Why You Need This: In this video, you'll discover that the correct golf grip does not matter.

The golf grip is a wildly controversial topic.

Some folks will tell you that you need a strong grip...

Some say a neutral grip is the best way to play...

And some will say that a weak grip is the best grip.

You know what?

It just doesn't matter!

Ben Hogan had a weaker grip.

Tiger Woods uses more of a neutral grip.

And David Duval plays with an extremely strong grip.

Which grip you use is completely up to you.

What does matter then?

Well, there is one mistake that I see many golfers make.

It's what I call the "long thumb," which is when your thumb sticks way out and doesn't cinch with your index finger.

The problem with the "long thumb" is that it makes it tough for you to control the club.

Here's a secret tip that'll help you make sure your thumb and hand is in the correct position...

Draw two lines that connect on your thumb and index finger.

When you grip the club, the lines should be close to each other.

If not, then you're thumb is likely too far down the shaft and your won't have the control you need.

Next, let's look at some real data...

In the video, I break out the FlightScope and demonstrate some shots with a weak, neutral, and strong grip.

I typically use a neutral grip when I play, but I was able to hit decent shots with a weak and strong grip.

And I'm sure those shots would be better with more practice.

Again, the point of all this is to show you that hitting with a weak, neutral, or strong grip isn't nearly as important as most golfers think it is.

All that matters is your preference.

Watch this video now to get the truth about which grip is the best!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:11

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, we’re going to talk about a widely controversial, I’ve heard many arguments talking about, what’s the proper grip? Somebody will tell you oh, you need a strong grip with the hands turned a lot to the right.

Somebody will say a neutral grip is the only way to go, or even a weaker grip, maybe something more like what a Hogan would have done.

Well, honestly, it doesn’t really make all that much difference. You can play, you can be the number one player of the world whether you’re Ben Hogan with a weak grip, Tiger Woods with basically a neutral grip for most of his career, or David Duval with an extremely strong grip.

So it’s really up to you. I do have one trick before we get into this video, where I hit one with a weak grip, a neutral grip, and a strong grip, and I’ll show you that I can hit a pretty good shot with any grip that I want to, once I know how to maneuver this club properly.

But there is one trick that will really help you out.

If you take, imagine you’re taking a tee out of your pocket, and you’re going to hand somebody between your thumb and your forefinger a tee. What I’ve done is I’ve put two lines as that happens.

If you can see on my fingers, there’s two lines that are connecting there. A lot of times what I see players that struggling, beginning players especially, almost all beginning players do this, they have what’s called a long thumb, or what I call a long thumb.

If you look at my left hand, this would be my thumb sticking way out down the shaft, and my right hand is the same way. They almost take the club over here like that.

Now you can see those two lines are completely separated, they’re not close together at all. My thumb and my forefinger aren’t kind of cinched together like that.

What happens is, now all of a sudden I lose complete control of the club. So doesn’t matter if I’m strong, neutral, or weak, if I don’t have control of the club well then I can’t really hit the ball.

I see this a lot of times with people that are just starting out, their hands look something like this, really spread out like that. They’re not getting a good, firm grasp on the club.

When I take my thumb and I pull it in, and now my thumb and my forefinger are against each other, I’ve kind of flattened out my hand on this grip and it’s going to be able to hold the club a little bit better.

I like to have that club, the butt end of the club, below the pad, just below the pad of my left hand, the bottom pad, the meaty pad on your hand. You’ve probably heard people talk about that.

I also want to do the same thing with my right hand. Instead of having this really long thumb down the shaft, I’m going to pull that in.

What that does, is that takes my hand and it kind of puts it in to my right thumb and now you can see if I come up closer to the camera, that my thumb and my forefinger are very close together.

From there, I can take this, I can move it to the right and make it strong, that’s fine. I can move it to the left and make it weak, or I can make it neutral. I tend to prefer a neutral grip, but again, it all comes down to preference, as long as my hands are working together and controlling that golf club.

So now from here, I have my FlightScope out, my radar, it’s going to tell me about how far I hit some of these shots. I’m going to go ahead and make a few swings; one weak, one neutral, one strong.

We’ll see how they fly and hopefully I can hit some pretty good shots with each of those, and show you no matter which grip you choose, you can play some good golf.

All right, so three swings. We’ll take a look at this first video. I will tell you I’m uncomfortable, I don’t use a really weak grip. I tried to get as weak as I could there, and I hit it dead straight.

Didn’t hit it extremely solid, just because that’s my first swing using a weak grip in probably, I don’t know how many years it’s been since I’ve done something like that. Club head speed, 97 miles an hour.

170 yards, so a pretty good strike on that one. Wouldn’t say it was the best shot in the world, but it was completely fine. I think most people would be pretty happy with a 170-yard 7 iron and 98 miles an hour swing speed.

Like I said, it wasn’t all that solid, and there’s a bit of wind kind of pushing it. It wasn’t the best shot in the world, but that’s pretty good golf. You’d get around the course pretty well doing that. If we take a look at the second swing, 95 miles an hour, so actually a little bit slower swing speed on the second one.

That was my neutral grip, that’s basically what I use every day playing. I hit that one dead solid, 178, so nice shot there. Then I go to the strong grip, again, I’m not used to it. I didn’t take any warm-up swings, I just took a really strong grip.

I was afraid that I was going to hook it, because when you strengthen your grip it’s going to tend to rotate the club face a little bit more closed, so I really feel like I exaggerated holding off on it and sliced it a little bit. But again, 172 and a half, 98 miles an hour club head speed.

All three of them pretty good club head speed, pretty good shots. You could go out and play under par hitting shots like that. So it really depends on what your individual preference is, it’s not going to matter that much as to actually what type of grip you use. It all just depends on the player.

Good luck to you guys, make some good swings. Choose the grip that you like the best, just make sure those hands are working together on the club, use that one little trick that I showed you there. I think you guys will do a great job. Good luck, play well.