders.

It’s also going to tilt my spine to where if I’m doing this correctly from my sternum down through my belt buckle, all the way down to the inside of my left leg is all going to be one perfect straight line there.

Then we’re going to keep this spine tilt throughout the swing.

Now what happens a lot of times when we have a really strong grip, we’re turning this hand, the left hand, much more to the right.

You’ll see that you see the logo of my glove much more, you’ll see that the index finger and the thumb are pointed way over here now.

That’s going to get me tilted too much to the right.

You’ll see that tilts my shoulders, it tilts my spine even more, and the problem this causes is when I’m tilted back this way, you can see how much closer I am to the right side of my body.

That’s going to allow me to chunk much easier, because everything is tilting away from the ball, my weight stays on my right side, and the club is going to want to ground out on the right side.

Oftentimes to compensate for this, you start to pick the ball clean.

So you know, if you feel like you pick the ball clean, you have to have it kind of teed up a little bit, you could be leaning too far this way, it could all come back to that grip.

On the opposite side of this, if we have too weak of a grip, now my right hand instead of pointing toward my right shoulder, is going to be pointing over more toward my left shoulder, and you can see as I do this, watch what happens to my right shoulder now.

It starts to tilt to my left side, I’ve lost my spine tilt, my weight is going more to the left.

Very easy to come down steep into the ball, or swing right to left across the ball. This can cause a lot of problems.

If we want to have the proper spine tilt we need to check our grip, make sure that the V in my left hand is either toward the right ear, the inside of the right shoulder, in that zone, same thing with the right hand.

It’s going to be a little bit more to the right of that, up toward the right shoulder.

That’s going to allow me to be tilted away from the target.

I can be nice and consistent in this swing, and I’m going to be able to keep that spine tilt, keep my body stable, and really make good consistent contact with all my full swings.

So work on that, check it on camera, make sure that’s correct for those of you who are struggling with your spine tilt, and I’ll see you guys soon.