The Consistent Golf School

Lesson 1 - The Grip Summary

Position the shaft so that it’s running across the top joint of your forefinger and under the heel of the palm of your left hand.

The thumb of your left hand should be put in a position just to the right side of the front of the grip. And this will cause your thumb to fit closely alongside the rest of your hand. To test this, you should be able to place a tee between your left thumb and hand and hold the tee in place.

Once you’ve completed your left-hand grip (with your feet together like the picture below demonstrates) you should be able to see 2 to 3 knuckles when you look down. And you should have a 2 knuckle left hand grip if your problem shot is a hook, and a 3 knuckle left hand grip if your problem shot is a slice. But experiment with this and see what works best for you.

Check your grips to make sure they are not too fat or too thin.

Grip Too Thin		Grip Too Fat

Perfect Sized Grip

When gripping the club with your right hand make sure that you grip the club entirely in the fingers.

Finally, make sure the V’s of both hands of your completed grip are pointing along the same parallel lines.

So now that you know how you should be gripping the club, it’s now up to you to practice it and so here are the...

Task For This Week

Task 1 - I suggest you practice gripping a club following the instructions you've just learnt for at least 5 minutes a day for the next 7 days (and beyond). Because by doing that you'll habitualize a good grip quickly.

Now, before you start practicing your grip I must mention something very important and that's relaxation.

Your hands, arms and wrists must be relaxed when practicing and using your grip.

Because most golfers have way too much tension in their arms, wrists and hands, which stops the club from working as it should. And a good technique to reduce tension over a shot is to tense your arms, hands and wrists as hard as possible before a shot.

By doing this you’ll reduce the chances of tension creeping in when you are hitting your shots. And in fact, this is a good technique to use before every golf shot. Make it a habit and you'll have a lot looser hands when swinging.

Total Practice Time = Approximately 5 Minutes Per Practice Session

So there you go, you have your first task for this program. Please practice your grip as much as possible because it's critically important to creating a consistent, powerful swing. Then next week I'll give you a lesson on perfecting where you position the ball in the stance so come back to The Long Game index page in 7 days time to get that new lesson.