How to Grip a Golf Club

Series Summary

The game of golf originated in Scotland around the 1100's. Since its creation, golf has brought love, heart ache and unbelievable frustration. Whether hooking, slicing or actually hitting the ball straight, all have a passion for the game that's second to none. Of course shaving a few strokes here and there never hurt anyone either. Learn some tricks of the trade that will keep the ball on the green and sitting pretty. In this free video series, get helpful tips and lessons from a professional golf instructor. Learn how to grip a golf club, fix a golf swing, choose and buy golf clubs and even how to calculate a handicap. Find out how to hit a golf ball, hit different golf shots, fix common golf problems and prevent slicing the ball. Finally, discover how to read a putt, practice good etiquette on the golf course and perform different drills to improve a golf game.

Video Transcript

"Hello, welcome. My name is Julio Nutt, I'm a master instructor at the Jim McLean Golf School in Miami, Florida. In this clip we're going to talk a little bit about the grip. It's a very important part of the golf game. How your hands are taking the golf club. Your hands are the only connection to the club, the club, obviously the only connection to the golf ball. So if you have your hands correctly positioned in the club, you're going to be able to rotate, and the club is going to move up by the hinge of your wrist. If you're gripping the club incorrectly then you're most likely to lift the club up with your body and your spine. Now a very important idea with your grip is to make sure you're gripping the club mostly with your fingers. In the left hand, the club is going to come diagonally across your hand. It's going to touch a little bit of the palm under the pinkie finger but then it's going to come across the palm and what's going to happen here, I'm really going to grip the club with the last three fingers of my left hand. Then my right hand is mostly a finger grip, where my hands, my fingers are wrapping around the club and this, this grip here. Just like ripping gripping of a baseball, with your fingers is going to give you a lot of mobility and it's going to let you hinge the club up and it's very important so that you have mobility and you can generate speed through the shot, and this is how you should grip the club."