Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Are You Holding The Golf Club Correctly?! - Building The Perfect Grip"

In today's lesson...

I'll show you exactly how I grip the golf club...

...and why it DOES matter how you grip it.

Including why you may be making it tougher on yourself to create lag if you're doing one thing in particular.

I'll even show you what you can do with your grip to add or take away distance when you're between clubs.

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 10:31

Video Transcription:

Now. I've got an awesome video for you. So many times and people make a great video. You never know exactly how to hold your hands on there. Well, I won't tell you the exact kind of grip I'm using, the exact kind of glove that I'm using, and show you how to mark this up so you can match it up and you can get an identical replica of exactly what I'm doing with my grip so you can feel how I'd recommend gripping the club.

 

So let's get into the first thing, which would be the knuckles. Now, a lot of times you'll hear, I want to see two knuckles on my left hand, three knuckles. But there's all kinds of problems with this. For example, I'm going to keep my grip exactly the same. If I lower my hands, I can see all four knuckles.

 

If I raise my hands, I can't see any knuckles. So it depends on how your position, where your ball position is, where your head is. All that just gets too hard. Let's get rid of that once and for all. What I've done here is I've drawn a red line on my glove and a red line on this script.

 

Now, a few weeks ago, Golf Pride called me and they said, Clay, I love your videos. We love to support the channel. We have these brand new golf pride mct grips, which, mcc excuse me, which are different colors. So you can buy any any color that you have and match up your favorite team with the color of the grip. I'm a Kentucky Wildcat guy, so I went with Wildcat Blue.

 

If you're not a Wildcat fan, hey, sorry, but that's what it is. So on top of that, they wanted to pay me quite a bit of money to feature this grip in a video. And I thought to myself, Where you been my whole life? I loved I do grip videos all the time. I love for you to pay me money every single time I make a video.

 

But all jokes aside, thanks for Golf Pride. And if you're a foot joy, they're not sponsoring me. But hey, hit me up. I'll be glad to take your money, too. So what I've done here is I've drawn up the script to make a perfect replica and there's a perforation. This is a foot, joy. Whether soft glove. So if you want to replicate this identically, I have different markings on here.

 

I'll show you the perforations on the right side of the thumb. My right. If I grip down the club and I get into what I would consider to be a neutral grip, that should make a line with the outside of this logo. So now there I have my thumb perfectly in line with this grip, and that's what it should feel like to me.

 

You'll notice that my thumb and index finger are synched together, and then from there I'm going to keep that same alignment and just go to the back of the grip like it would be normally. So if I was to have a weaker grip that would be on this side, that line would go to the left of this line.

 

It's a little harder to draw a ball from there. If I had a stronger grip, it would be a little bit more on this side. Yes, I would see more knuckles. But again, that's confusing depending on how you're holding your arms. I think this is the perfect way to see if you're lined up perfectly. Now I'm just going to slot it back on the grip from there and then let's go ahead and hit a nice little draw here.

 

So draw is kind of my stock shot. Let's go and get one on the board. Then we'll talk about how different grip changes can affect this shot shape a little bit of a ball and it really warmed up today as a draw to eight a little bit to the left. That's all right. I'll make a few more swings get loosened up and we'll talk about how this changes with with your alignment of your grip.

 

So the next thing I'm gonna to talk about here is about open up my hand again with this Joey glove. There's a little triangle here, and I've drawn a line from the tip of that triangle on this glove. So you can recreate this at home. And it goes all the way down. And you see it cuts down about a third into this grade piece here.

 

And another one that kind of is at the end of the butt cap where the grip would be finishing up. So if I take my alignment correctly and I take my normal grip, open my hand, it will basically fit in that little slot like that should look just like this. So if you want to pause this video, draw the lines on there exactly what this looks like.

 

You can do that. Now, the reason that that's important is because if I get it too much across my hand like that, too much in the fingers, it's really going to be loose. It's going to flop around in my hand. So if I go too much this way, it flops around my hand. If I go too much this way and it gets too much in the palm, kind of splitting these grade pads in here versus like that, it's like that.

 

Then it's going to be very difficult to get any lag in the downswing. You really can't talk your wrist, so I have to grip it across my hands enough to where I can get lag and then release the club out in front. So what we're doing here is we're putting the club in a position that we can use the wrist properly.

 

Now, if I want to hit one a little bit shorter, let's say I'm between clubs. I showed you my standard grip there and let's say the standard one goes to 8 to 10. Now, if I wanted to go maybe a little bit shorter than that, but I didn't want to go all the way to say a seven iron.

 

This is a six iron. What I could do is I could take that that blue butt cap that's on there, and I could slide that off my hand about an inch. So now I've got about an inch of grip between where the butt cap used to end and where it ends now. So essentially I've choked up about an inch on this club and it's really easy to see with this blue cap how much is that hanging off the hand there?

 

Now, that's going to take about a half a club off of this. So it's going to now go between, what, a six iron? A seven iron would go. I'm guessing this should go if I hit it nice and solid somewhere around 200 yards. Let's go and give that a whirl. There we go. Hit that one really nice and solid.

 

And there we go. 201 So it took about ten yards off by choking up on it. I could also go the other way and now take this blue cap, bring it all the way up to where my pinky is, almost covering it. And now I've made the club about a half inch longer. If I had to go a little bit longer than 210.

 

So let's say again, I'm between a six iron, a five iron, and I just want a little extra. I'm going to go ahead and make the club a little bit longer. It's almost out of my hand. I don't particularly like this most of the time because you can lose a little bit of accuracy, but I'll do it for demonstration purposes here.

 

Different people may like this better or worse, but I can probably get closer to that 215 distance, maybe even 220 with this longer club. Now not the most solid strike and I went to oh two. So again, if you don't hit it solid, it's not going to go the distance that you want. And that's kind of where I lose a little bit of accuracy when I slot it down to the end like this.

 

But let me go ahead and hit one more this for demonstration purposes to show you that it can go a little bit farther if you do it this way. There we go to 11. I just don't have it in me today. Not a huge fan of lengthening the grip, but definitely if you want to go between clubs, choke up on a little bit.

 

Now the green lines on the bottom of my hand or where I feel like this club is being leveraged. So if I take this up like this, if I was going to do a fishing rod and cast this out, or I could imagine if I turn this club sideways, so I group it sideways. And I said, okay, I'm going to now hammer so my hands turn sideways and I'm hammering this into the ball.

 

That will be a very strong grip, would be very behind the golf ball. That's kind of the motion I'm feeling like. But then at the same time as I'm doing that hammering, making the logo of my glove face toward the target like this, when you put that hammering motion and that logo motion toward the target, you put those together.

 

That's what the pros are doing to get the shaft lean and to release this club head in front. Now, the last thing I want to do there is take my index finger and my thumb on my right hand and push that. I don't want to flip this club like this again. I want to hammer it this way and at the same time roll my hands to where the logo is now pointing toward the target.

 

I do those together and now I have a lot of shaft lean and get a nice tight little draw on it. I'm really going hit a lot of solid shots. So when you mark up your glove, mark these green lines at the bottom feel like those are pulling down on this grip, like almost like and take this little blue cap here on the end of it.

 

And I was going to pop that off. I was going to yank down on that. And if I go into the golf posture, that would be me doing this, releasing it out in front like that. I add the logo, turn to it, and those two motions together are good golf swing. So let's go and try that out again.

 

I'm here. I'm going to pull up on the butt cap with that green lines. This is where I feel like I'm putting the pressure there and I'm going to present my logo, my glove at the same time. And that's the move that all the pros are doing that allow them to hit it really long, hit a nice draw and compress the heck out of the golf ball.

 

There we go. Nice and solid on that one. Again, 207 Very happy with that right down the pipe. And what I'm focusing on right there is putting pressure in the club. Those two fingers pop in that button of the the cap of the club off and not putting pressure in with these two fingers. Now, there's still a problem with this.

 

What I found is that most players have never been shown how to put these two things together. Now, if I come down steep, let's say my club shaft starts coming down steep and now a square up the face by presenting the logo to the target like we just talked about. I'm going to be coming over the top slip and that ball goes a mile to the left.

 

I mean, the absolute mile to the left, it will hook beyond belief. So what we have to do and what the pros are doing is showing that club out and getting it from the inside and then showing the logo like we talked about in this video, when you get those two things together, that's when you really start to compress the heck out of the golf ball.

 

Golf becomes a blast to play because you're in so many great solid shots. So what I want you to do to get those two moves down, those are the two moves when you put those together, showing the golf club and squaring up the face the right way that I teach you in the move course of the top speed golf system.

 

So if you go the instruction tab top speed golf system, then go to the move. From there, you're going to get access to that full course once you're a member. There's only a handful of videos there, and I'm going to walk you through some of the secrets on how to shallow this club out, get it from the inside, and pair that up with this logo, this grip move that we worked on in the video here today.

 

You put those two moves together. You're going to draw it every single time. You're going to compress the heck out of it and you're going to have a blast playing golf. So head on over the move section. Right now, I challenge you to do one video today. Once you get started with it, you're going to be absolutely hooked.

 

I'll see you there. Let's go head over to the move right now.