Tom Kim’s Secret: The Unconventional Grip That Makes Him Elite

Tom Kim is one of the most promising young stars on the PGA Tour, and his swing is built differently. Unlike many players, he grips the club extremely tightly and keeps his wrist set much wider than most professionals. But why does this work so well for him?

In this breakdown, we dive into:
✅ Why grip strength matters in the golf swing
✅ How Tom Kim controls his clubface without excessive wrist hinge
✅ The benefits of a pivot-driven swing

If you struggle with clubface consistency, weak impact, or too much lag, you might want to give this a try in your own game.

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so here we have one of the best young players in the PJ tour Tom Kim upand Comer tgl star Netflix star Scotty she’s best friend and I’m going to willing to bet future major Champion so what do you see first we’re going get right to it his impact position is absolutely pitcher perfect body’s out of the way shoulders are cleared and pointing upwards everything about this is perfect but how he gets there is unique so we’re going to start back at the beginning here so unlike a lot of people Tom Kim grits the golf club extremely tightly you can’t see it on the video but if there’s a baby bird there that baby bird is he’s holding on to it and he’s holding on to it he’s squishing that bird but what that does is when you see it taken back we go up to the top of his back swing here you’re going to notice because he grips it so tightly he doesn’t have much wrist set so we can see from here to there that angle compared to a lot of players you’re going to see it’s a much wider angle there’s a much less wrist set but that allows him to control the whole Gosling with his pivot so from there as he comes down or before he comes down we can see tremendous shoulder turn giant hip turn lead legs come in a bit and that allows him to get behind the golf ball make a big turn because he controls all his power from his pivot so he has to make sure he has a great turn so it turns down behind the golf ball and as he starts down we see shift forward and he keeps that angle wide all the way through so at lead arm parall to the ground here we can see that angle is very wide in previous videos other tour players we’ve seen the angle somewhere between there and there but Tom has it extremely wide kind of like Steve Stricker back in the day but this allows him to continue to rotate his body so we see his hips are clearing out of the way shoulders are getting out of the way and he controls everything into that impact position by just pivoting his body how can this help you well if you’re someone who struggles with Club face control or maybe gets a little too much lag and kind of dumps it late or struggles with falling back and throwing the golf club at the ball by having a very strong grip not strong grip tight grip like Tom Kim does it reduces wrist hinge and that can help you with a better pivot to control the club face batter through the Impact Zone just like he does and all the way through this is what makes Tom Kim so good and one of the reasons why he’s one of the best players on the PJ tour today