When you grip the club with the left hand, i know your supposed to grip it with the fingers, but is the grip of the club also supposed to go slightly across the bottom right pad on your palm?
Feels strange doesn't it? You should also hold it fairly lightly and the two hands should fit together and feel as one...master this and it will take you places!
Yea it does feel strange, i really want to try it out but ive been busy at work and with my girlfriend. It feels good and it looks good in the mirror so I hope that carrys over to the course.
In Hogan's book, he reccomends putting a grip on a club for 15 minutes a day until it is ingrained...I did this for two weeks after making a grip change and it helped tremendously...
Yes, and it should stay connected throughout the entire swing...don't let the grip separate from the palm. Shade
How can your left palm pad stay connected on the follow through? The weight of the club head will make the club handle hinge up. So on follow through when your right hand rolls over your left, your left hand is basically underneath the club handle. This means that the handle will push against yoru right hand's palm and separate from your left palm.
This happens to me on my follow through. Can someone explain this? Or am I doing somehting wrong?
Also I read that after you release your left palm should almost face toward the sky and "catch rain drops." But I find it impossible, with the weight of the club head, to release and have left palm face sky. On follow through, I always find my left wrist cupped and my palm is facing my target line.
How can your left palm pad stay connected on the follow through? The weight of the club head will make the club handle hinge up. So on follow through when your right hand rolls over your left, your left hand is basically underneath the club handle. This means that the handle will push against yoru right hand's palm and separate from your left palm.
This happens to me on my follow through. Can someone explain this? Or am I doing somehting wrong?
Also I read that after you release your left palm should almost face toward the sky and "catch rain drops." But I find it impossible, with the weight of the club head, to release and have left palm face sky. On follow through, I always find my left wrist cupped and my palm is facing my target line.
I just tried to make my left palm finish toward the target.... I couldn't make it happen. It just naturally ends up toward the sky. I would think you'd hurt yourself doing that.
I have a book that says left hand grip shoulld be diagonal from middle of palm to first finger,to do this hold the club with your right hand at 45 degree angle and feed it into the left hand,check your grip is,nt too loose and also check you are not getting in your own way at start of follow through ie body turn should happen to let you get out of your own way.
How can your left palm pad stay connected on the follow through? The weight of the club head will make the club handle hinge up. So on follow through when your right hand rolls over your left, your left hand is basically underneath the club handle. This means that the handle will push against yoru right hand's palm and separate from your left palm.
This happens to me on my follow through. Can someone explain this? Or am I doing somehting wrong?
Also I read that after you release your left palm should almost face toward the sky and "catch rain drops." But I find it impossible, with the weight of the club head, to release and have left palm face sky. On follow through, I always find my left wrist cupped and my palm is facing my target line.
I find that my left wrist hinges slightly at the top of the followthrough and my left palm would be facing the target if I was to open it...if I was to follow through too much (knew a guy who hit himself in the back of the head with his driver shaft every single time) then my left palm would be facing more skyward. More importantly, imo, I find that the palm-side of my left forearm is perpendicular to the ground and facing the target at the finish with the right elbow pointing at the target. Either way, the grip doesn't separate from the left palm at the top of the takeaway or at the top of the finish...if it does, it usually indicates the deadly chickenwing or not a full release of the right side of the body (latissimus). If the handle separates from the left palm at any time it is hinging in the fingers of the left hand and with that you will lose accuracy quickly, particulary if it happens at the top of the backswing and "snaps" back in place at impact...this action can also lead to separation in the followthrough.
The back of the left hand should feel like it's facing the target just as the clubface...I imagine aiming the back of the left hand at the target through the impact area. It follows that the back of the left hand should still be facing where the clubface faces at the finish as well, which is directly away from the target. If you keep that in mind and keep the palm connected to the handle of the club then you will have to release the right lat and shoulder ball in order to complete the swing and face the target. Sounds to me like you may not be getting a full shoulder turn after impact. Maybe you could show us some pics?
Not at the finish but on the follow through when the left arm is still relatively straightand the palm is kind of facing the sky. Basically, at this position, the left hand is underneath the club handle. Most of the weight of the club is in the head on the other end. This creates a see-saw effect meaning the handle of the club wants to separate from the left palm.
The only thing I can do to resist separation os hold the club real tight with the last 3 fingers of the left hand to keep it against my left palm. This seems to run counter to the general advice of having a soft loose grip.
Just after impact the weight of the clubhead and centrifugal force should be pulling the club straight out of your left hand...in other words, if you were to let go of the club just after impact it would hit the ground a few feet in front of you down the target line, not fly toward the target. If you let go of the club and it flies anywhere but where the shaft is aiming, then I'd say you likely have a swing flaw, namely "flipping" the clubhead through the impact zone. You've got me curious now and I'd really like to see a video of your swing if at all possible. Also, while you want to grip the club only tight enough to keep it from flying out of your hands, it is possible to grip it too lightly...Penick talked about gripping the club tighter with the last three fingers of the left hand to prevent the clubhead from rolling over in certain cases, such as with a bunker shot...not necessarily relevant to your problem, just illustrating that grip pressure is not always a constant. Let's discuss it some more, I may be misunderstanding you.
October 27th, 2006, 06:04 PM
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