Why You Need This: Do you want some quick help with how to grip the golf club?

There are 3 common ways pros grip their clubs.

And you may be surprised to know which one I recommend :)

Watch the video now to find out the pros and cons with each of the 3 types of grips...

...and discover which one is right for!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    Quentin Patterson    

Video Duration: 5:11

Video Transcription:

Clay: Hey guys, in this video you’re about to watch with one of our certified instructors Quentin Patterson, I want you guys to congratulate him if you don’t mind after this video.

He just joined on with us full time, he’s going to be working with us here at Top Speed Golf. Also, if you’re looking for individual feedback on your swing, he’s going to be opening up spots for unlimited reviews very soon.

Good luck to you guys, say welcome to Quentin. Let’s go ahead and get started with the video.

Hey guys, welcome back to Top Speed Golf. Today I’ve got a special treat for you, we’re joined by Quentin Patterson, he’s one of our certified Top Speed Golf instructors.

Really, really good instructor, does online reviews for the website and also answers a lot of your questions, so you’ve probably seen him around there a lot more. Now we get to have him help us out with the grip today, which is what we’re going to go over.

Maybe some of you guys out there feel a little bit weaker, feel like you don’t have a lot of strength in your arms, and you’re looking to feel a little bit more powerful when you’re holding the club.

Well Quentin is going to go over three different grips, and we’re going to talk about which one is best for you to get the most power and the most speed out there. So let’s go ahead and get started.

Quentin: Hi guys, so we have a few grips to show you guys today, but I want you to know that with any grip that you use, you want to put your left hand on the club the same way.

So you’re going to do that, you want to make sure you’re holding it more in your fingers and not so much in your palm. A lot of people they get it in the lifeline of their hand like their putter grip.

What ends up happening is they want to come through impact with a high handle. We don’t want that, we want to get our hands nice and low, and get forward shaft lean through impact.

The way we do that is we want to make sure that the grip is on the lower pad here, and our forefinger when you put it on there just like that. Then we just bring our thumb down just like that.

We want to make sure we have a nice, short thumb there, and that’s how we put the club, the hand on there with our left hand every time.

So the first grip we’re going to show you is the overlapping grip. With that, you just put your left hand on the club just like we talked about, and then you take your right hand, you take your right pinkie, and you put it right in between your left forefinger and middle finger.

You can put it up here if that feels better to you, but I feel like it’s a little more secure if you’re right in between those two fingers. Thta’s exactly how you do the overlapping group.

The next grip we want to show you guys is the interlocking grip. The way you do that, we just put our left hand just like we talked about, and we’ll put our left forefinger point it out just like that.

Now we can come in with the right hand, and we can get that forefinger right in between our pinkie and our ring finger. Then we just get it nice and secure in there, kind of wrap your pinkie and your forefinger around each other, and make sure there’s no gaps in there.

You don’t want to be like this, you want to make sure that it’s nice and tight, and that’s exactly how you want it to feel, nice and secure. That’s the biggest benefit to this grip.

All right, so the last one we want to show you today is the 10-finger grip, the way we do that is we want to make sure we put our left hand on the club the same way we did before.

A lot of people I see when they use the 10-finger grip, they’ll actually hold it like a baseball bat. We get our thumb like this, we want to make sure our thumb is going right down the shaft, just like we would do with any of the other grips, and then you just bring your right hand in there, and you put it together.

You’re not interlocking anything, or overlapping, you’re just making sure you’re nice and tight together there. Then the other thing you want to make sure is if you’re not tight together you might be kind of hitting it like a hockey, Happy Gilmore, out there.

You want to make sure you’re nice and tight together and really secure. This is going to feel really, really powerful.

Clay: All right, so now that we know what the three grips are, when do we want to use each one of them? The first one that Quentin went over is the overlapping grip. Probably the most popular, I think there’s probably Tour pros using an overlap than just about anything.

I always had a little bit of trouble with the overlap, and particularly the second one where you put the pinkie right on top of the index finger, I think that one’s really tough, it just never felt very secure at all to me.

Quentin: Me either.

Clay: I like to wrap it under there like you were mentioning, and it feels a lot tighter. That’s a good grip, probably the most popular. That gets both the hands working together because they kind of feel like they’re melded in there.

But if you even want more security, so that’s going to work for almost anybody. If you’ve got really big hands, have a tough time fitting them on the club, overlap’s a good way to go.

If you want a little bit more security, maybe your hands are smaller, or maybe you don’t feel like you have as much forearm strength, you can do an interlock and that really feels good and tight.

That’s kind of what I’ve always used, I’ve heard basically the reason I do it is I knew Tiger Woods uses an interlock.

Quentin: Nicklaus.

Clay: Yeah, I think also Greg Norman. So I was like those guys are pretty good, you know, so I’ll go with that.

Quentin: Not bad.

Clay: That always felt really good to me, because now I’m really tight with my hands on the club, or I feel like I have a lot of control.

Then the other one that I always heard, the baseball or 10-finger grip, that was kind of not considered a “real” golf grip, but I played with a guy in college, great player, one of the best ball strikers, there’s guys on Tour that use the 10-finger grip.

I really don’t see much of any downside to it, as long as those hands are together, then you’re going to do really good with the 10-finger.

The big advantage is, maybe you’re not a very powerful player, maybe you’re getting a little bit up in age, you don’t have the forearm strength that you used to have. Maybe it’s a younger player, a junior player, and they want to get more speed or strength.

Having both hands, all 10 fingers on the grip feels like it’s a little bit more powerful to me, and I think that’s a great grip for players that are looking to have more strength in their swings.

So try all three out, see which one feels the most comfortable to you, and go with that. Just because it’s a 10-finger, that’s not a not supposed to be the right kind of grip to use, there’s tons of good players out there using it.

If that feels the best to you, go ahead and use that as long as you follow the keys that Quentin was going over. Thanks for tuning in guys, I really appreciate it. Quentin, thanks for going over the grips with us, and we’ll see you guys soon.