I’m sure at some point you’ve been taught to hold the golf club like you’re “holding a baby bird” or “holding a tube of toothpaste without trying to squeeze any toothpaste out of it”. I was taught the same way with the idea that lighter grip pressure was always good for your golf swing and that’s what you needed to do for the best results.
Surprisingly, holding the club light in your hands creates a whole bunch of potential problems in every area of your golf game – from the golf swing to chipping and pitching, and even putting. When you hold the club lightly, it allows for it to wobble and move around during your swing. This lack of security in your grip makes it difficult to return the club squarely at impact. It can also get your wrists moving excessively which can cause flipping and other contact issues.
Holding the golf club tightly – firmly in your hands – does the opposite. While it will feel very different, Bryson Dechambeau says a tight hold on the club sends signals through your body that the golf club isn’t going anywhere and that you can just send it…not bad advice from a guy who rips the ball nearly 400 yards. I can attest to this. I used to grip the golf club so lightly and, even though it was secure in my hands, I still felt like the club was moving too much into places it shouldn’t be…then one day I started gripping it really firm and amazing things happened…I got my accuracy back, the ball was traveling farther, and I putted lights out!
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0:00 You’ve Been Gripping the Club Wrong?!
0:39 The Secret to Hitting FARTHER
2:00 How Should You Hold the Club?
3:28 How You Hold the Club Can FIX Your Swing
4:45 The LONGEST Golfers Hold the Club Like This
6:24 This Can Improve Your Putting by 10 Shots!
8:05 This Improves Your Chipping and Pitching
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Had a problem with swinging for the fences with no distance…turns out I wasn’t holding the club with my right hand as well as it should have been. Added 20-30 yards onto 7 iron.
Tom It looks like you use an oversize grip. Is a larger grip ok for most players?
Holding it tighter can lead to tension in the shoulders arms & hands which kills clubhead speed. Obviously you don't want it moving in your hands but holding it like a baby bird or toothpaste isn't even relatable. But a baseball traveling at 90mph provides speed against the bat whereas the golf ball is just sitting on the ground forcing us to provide all of the energy to get it to fly the distance we need. Impact against a moving object is totally different than a stationary one in that sense. Grip pressure is the least stressed part of golf instruction & at least Tom is bringing it out. Although, it's really difficult to teach if the wrong references are used. I've never held a baby bird & not squeezing a toothpaste tube for grip pressure isn't really much better because your pressure usually changes during the swing. It's as simple as holding it only as with enough pressure that you can feel the weight of the clubhead & not the weight of the entire club. If you can't feel the clubhead, your pressure is too tight. Lighen up till you can & keep it as close to that as you can during the entire swing & it should be right.
Hol E cow Tom, That was a dwarf-on-golf moment ! Yaa, I like 4 to 5 on the 10 scale.
YT challenge, come to Kansas and help me get my score below 100. Boom 1 million views 👏
Hi Tom, aprecition for the nstruction. What about grip size. Maybe it's the vid but the grips look oversize. being a ball player, played a little myself I always wondered if larger say maybe oversize ones my work better for me. Cheers
Great channel……even better now that I know you're a Yankee fan.
@0:38 that is a European Robin! Much smaller and cuter and far less noisy than it's American counterpart. Andddd, they don't eat all those plump worms I need for fishin'.
Your editing is Hilarious Tom 😂 I try to get my grip tight so my hands work as one unit. That way I don't find myself white knuckling.
You hold a bat loose in your fingers until you start your swing you firm up but not to firm it will slow your bat down just like a golf club.Try a really firm grip from start to finish it will slow your club down.
I played great one year when I had the lightest grip on the club….but I figured out it wasn’t because of the grip…it was because my wrists were loose….to me, if you can have a decently firm grip with loose wrists then you’re set up for success.
Hitters grip it tight ( palmer )
Swingers grip it light ( nelson )
Ball in heavy rough,grip it tight
Ball in fairway ,grip it light,your grip will tighten at impact involuntarily. Ball bat and golf club not a good analogy.weight on a string and golf club better but not perfect analogy. You can't release the force you created during the swing with locked wrists or firm grip.I am a swinger of the golf club and still considered a A player in my 80s.
After I started doing the ‘Wring the Towel’ Grip that the great Golf Instructor (Pete Cowen) talks about, my game improved dramatically.
Love ur content an ur crazyness man😂👌A few years ago I was putting and always comming up short. The signals from my brain were telling me I was hitting it hard enough to get past the hole yet it was still repeatedly comming up short!
I tightened my grip just on the right hand (I play right handed) and that started making my putts go the distances my brain was expecting and aiming for. I realised that the looser the grip the less rebound you get because the week part of the chain is the grip. The stronger the grip the more rebound you get and the ball goes more where I expect. When I forget and have a loose grip I'm nowhere near the hole.
Same as driver and irons. If you keep a tight grip with just the pinkies then it cuts out club casting and also allows the wrists and arms to be more relaxed and move freely giving you much more solid and consistent strikes, and 'lag'. If you haven't got a tight grip then the tention of the club weight is transferred onto wrists and arms and that's where ALL the bad shot come from when there is unwanted tention in the upper body🤷♂️
As a great coach once said, you have to loose control of the arms to gain control of the club 😮 go Zen 🖖
The only way u can do that is with 'a very firm grip' as Harry potters auntie patulia once said 😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Yes, they have been chirping on about that one for a long time. The waggle should establish the right grip pressure. the digiti minimi and flexor retinaculum, in the left hand, work as antagonistic opposites in the waggle. when the flexor retinaculum becomes active it restricts the movement of the digiti minimi in the takeaway, whilst it pushes the club back. This directs force into the lower part of the right arm, whilst the digiti minimi pulls on the left side of the right forearm. The combined forces of the digiti minimi and flexor retinaculum, in the left hand, bend the right arm in the first part of the backswing.
I’ve never swung a bird at 100 mph!
Hey Tom. Great video as always! Had a quick question for you. I was working on some things at the range today and an old golf pro comes up to me and tried to give me some advice (get your hands higher in the backswing, shift my weight to my trail side, and telling me I’m holding off the “release” of the club too long). I go along with it and work with him for about 15 minutes even though I don’t agree with his view of the golf swing and it’s ultimately setting me back. Any advice on how to tell these golf coaches that have been doing the same thing forever that I don’t want his advice. I started playing less than a year ago and I’m 24 so I’m an easy target for these guys lol.
Do I see oversized grips on your club? How is that working for you?
Tom, I notice you use Jumbo grips on your clubs. I've been thinking of regripping to a larger grip, and would love to hear your thoughts on why the jumbos make more sense? Thanks!
Funny 🤣
I'm the one percent that knew this.
What are your thoughts on the grip size? I have large hands and prefer the jumbo grips so that I don't have to have a death grip on the club…
My grip is naturally tighter after learning from you.
You taught me to pit out my elbows. Focus on shoulder pointing at ball at top of back swing. That naturally came with a tighter grip. Thank you for making me a competitive golfer!