Golf Swing Trainer – Get A Grip
If you want to improve you golf game, you need to get a grip. In this post on golf swing trainer, I want to give you a better idea on how to grip you golf clubs. How tight of a grip do you need to have? You don’t want to have a loose grip or even a firm grip, we want to have a tight grip.
I don’t mean that you should have the type of grip that your muscle in your arms and shoulders are tied up with tension, but we do want to have our hands tightly on the clubs. If you’re wondering about the wrist in regards that the swing would be stiff and wooden, don’t worry about the wrist.
I’ve rarely every seen anybody to stiff or too tight in swinging a golf clubs (except those “scared” beginners), but I’ve seen many if not thousands of loose ones. The whole tendency in pupils is to take too light a grip. The loose grip leads into faults opening the hands at the top, collapsing the left wrist, over swinging, and so on.
A tight grip, though it does feel awkward for a while, acts as a brace from these various faults and makes the entire swing action easier to perform correctly.
By a tight grip we also mean with practically all the fingers that are on the club. These would be the last three of the left hand and the first three of the right. Many players have a tendency to place the forefinger of the right hand, the one that hooks around the shaft just below the right thumb, very lightly on the club. Don’t do it, it will hook.
Place the finger around the shaft firmly, so that the tip of it makes a definite contact with the tip of your thumb. If you don’t, the club will be liable to drop, at the top of the swing, into the big V between the forefinger and thumb. This means a loss of control at the top, which must be regained as the club comes down.
Now, how do we stand up the ball? No great mystery is involved in this either, although certain points must be observed.
It’s important that we take a position that will enable us to swing the club freely and to bring it down to the ball on an inside-out arc easily. To do this, the weight should be divided equally between the feet and the knees must be slightly flexed (it’s better too much than too little).
You should be bent ever so slightl from the waist and the shoulders should be rounded or hunched over. The head should be down, but not too much. The right shoulder should be lower than the left because of the fact that the right hand is lower on the shaft than the left (if you’re a lefty, reverse it).
I hope this post helps to improve your swing. I know that it’s helped me in the past and it’s something that I always keep in mind when I play.
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