Ben Hogans Grip. Let me explain how Ben Hogan held the golf club and why is stops hooks, pulls and slices. The drill at the end of the video is a game changer. The golf grip is the only point of contact with the golf club so its very important to get that right. Why? Because our golf grip/hand position controls the clubface and has an influence on the swing path of the golf club. Get this right and youw will stop hooking, stop slicing and stop pull hooking the golf ball. You’ll learn a lot from this Ben hogan golf grip. How to stop slicing the golf ball to the right, How to stop hooking the golf ball to the left and how to stop pulling the golf ball left all come from correct hand placement on the golf club.
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Right. We’re on Ben Hogan’s golf grip. We’re going to talk about Ben Hogan’s golf grip today. It’s the only point of contact you have with the golf club. So, it’s obviously very, very important. If you get it wrong, it can have issues with club face, dynamic loft, angle of attack, all sorts of things can happen. Ben Hogan’s golf grip is the grip to copy in my opinion. So, I’ve found a relatively quiet spot in the golf course here. I’m not going to hit any balls. We’re just going to purely talk grip and a drill that can ensure that you stop coming over the top because you’ve adopted Hogan’s grip. Now, the lead hand, left hand for the right-handed golfer, your lead hand, your gloved hand. Finger placement and pad placement. So important. Watch this. Finger placement. Excuse all this. It’s interesting. Finger placement. So, your trail hand, your lead hand, sorry. In between this line and this line. So, that line and that line is where the golf club sits. Sits in that circle there. So, when you’re placing your your lead hand on, I get them mixed up all the time. Placing your lead hand on, this is what Mr. Hogan did. He would place the club, the left hand. So, if I do this, the left hand in there, and then it’s got the room for maneuver up and down the palm as to where he places it. But the contact point was there on the lead hand in that red circle. Now, in relation to the rest of the hand to support the club, this pad here, the club sat underneath the pad. So, you can see my pad there, the club sits underneath there, just in here. That’s where my club’s going to sit. So, I place my lead hand, red dot from index finger on the front of the grip, front of the shaft, and then the pad sits on top. You can see just there where that pad is sitting on top. And then I take my grip. Now, that for me does feel a little bit weird. It feels as though when I put my hand on there, I’m in a very weak position. So, weak as in turned towards target, strong as in turned away from target. That’s strong. That would be weak there. I’ve got a five iron in my hand, but that to me feels quite weak cuz I am a slightly stronger gripped player, but it feels quite weak there. And when I look down, I see one and a half knuckles on my left hand. One and a half. A lot of tour players now have got a weaker grip because they can hit harder. They can be more aggressive with the hands because there’s no way the face is going to close over. So the body turns and they can hit really hard. Hogan talked about wishing they had three right arms to apply all that force in there and really get that club face to close over, but it won’t fully close over. He’ll take the left side of the golf course out because the grip’s weak. his reference point here. There’s two things to think about. His reference point here regarding the V between index finger and thumb. This little V shape that’s created between index finger and thumb goes up towards up towards Mr. Hogan’s right eye. So if he was in a strong position, that V is coming down here. That’s not happening. He is index finger pad there. V going up towards right eye. So a good way to check that is hold the club out in front of you. Take your ball position, lift it up. Where is it pointing? It’s pointing towards my right eye as I see it there. Back down. There I am. Pretty good. Now, the second thing to think about, if I’ve got this correctly, I should be able to take one, two, three fingers off the club there. So, it’s sitting exactly under the pad and the red dot is on the front of the shaft. So, I’m able to hold it there. That is me securely lead hand Ben Hogan style trail hand. Now the trail hand is all about the two middle fingers as far as I’m concerned. As far as Mr. Hogan was concerned very very similar. These two fingers here they get applied on the club in a certain way. You look at Stenson. Stenson would pull it down really focus on those two fingers there and then wrap his hand around take his grip play his shot. You can just imagine Stenson doing his thing feeling that in there. Hogan was the same. This trail this trail hand. I’m going to draw some more lines on here. There the club shaft there to there. In this section here is where Mr. Hogan laid the club. Right in there. Actually, it was more here. So, in this shaded area there was where Mr. Hogan would hold the club there. So, right at the top of the fingers, they wrap those two fingers round tightly. lead hand on a lot of pressure on these three fingers. Trail hand, these two fingers wrapped around tightly and then the hands placed on. Where would the V be in the trail hand? Where’s this V between index finger and thumb and the trail hand? Incredibly, that V is pointing up towards Mr. Hogan’s chin. That must be a really weak grip. Is generally quite a weak grip. Hands are pretty much turned around that way. One to one and a half knuckle in the lead hand with the V pointing up towards right eye there. I then take my position, put my club vertical. I can place my hand correctly, wrap those two fingers round, take my overlap grip. Myself and Hogan have an overlap grip. Interlock 10 finger. Those two fingers are on, wrapped around. Then from there, I can place the hand on. And that’s the precise placement Mr. Hogan had when he placed his hands on the grip. Now, how does that prevent you coming over the top? Well, we’ve talked about preventing to go left because we got a weak grip. We can now hit hard at it with the hands, educated hands, of course. But how does it stop you coming over the top? Watch this. If I address this ball that’s lying there. Can you see the invisible ball? Take my grip. Allah Hogan. One, two, three fingers. That’s a pressure point. That’s going to grip quite tight there. I place my two index, my two middle fingers, my ring finger, and my middle finger on trail hand. Wrap it around. Overlap there. I’m now good. I now feels I’m in a weak position, which is crazy. So, I can hit hard with the hands. So, I’m never going to close that face over. That’s never going to happen. If I take my index finger and my thumb of my trail hand off the grip like so and hit balls like that, where this trail hand, this trail finger, index finger touches the grip, that’s pressure point number three. So that’s going to come through and that’s what’s going to control the back of the shaft. Therefore, controlling the club face with that connection there where that trail index finger touches basically that knuckle touches. That’s going to control everything. So, I won’t be able to if my index finger and my thumb are pinched together, I won’t be able to yank down from the top. That lack of connection there and control by the finger, the index finger on the after of the shaft will bring me down into a position here where it’s much easier to deliver the same every time without any tightening grip over there. Isn’t that incredible? And then, of course, if you can apply power and speed to that, Mr. Hogan talked about the bottom half of the body working first and then this lagging behind. You can hit hard with the right hand without the index finger or the thumb being on and you’ll swing on a great plane and you very rarely come over the top from that action. And that for me, ladies and gentlemen, is an absolute win. Mr. Hogan knew what he was doing. He knew all about the grip, how the hand placement was on there. He was a way ahead of his time. And we’re still teaching that today. Go out and try and play golf with a slightly weaker grip with those pressure points and those positions on the grip. Leave comments. Let me know how you get on. Try the drill. Over the top will be gone. Slice will be gone. It’s not going to be easy, though. I’ll see you in my next video. Thanks.
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Great video Steve
Probably a great idea for a new glove design?
I've played for quite a long time now but fairly infrequently, last year or so my right hand second finger is fairly painful , any ideas with I'm doing wrong in the grip or something else?
Brill video Steve, by the way what clubs and grip size you using.
Brilliant Steve,cheers😊
Cheers Steve, a brilliant reminder, my grip has gradually got stronger without me realising, proves the original fundamentals are so important 👍
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For your top hand placement, the grip of the club is actually resting on the second phalanx of the index finger. The tip of the index finger is applying pressure to steady the grip on the first phalanx. Really, the thumb and index finger are only going along for the ride. The other three fingers are actually holding the club.
The proper position of the club in the bottom hand would depend on what type of grip you would choose, interlock, overlap or ten finger. But grip pressure holding the club would be with the middle and ring fingers.
Always liked Hogan's left hand heel pad grip; but, never liked the club along the root of the fingers of the right hand. And, really it has become universally accepted that the groove of the right hand should go onto the top side of the left thumb. But, what Hogan says, at the end of the Colman video, about the heel pad of the left hand pressing down on the handle, whilst the fingers pull up, is very interesting. And, as an experiment, if you grip the club with just your left hand and get into the address position; and, then press down with your heel pad, whilst pulling up with your fingers, your hand will just simply move forwards. But, in the video it is very notable that Hogan arches his hands out to the ball as he gets into the address position. And, of course, when we arch our left hand it makes the fingers pull up against the handle. So, if you, also, arch your left hand out, as you get into the address position; and, then press down on the handle with the heel pad of your hand, you will find that the club will start back; and, that your left wrist will cup internally. So, it was very much a combination of left hand ulna deviation and left hand heel pad pressure, on the handle, that was the key to his backswing secret. And, really, it is not a move that sets the club into motion. It is a start button, just as it is a start button that triggers the downswing.
How was this video suggested to me today… is YouTube reading minds now? I played my first game of the season yesterday… same old good shot / bad shot routine. But by coincidence, my playing partner had found a copy of Hogan's original book at the local recycle store last week, and he starts describing the thumb position for the lead hand. He seems to be having success with it, so I start trying it. Next thing I know, a lot of my shots are going unusually straight and solid. So we go back to the coarse today, and he tells me about Hogan's lead-hand finger placement on the grip. So I start placing my fingers that way too, and now my shots are going even straighter than yesterday. Now I know that this will sound made-up, but on the first par 3 on the back nine, I hit this beauty of a 5 iron up into a heavy left-to-right breeze, starting about fifteen yards left of the green. Nice contact, starting out where I wanted it. It arcs up above the trees and the breeze hits it and turns it back into the green. It lands the left front of the green and rolls up to the hole and drops right in. A hole-in-one! After 35 years of golfing, my first hole-in-one. So am I sold on Hogan's grip? You betcha!
Interesting, but most modern pro’s have a tendency towards a stronger grip because of modern equipment and balls. They also have the skill to never come over the top. Personally I think Snead had the best golf swing, rhythm and power, Hogans swing was very shallow. Still like the way you explained everything though, really good👍🏌️
Thanks Chris. Great video
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Steve , are you still advocating the Eureka swing method . Your latest driver instruction video ( 4 points + 1 bonus ) showed you standing square to the target line instead of open to target line . Just wondered if there was a change in focus .
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