Do you have questions on the proper way grip the club.
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Welcome back, todays question comes from AJ and AJ wrote, hi Sean and I was watching the
PGA Tour on television this weekend and I was listening to commentators talking about
a strong grip, weak grip, and neutral grip.
Could you please explain the differences between these three grips and suggest which one you
think is best.
The first grip I want to talk about is a strong grip.
Typically, when we hear the commentators on TV talking about a strong grip, typically
they are just referring to the left hand.
So as you can see when I look down the "V" which is being created right here is going
somewhere outside my right shoulder.
I can also see one, two, three or almost four knuckles.
This is a grip that David used when he was world number one and Paul Azinger.
Also, sometimes when they are talking about a strong grip you can also have a strong right
hand grip.
What that means is when the right hand is on the club it is slightly under and the "V"
is pointing outside the right shoulder as well.
Typically, when they are talking about strong grips on TV all the time they are simply referring
to the left hand grip.
Now, I want to talk about a weak grip.
When you hear the commentators talk about a weak left hand grip what they mean by this
is when you look down you can only see one knuckle on your left hand.
Also, the "V" that is created here is pointing somewhat near the left shoulder.
When they talk about a weak right hand grip.
You will see the hand sitting a little too much on the grip.
The "V" will be pointing towards the left shoulder.
When you hear the commentators talking about on TV, oh he has a weak grip they are referring
the this left hand right here.
This is a grip you might see Jose Maria Olazabel use and obviously he has used it very well.
The last grip I want to talk about is a neutral grip.
With a neutral grip, when we look down we are going to two or two half knuckles on the
left hand and we are going to see this "V" pointing up towards the right shoulder.
The same is going for the right hand.
When we put our right hand on the club, we want to see this "V" going up towards our
right shoulder.
That is a good sign you have a good neutral grip.
One of the advantages of having a good neutral grip is its going to be very easy for you
to get good wrist hinge on the backswing.
Typically, for golfers who grip the club very weak, they find it very difficult to hinge
the club.
There for they are not able to create a good lever point right here.
So, by having a good neutral grip it will help your wrist hinge and help you get a little
more distance.
One final thing that I would like to talk about is where the heal pad is place on the
golf club.
No matter which grip you use it is absolutely vital that the heal pad for a right handed
golfer the heal pad sets on top of the club.
I'm going to come in a little closer and demonstrate, but I want you to make sure that this part
of your hand is sitting on top of the shaft.
We don't want it sitting to the side because this is going to make it very difficult to
hinge the club on the backswing.
I will do one more demonstration, you can see the club is running somewhat through the
base of my hands and when I close my hands the heal pad is sitting right on top.
When the heal pad is on top of the club when we get to the top of our swing, the heal pad
provides great support for the shaft up here.
If we have it to the side, we won't have the same support and you can actually see the
grip moving around in people's hands and people will actually wear their gloves out.
To wrap up no matter which grip you use the one thing I would like you to have in common
of all three is trying to get this heal pad to sit on top of the shaft that is the most
important part of the grip I feel.
If you or anyone else has any questions about your golf grip, please put them in the comment
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