Cowen's Weird Grip Method Really Does Work

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[grahamjones]

Great video, im halfway there! as years ago watched a lydia ko video(not on grip!) to see how a little girl gould hit it so well.Noticed she literally wrapped her hands around the grip, hard to describe but imagine linking hands together palm up then wrapping them round the grip like squeezing a towel! helped get me down to 5hcp at 63, hoping this video will get me lower!

[johns]

Russ - can you do a video on forearm rotation? - best practices with it, better impact, more yards, etc

[MrAMusicPlace]

Pete calls the wringing hands equal and opposite forces. A benefit is that is prevents closing the club face during the swing.

[nanidaddy]

Love this it’s amazing at impact how stable the face is smash factor up and ball speed up I do swing 1/2 mph slower but the ball speed and smash factor and ball spin makes up for it

[cdunne]

..I have experimented with this a bit, if the twist (very slight) due to the right hand is say 30% anti-clockwise then I make sure the twist from the left hand is 30% clockwise to oppose or balance it. For me this helps a lot with putting to maintain quiet and neutral hands and I sink more putts.

For my next trick I’m currently trying the same with all other clubs to keep the hands working together and neutral from a club shaft twist perspective. I’ve found my backswing feels completely different when I do this. It feels more rounded and free. It’ll take time to adjust though but I think it’s probably correct, try it but be warned your first few shots won’t be pretty

[mikelpikel]

After watching this video I've been out in the garden hitting practice balls with this method. Have not had a single bad contact in three sessions. And I'm normally about 50% good contacts at best. Maybe I'm just having a good day, but I doubt it. Thanks Russ, and Pete of course.

[Robin-Cj]

Your thumbnails shows to twist hands inwards, and you explain it as if we should twist outwards, please clarify because it makes a HUGE difference

[alor]

It is an inward twist according to Cowan, and he frames is as how the forearms should work in the downswing

[andrewtopping]

Sorry to "steal your thunder" in my comments a few days ago. Still, "wringing out the towel" is one of the best tips ever.

[xrated]

This also stops you rolling your wrist open and tugging your club inside before you’ve even started turning. My issue!!!

[SteveN-dfxy]

Good stuff but the grip is not Cowen's original idea - American teachers Harry Obitz and Dick Farley taught this 'towel ringing' grip concept  in their book 'Six days to better golf' many  years ago .

[Mango_B]

I'm a RH golfer. What should I be doing with my left thumb? It's hard to relax it when it's snug into my right palm. I feel myself pressing my left thumb against the grip, maybe a little too much. Solution?

[Pwilli-hsyi]

I swing as hard as I can to hit my 7 iron 150 yards, but mostly only goes 130 on a good strike, 120 fat.
Then I'm blocked by the trees, gotta hit it low, just 100, to get a good angle for my wedge into the green. So I take a 1/4 swing with my 7 iron, no effort, clean strike, easy, it goes 120 into the hedge down the road!!!
What is going on?

[bigglesthwaite]

I watched Pete Cowan’s grip advice recently: the hands are working in opposition against one another to stabilise the club face so it neither opens nor closes through impact. I’m not it needs to be especially forcible, just an equal amount with each hand… Doe’s it work…?

[mattbrown]

I feel like an idiot. I have seen pete Cowen talk about this multiple times and had really been trying to implement it into my swing. However, I have been "wringing the towel" in an inward rotation, and it's turned my draw into a push fade and my hands into an aching mess😂

[SMUGAMER]

Watched Cowan talk about wringing the towel years ago and gave it a go multiple times. After the honeymoon period wears off, it just adds another variable to contend with, such as which hand is the dominant hand therefore it applies more pressure, which throws things off balance, which creates more and work in the long is why I think we dont see any major success from his pro

[CraigFairbanks-vbbc]

When I do this my grip becomes tighter making more tension in the forearms, maybe I'm doing it wrong

[CptTenneal]

"You're" doing it wrong.