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How to Grip the Golf Club

Good iron play requires a good grip. Withoutand right hand. This movement can be likened
such a grip it is virtually impossible toto cracking a whip underhanded. A tremendous
control your shots to the green and scoreamount of clubhead speed can be generated
with any degree of consistency. Most golfers,this way, provided you have a proper grip on
particularly beginners, fail to appreciatethe club and are on the proper swing plane
the importance of the grip and its influencecoming  into  the  ball.
on  the  over-all  swing.
On the other hand, if the club is not gripped
After some 20 years of playing golf, both forproperly, you lose control at some critical
fun and as a profession, spending countlessjuncture in the swing and the clubhead cannot
hours of thinking about the swing and how itbe  accelerated  to  its  maximum  speed.
should function, and hundreds of other hours
on the practice tee, I have reached oneThe Overlapping Grip. Although there are many
emphatic conclusion: No one who aspires toways to grip the club, the most effective and
become a good golfer can do so without awidely accepted one is the overlapping grip.
correct  grip.  It  is  as  simple  as  that.This grip promotes excellent unity of the
hands, allowing them to function as a
I experienced trouble with my grip for yearsone-piece unit throughout the swing. The
before I finally made a major change in 1958.overlapping grip places initial control in
Prior to that time, I had been fortunatethe left hand and keeps it there throughout
enough to win a number of tournaments, but Ithe backswing and early in the downswing. The
always had a tendency to hook the ball. Theright hand then takes over and applies the
reason was that I had carried my right handpower  through  the  clubshaft  and clubhead.
under the shaft too much, invariably
resulting in a closed face at the top of thePositioning your left hand on the club
swing.correctly is the first step toward building a
good grip. To obtain this position, place the
In the fall of 1958, Paul Runyan, La Jollaopen palm against the left side of the shaft
Country Club professional, advised me toand then close the palm and fingers around
change my grip. He suggested that I move mythe shaft This puts the shaft under the
right hand slightly counterclockwise, or moremuscular pad and slightly above the roots of
on top of the shaft, to have the clubfacethe  last  three  fingers  of  the left hand.
more open at the top of the swing. These
changes were related, and it took me a monthIt is a little more difficult to position
or more to become accustomed to this newyour right hand on the club, because it is
right-hand  position.the overlapping hand. With your left hand
affixed on the shaft in the correct manner,
By moving my right hand more on top of theextend your right hand down to meet the left
shaft, there were fewer tendencies to havehand. The palm faces toward the target, and
the right hand exert initial control duringthe center of the palm fits snugly against,
the backswing. The right hand merely rides onand over, the thumb of the left hand. Now
the shaft, thus allowing the clubface toclose the fingers around the shaft allowing
remain square, or slightly open, as the bodythe little finger to overlap between the
is turned away from the ball. Also, this newforefinger and middle finger. Actually, the
grip prevented my right hand from taking overlittle finger sort of hooks around the middle
too  soon  at  the  start  of  the downswing.knuckle of the forefinger, creating a firm
yet  flexible  union  of  the  hands.
In the golf swing, the body movements
generate the power and the hands apply itNow it is just necessary for you to go out
through the shaft and clubhead with aand practice.
terrific lashing action of the right forearm



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