Grip the Golf Clubs – Know how

Now that you bought the best of Golf Clubs even before you learned the basics. What do basics mean? Just the way you stand with the club in your hand and the ball beneath you? Exactly! We may know how to hit but we may not know how to hit with the perfect grip, perfect stance and these are what we call as the basics!

These basics will help you attain the maximum result with each type of club. The following are the basic guidelines on how to hold the clubs:-

Neither soft nor hard

You do not want the club go out of control with a lose grip but also at the time, you must not also hold it too hard. Your grip must be strong but not much stronger to the extent of breaking the shaft. Your grip determines the coordination of your wrist and the swing of the club.

Thumb Rule

Let the thumb point to the ground, i.e. at the ball. The top hand and the bottom hand must coordinate with a slight interlock. The small finger of your bottom hand must interlock with the index finger of your top hand. This means the right hand is the bottom hand for the right hander and the left hand is the top hand. The opposite applies to the left handed Golfer.

Cover up the thumb

Keep the thumb of the top hand (left hand in case of right hander) covered up under the bottom hand (right hand in case of right handed clubbers). Hold the club upright like holding a baseball bat and unfold your bottom hand, place your bottom hand right and enclose your right hand.

Overlapping

An overlapping grip is nothing but a full enclosure of one hand over the other. All the respective fingers of the top hand are covered by the respective fingers of the bottom hand. This grip gives you more power though not the ideal grip all the time.

Ten fingers

Similar to playing baseball, this grip is one where you keep the bottom hand below the top hand and the fingers of the top hand overlap the fingers of the bottom hand very much as opposite to the overlapping grip.

Interlocking

This grip is one where the little finger of the bottom hand and the index finger and the middle finger coordinate to provide maximum power. Interlocking grip is the ideal grip that is recommended by experienced golfers to the amateurs and beginners. This is the most comfortable form of gripping.