Tom Watson on How To Improve Your Golf Grip | Golf Tips | Golf Digest

PGA Champion golfer Tom Watson shows you how to improve your grip on the golf club. Proper grip pressure is a must if you want to hit better shots.

Transcript:

"When I play in pro-ams or with amateurs and I see this. I know that person has too much grip pressure, they're gripping on to the golf club way too tightly. This chapter is about the proper grip pressure.

First of all, let's talk about where the pressure points are on the grip. Pressure points in the grip on the left hand are these last three fingers of the left hand. They grip the golf club like this.

In the right hand, it's the middle two fingers right here that hold on to the golf club in the right hand. It's not the forefinger and the thumb, but it's the middle two fingers of the right hand.

You don't want to increase the pressure at all in the golf swing. It will increase naturally in the downswing with the centrifugal force, but it doesn't get really tight at any time in the golf swing. Especially the right hand.

You want that right hand, when it's in the hitting area right there, to be able to be flexible and just fire through there like that, compressing the ball and creating club head speed."


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[slatt]

Yes ! I love the way he talked about the right hand being loose and firing through the shot; could really see his right hand turn over through impact. ! !

[gilramsey]

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[oregonone]

Now that's is an excellent tip---thanks

[TingBunna]

this helps a lot, especially with my driver and woods I find that I've got my club with a salami vice grip thinking it's giving me optimal distance

[garthdownton]

Centripetal force is correct ! This is what creates centripetal acceleration ! It is an inward force the hands etc. apply to the shaft thus club head speed is increased ! You would never have circular motion without centripetal force . The ball experiences the effects of that acceleration in the form of the imaginary force known as centrifugal force . Note the forces act on two different bodies, the ball and the golf club, independent of each other. The ball flies off on a line tangential to the arc of the club head . Straight if the swing is correct !!!! Few experience that !! Lag in the golf swing is all about getting into position to create centripetal force, no lag, no power !

[garthdownton]

No one created centripetal acceleration better than T. W. !!!

[streamleazefishhouse]

Why would grip increase due to centripetal force?

[mikefixac]

I don't know who this guy is, I'm just learning golf, but that dude has one weird swing. I'll bet he doesn't break 100.