Improve Your Golf Swing Today

For some golf trainers, the very 1st lesson they will teach their students is how to grip the golf club correctly. Why? Because if you don't grip the golf club correctly, it could cause you to slice the golfball almost everytime. Many amateur golfers often slice the ball have reported that their slice disappeared when they learned to fix their grip. Imagine that, you can instantly improve your golf swing just by learning how to grip your golf club correctly.

Actually, there are a few ways of gripping the golf club correctly - the baseball bat grip, an overlapping grip, and an interlocking grip. The Vardon grip, which is the overlapping grip is what many golf instructors teach students. Using the Vardon grip, you place your pinky finger of your trailing hand between your index and middle finger of your lead hand. Both your thumbs point towards the head of the club. This is a great grip if you have larger hands.

You may find that you have trouble using the Vardon grip, you might want to try the baseball grip, also called the ten finger grip. You basically hold the club just like you would a baseball bat, both hands side by side. Usually, this is the easiest way to grip a golf club, and if you have joint pain or small and weak hands or even arthritis, this is more than likely the best grip for you. A very common mistake golfers make when using the baseball grip is seperating their hands. If you do this, you might lose control of your club and FORE, here comes the slice!

Professional golfers such as Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus usually use the interlocking grip. When you grip your golf club in this way, it almost guarantees that both hands will swing the club together in unison. When you use the interlocking grip, you'll intertwine your pinky finger of the trailing hand with your index finger of the lead hand. Basically, its called the interlocking grip because you literally interlock your fingers.

Regardless of which way you grip your golf club, never grip the club too tightly. This is one of the biggest causes of slicing the ball. You want to hold the club firm, but not "choke hold" it, meaning, you want a firm hold while not tensing up your hands or forearms, this makes you feel more relaxed and focused as well as giving you better control.

Another thing that may affect the way you grip your golf club is the size of the handle. When you buy a new club, you may want to go to a pro shop and get your grip measured. If you buy from a normal sports store or even from a yard sale or whatever, you are getting club handles that may be either too big or too small for you personally. This really does make a difference, it may not seem like it would, but it has been proven to help golf swings. You can buy handles and re-grip your clubs if you want to go that route, that way you don't spend a fortune on new clubs, just fix your old ones to fit your hand size, check out a pro golf shop and ask them about getting your grip measuered and about getting grips to fit you.

By: kopp

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