Whether you are a beginner or an established golfer, the fundamentals of golf are key to your game. In this series of videos I focus on
– The Grip
– Stance and Posture – Address position
– Alignment to your target.
These are the foundations upon which a good golf swing is built.
Get these right and your golf will improve.
So the most important foundation of any golf swing is the golf grip but even before we learn how to grip the club properly we need to know how to align a golf club up with a Target there are three things going on here one is the
Ball one is the teg which is my Target and the Leading Edge this bottom line of a golf club is called the Leading Edge and it is pointing at or perpendicular to this teg that’s how we align a golf club what what happens very often is people align this top
Edge now you can see what’s going to happen that Ball’s going to go left over here okay so the Leading Edge of a golf club is very very important from there we can start to now if we can keep this stable that is learn how to grip the golf club
Properly so assuming the golf club head is now steady and it does not move uh we can now start to create a really nice golf grip and we’re going to start with the left hand the left hand for a right-handed player is the upper hand
Little bit of space at the top of the grip and do you see how I’ve opened my hand up and the fingers are sat very nicely diagonally in the back of the golf grip itself okay that’s that’s very important we don’t want grip the club in the Palm we grip it
Basically across the fingers this this this top hand here is at 45° to the grip that could help you it’s not like this it’s at 45° okay we don’t want the fingers to go on first we want actually to lap the left hand over and then the fingers grip
So that the left thumb is to the right of Center the left thumbnail is sort of level with the end of my index finger there I don’t want the left thumb to be elongated there’ll be far too much tension in the left arm there so about
So okay as I look straight down I can see two and a half three Knuckles of the left hand all right I’m now going to try and join this right hand a few options available to me and that is that if I make a little bit of space in
The right hand here this little finger moves away I can interlock the hands okay or same thing here or and this is the most popular one it’s called an overlap grip I let the little finger sit in that last Grove of the index finger very nicely come back down and the other three
Fingers again that back of the or the golf grip itself is sat very nicely in the fingers okay now if I then let this right hand join in okay that fleshy part of my right thumb sits very nicely on my left in a good golf grip you
Should never see the left thumb it’s covered by this pad of the right and you can see actually that the hands are pretty well parallel to one another the v’s they call them the lines created between the thumb and the Flesh of the left hand there and also the same
Here those lines are pointing in or they parallel to one another and they’re pointing between the chin and the right shoulder all right in actual fact have actually just pushed this index finger down a little bit it’s called the trigger finger it’s quite a St stabilizing feature of a good golf grip
Okay all right so tension wise as long as the golf club head doesn’t move you’ve pretty well got the right tension of the golf grip all right again goes back to that club head Club head is very stable and the grip itself
Is on a scale of 1 to 10 five or six in terms of pressure okay there we are there’s a nice golf C so another nice way of remembering a golf GP in a very simplistic form is if we were to clap hands separate your hands slightly and then turn the hands a
Quarter to the right that’s how the hands would look on a golf club like this in other words thumbs aren’t straight down etc etc it’s slightly tilted round to the right you could do that without a golf club you don’t need to have a or hold a golf club
Just to practice your golf Grrip
