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In this video, Adam shares simple tips to help you master the golf grip and set up for a smooth, powerful swing. These easy-to-follow adjustments will improve your grip and give you more control over the club, leading to more consistent and solid shots. Whether you’re new to golf or want to refine your fundamentals, these simple golf grip tips will make your swing feel effortless and boost your confidence on the course.

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Hi, Adam Basiljette here, founder of Scratcholf Academy. Today, golf grip made simple. Not everybody’s grip is the same that’s successful, but I’ll show you three things that your grip needs to allow you to do. You can selfch checkck these things and work on them. I hope they’ll help you. Okay, number one on the list of three things I think the grip has to achieve. Number one is you have to have some control of the club. This club doesn’t weigh an awful lot. you start whipping it around your body at high speed and it’s smashing into the turf and the ball. You need some control over the club. So that’s number one. If that club’s slipping around, not so good. Number two, you need mobility. So you have to have some grip pressure. You have to have some control. But if your wrists are tight, you are losing a huge source of speed. You just have to have that if you’re going to hit the ball a long way and maximize that. Let’s have a look at number three from this angle and we’ll start to get into the details of it. Okay, number three on the list, it’s helping square the club face. Now, without doubt, the natural arc of the golf club, the energy produced at impact where the club snaps out away from the body or at least there’s some responsibility there, but ultimately you’re controlling you’re holding the club with your hands. You have to have some ability to square the face. Ideally, it would be at a subconscious level, but the hands are still involved in that. So, let’s have a look as we start to get going on our grip. Number two, we said we have to have wrist mobility. Going to show you close up. Wrist action, wrist is really just leverage. It’s the ability to push down or if you like at this point in the swing, push out on the club that makes it happen. As we look close up, bear in mind that when you look at a good setup, approximately the arms are hanging, club’s pointing give or take at the belt buckle. In other words, there’s a significant diagonal angle between the arm and the club. That will factor as we take the grip. And then one minor point as well. In a good setup, Bryson and Dshambo would disagree a little bit, the toe of the club will be up a little bit off the ground. Let’s look close up. So, if you’re going to have leverage on the golf club, you have to be able to push down on it. Picture a hammer here. If I had it here, would I grip it like that? Absolutely not. More in the fingers. This pad on top. Now, I can start to hammer the nail. So, relax your hand. Let it sit under the heel pad, not the thumb pad. Down in there. And of course, because the angle of the club is diagonal to the arm, it will go from the very base of the pinky somewhere down into that index finger. Like so. Now I have real control of the club. It’s primarily in the fingers and the pad is on top. Now, the positioning of this lead hand in terms of how far over makes a huge difference because in order to square the club, I have to be able to tilt it this way. And if I can turn the face, I can square it. Now, the more your hand starts over here, the more easily you can do that. But the caution would be if you get excessively over here, a good full free powerful release might start you hooking it. So we’re looking for something probably V to back shoulder, two, three knuckles showing definitely cupped with the hand more in this direction. But play around with it to see what works well for you. Okay, as you start to work on this lead hand, we’ll get to the right hand, the right hand golfer in just a moment. Here’s the key to it. Practice it somewhere. But whatever you do, and I’m going to give you some choices here. Don’t look inside your hand. Don’t stretch it and go underneath the golf club. Your hands don’t hang in a way that you can see inside your palm. So, I’m going to suggest hold the club at about a an angle down at your belt like that. So, I’m creating sort of a 45 degree angle between arm and club. And just hold it here totally relaxed. Maybe close your eyes. Your hands will naturally curl when they’re relaxed. And just feel it fit across the base of the fingers down into the index finger. and I can feel it under that pad and I can practice it there. I knew a guy who’s a Florida Open champion played in the British Open. He always took his grip that way when he played. I haven’t seen too many pros do that, but it’s a great way to practice it a little bit. The two more common ways my old mentor David Lebet, he used to like, hey, when you bend forward like a golfer, your palms to some extent are pointed inwards. He liked to see the club at that angle momentarily so it just match the hand. Great way to do it. Again, the key is to feel it under that pad. A lot of great players put their hand at the side of their body like that and then take their grip. So it would be back here again diagonal and again no staring at it and flattening your hand. But get good at this. It’s pretty easy. You will really be helping yourself. Let’s have a look at the right hand. Now for the trail hand, wherever this hand is, we’d love to see this wrist and hand match the lead hand like that. Doesn’t have to be exactly that. Could be a little bit here or there, but you’re trying to apply pressure to the back of the shaft at impact. You don’t want to be way here, or if you’re way under there, you’ll likely tilt the face and hook it a little bit. So, right there on the back of the club shaft. As we look from here, again, it’s diagonal. So, I’m sort of matching the thumb that’s going, that club thumbs going right in that cleft and giving it a little pinch. If you see a big long thumb here, you’re too straight on top of the club. Should be a pinch here. Something like that. Where the base of that trigger finger and the tip of that thumb are roughly the same distance down the club. Okay. Personal word of encouragement here to you. Most people don’t get to a driving range three days a week. They just don’t have time. But you can grab a club a minute here and a minute there at the house. Maybe a total of three, four minutes a week. This would be a great way to invest in your game. Get the feel for the good grip. Get in a routine where it’s easy and natural for you, whichever one of those choices you make, and just to get where you’re very comfortable with how both hands feel on the club. It will make a world of difference when you get out to actually hit balls. If this is routine, it’s easy for you and you have a good functional grip. [Applause] [Music] [Applause]