Loosing Your Grip
By Kim Metsgar
June 22, 2007
It's mid June and we are all going to weekend tournaments and playing 9 hole scrambles at various courses. By this time in the season we are playing fairly good golf and have our techniques pretty much set for the season...and then it happens.
You take your club back and realize that you have lost your grip and then scramble to regrip which causes the clubhead to get out of alignment and when you strike the ball, nobody knows where it is going!
Most of the time we lose our grips at the top of the swing and even though we should not grip a club too tightly, I have a some pointers for maintaining control of the club.
1. Wrap the last three fingers of you left hand fairly firmly around the club's butt end.
2. Apply some slight pressure with your left thumb as you place the lifeline of the right palm upon it.
3. Apply some pressure from your right index finger as it pushes against the shaft, sealing your grip.
One of the first things I remember somebody telling me when I first started trying to learn the game of golf, which is a never ending process, was to place two or three blades of grass between the fleshy heel of the left hand then put the rest over the left thumb, extended down the shaft, to be trapped by the fleshy part of your right hand as you place it over the left.
Try this using a wedge and hit some shots to make sure your hands are in the same place when you complete the swing as they were at address. This means you did not lose the blades of grass during your swing. This will help with hands-on control.
I still do this when the wheels fall off on my golf swing and most of the time it is where my hands are that are causing the problem.
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