In this video, Bob Lamkin and Brendan Steele discuss the importance of using a light-pressure grip in your golf game. Grip pressure is one of the most important factors in deciding the outcome of a golf swing. Faulty golf grips lead to players holding their clubs too tightly, which leads to improper release, erroneous club head orientations, and poor shot control.
Brendan Steele explains the effect that having proper grips on your clubs can make for amateurs and professionals alike. Steele shows the way he uses club grip to out-play the competition in tournaments and competitive matches. Get the most out of your game, and your golf grips, with proper fitting, maintenance and replacements.
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Bob: Hi, I’m Bob Lamkin, President and CEO of Lamkin Grips. I’m here today at beautiful St. Louis Golf and Country Club with my friend, Brendan Steele, PGA Tour professional. Brendan, I’d like to start our conversation this morning about grip pressure. So can you give me some insight on how important grip pressure is when you’re playing in a golf tournament?
Brendan: Well, the grip’s the only connection that you have to the golf club, and the golf club is how you control the flight of the ball, the strike of the ball, everything that I’m trying to do with the club. The grip pressure is the most important factor. If it gets too tight, you can’t release the club. You can’t hit the shot that you want. You’re not going to get the shape. You’re not going to get the flight. So it’s a huge factor at any level of play.
One of the things that I always like to tell people is that whenever you get into a situation where you’re a little bit nervous or uncomfortable, your grip pressure always increases whether you know it or not. So guys on tour will oftentimes try to pick the club up off the ground, and make sure that they get kind of the feel of the right grip pressure. You’ll see guys taking their fingers off and on to the club trying to just get that feel, make sure that they’re not strangling it and creating the tension all the way up their arms. So I try to just kind of get it here, get the right pressure, and then that way I can get into it and keep that same connection to the club.
Bob: Beautiful. There’s that draw you’re talking about. And that’s your “go to” shot all the time.
Branden: That’s my stock shot. When I’m playing well, the ball moves right to left most of the time. If the flag is on the right or the hole is going the other way, I’ll hit different shots, but I try to out stock people is what I call it. So I try to just hit a lot of stock shots, take my draw up and down with different flights, and just wear guys out over the course of four days.
Bob: Okay, Okay. So you’ll hit one more. Beautiful, Beautiful.
