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Proper Gripping Of Golf Club Importance

2016/7/20 11:10:13

The correct grip of a golf club is the palm-and-finger grip. To achieve this grip, first grab the club with your palms facing each other. Next, place your left hand against the shaft so that the shaft lies diagonally from the crook of the left finger to the palm. This is called a combination palm and finger grip. Close your left hand with only the first two fingers and the palm holding the club. Make sure you have a fold of flesh in between the club and the little finger. This palm and finger grip will eventually lead you to having the correct grip of a golf club.
Looking down at the ball with your hands on the club you should only see two knuckles, the base knuckles of the index finger and second finger. The others are covered or hidden behind the shaft. Now you are ready for the left hand.
Next up when learning about obtaining the proper golf grip is evaluating the right hand. This hand is quite critical, for the way it clutches the golf club, and the way it conforms against the left hand. Some say the right hand grip is a finger grip, but where exactly in the fingers? At the very bottom of them, where they join at the palm of your hands. This is the optimal place since the club can be controlled with most surety.
There is not only less chance but less inclination, with such a grip, to loosen the hand at the top of the swing or anywhere else. Such a grip, because it is at the very edge of the palm, makes for a tighter connecting joint between arm and club, with less give than any other. It transmits more power when the ball is struck.
Any type of hold higher in the fingers of your right hand is unreliable. This is a somewhat relaxed hold to start with, and the propensity is to relax it even more when you are at the top of your swing. Also, there is likely to be more give when you hit the ball.
We have established the right hand grip as using the second and third fingers since the pointer, or index finger is a little bit away from the middle finger and is curved down lower around the club. The pinky finger, in either the overlapping or intertwining holds isn't in contact with the golf club at all. In the ten-finger grip, however, the little finger would seize the golf club precisely the same as the second and third fingers do.
Golfers find it hard to believe, apparently, that a golf ball is driven straight by hitting it from the inside. The average player has the almost overpowering conviction that if he hits the ball from inside this line it will fly far out to the right. He cannot see how anything else can happen. He also knows that when he takes the club to the top of the well inside this line. His first instinct, when he starts the club down, is to manipulate the head out onto the line or near it, so he can bring it down along the line .
The moment anyone picks up a golf club for the first time to attempt to play golf, they have taken the first step to create or build a golf swing. There can be no doubt that the first foundation of a swing is the correct grip - get this right and the rest follows in sequence.A golf shot is measured by two standards. One is direction, the other is distance. Direction is governed partly by the position of the club face at impact and partly by the path the club head follows. The position of the club face is largely determined by the grip.
The V shape that is formed at the junction between the thumb and forefinger of each hand should both be pointing at a spot just to the right of your chin.
That's all there is to it! Congratulations, now you know how to get the correct golf grip and with a bit of practice you'll get it right every time.

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