Back to Basics
If you can remember the first thing you were told and learned about when you started golf was how to grip the club. It is very important that you have a good relationship between your hands and the clubface during your swing. Your hands are the only part of your body that actually touch the club, so getting it right is essential. As the great Sam Snead once said " If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they´d starve to death". If you are learning the game or playing already have a quick check on your grip. Having the correct grip will help you find the correct swing plane, and help generate some extra power. The correct grip will not only benefit your accuracy with your long game, you will also see a big improvement with your short game.
Starting with your left hand, you want the grip to run through the fingers with the pad of your hand sitting on the top of the club. If the club is resting in the palm of your hand you are unable to hinge your left wrist up and down. Your left thumb is in position pointing just to the right of the middle of the grip. the V in your left hand is now pointing to your right shoulder. I use the overlapping grip but some of you will use the interlocking grip, make sure that the right hand wraps over and the crease in the middle of your right hand fits onto your left thumb. The V in your right hand will be pointing in the same direction now as your left hand. For the pressure in your hands it should feel like you are holding a tube of toothpaste with no toothpaste coming out.
