www.shawnclementgolf.com Shawn Clement, Director of the Richmond Hill Golf Learning Centre, and CPGA professional, shows you the way the wrists work with the proper grip;check us out for more info at www.golflearningcentre.com
Top 25 Golf Pro Lesson Grip 2 and Wrist Hinge
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Hi Shaun, would you advocate a 10 finger grip ? I’m just getting back into golf (35 yrs old with Kids) after playing enough junior golf myself to be ok, and out playing one day with a sore finger I just switched to 10 fingers with great results, (as I played as a junior) just more control, better release and much cleaner irons……i would be interested in your comments. Ps a very warm thanks and G’day from New Zealand. Your a legend and more often in dressed in Black !!! cheers Peter
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Please have a look at my “golf pro lesson bridging flat wrists with hinged wrists”; if all pros would have a skeleton in their offices, there would not be any confusion!! Look at the anatomy of the wrists and you will see for yourself!! God is the boss here, not Martin Hall!! Thanks for the comment; it will help people!
Shawn are you saying both wrists cock? As I read from some other instructors eg Martin Hall, that left wrist cocks and right wrist bends i.e sideways (and forearm rotates too). Im a little confused. I have been cocking both I think…I suspect this makes my club shaft stray across the line at the top.
Shawn. Is this correct? I thought the right hand wrist hinges sideways, rather than up like the left hand. I think different teachers are giving conflicting information here.
Shawn, I’m a right handed golfer and I tend to put my right thumb parallel with my left at 1 o’clock. It feels uncomfortable to put the right thumb at 11 o’clock as you are doing in the video. Does this encourage a hook?
I am so glad you said this about grip pressure. On most of my shots where I get a good descending blow and take a good divot if my grip pressure is light (like holding a bird) the club head takes the divot and then either (1) Won’t release through correctly or (2) Will turn way right and cause a weird duff. Tightening my pressure and making it airtight allows me to plow through the ball, release and take a good divot! I thought the grip was too tight, but you gave me hope!
Shawn, you don’t have big hands. I use the ENTIRE grip. I can just get my hands between the two double white lines on the Golf Pride grips. The strange thing though is my longest finger is only 3 5/8″ long. According to Lamkin’s fitting chart, they label my hand size as an “L” hand size and not a “XL” hand size. If you ask me, oversize/jumbo grips are for those guys with 4″ long fingers.
Shawn, I have to say I have recently made my grip pressure MUCH lighter and find it very beneficial for me. Too much pressure for me equals tension, jerky movements and most improtantly poor release. So I don’t agree with you on this. On the grip itself, my grip is EXACTLY like yours, except I think shortening the left thumb helps me get more release. Your left thumb seems very extended-but I guess as a very strong player you don’t struggle to square the club face as much-your thoughts??
Bravo… your video was really easy to understand, and now my grip feels much more compact when I grip it easy pressure.
This video has helped me get into a much much more consistant swing. This grip really makes me feel like my hands are a unit for the first time. With this grip the wrists hinge together. With my previous grip my left hand was more weak and my left thumb pointed to 1:00.
With my old grip, one day my right hand would be more dominant in the hinge (great for irons ) and the next day the left hand would win (great for sweeping). I could not have them on at the same time. This video is the key.
The back of both hands are slightly cupped and parallel to each other; see “golf pro lesson bridging flat wrist with hinged wrists; thanks for the question! Shawn
Love the videos Shawn and the DVD! Thanks very much! I have a question and the right hand (for a RH swing). At the end of the backswing, is the right hand palm up to the sky or is the hand vertical? I was surprised to see a Jeff Ritter video saying the palm should be up at the top of the backswing. I do feel like sometimes I’m losing control of the club head in the backswing (actually not knowing the position of the club head) … maybe this is the reason?
You will definitely be the best person to know; the key here is to be able to swing the club back and through like in my “golf pro lesson perpetual motion drill” without anything coming apart and feeling like you can whip the snot out of the club effortlessly and without strain; Shawn
i have real problems getting my grip secure. My thenar eminence and hypothenar eminence are very thin, not alot of fatty tissue and I have very long fingers. A standard size grip is too small for my left hand unless I use a very short thumb, but then I cant fit my left thumb into lifeline of right hand. A long thumb will fit into my lifeline but my fingers dig deep into my hand. I cant seem to squeeze a lager grip as hard.
Thank you!
You are bang on what you should be doing and I applaud you for discovering this for yourself! Many tour pros do this including Anthony Kim, Nick Price, Steve Lowery, and the list goes on; Thanks for the comment! Shawn
Think about the grip this way; you are connecting a new bone to the body to form a club-arm unit hanging from the shoulder sockets; the grip should be secure enough so that when you swing back and through, there is no detaching in any are from the club; see “Golf Pro lesson grip awareness” and “golf pro lesson weak grip or strong grip”; thank you for the question; Shawn
Why don’t other people teach like you? I moved my comment – it seemed more appropriate. After watching many of your videos I noticed that when I choke up a little more, closer to the “golf pride” than you, grip doesn’t move around (I have those marks on the pad of hand), hinging, and get a nice momentum whip easier. Used to hit the ground a lot, but by moving hands up I can maintain posture and clubs have more room to fly through. My clubs are not cut or lengthened. Is this ok in the long run?
Hey Shawn, interesting video…I had a lesson with a golf pro who did in fact talk about things in very similar ways to yourself, but one thing he did say was that I should try to grip the club more loosely.
Now I believe the point he was trying to make wasn’t so much about the grip I had, but in fact the tension that kind of spread to the rest of the area, which was stopping my wrists from hinging properly. Do you think this might have been a result of the grip, or maybe something else?
The best drill that describes what you are asking is the “Golf Pro lesson perpetual motion drill”; I get this question a lot and the answer is not what you think; see also “Golf pro lesson golf swing medicine” and “golf pro lesson momentum toss” part 1 and 2; you will see that gravity and momentum do all the work; Shawn
HI Shawn,
Its so interesting to watch your videos. Now, please guide me through the process of downswing. On the top of the backswing, what is the first move? Or what should be my first thought? And how to do it so that my head is behind the ball at impact and the right shoulder is below the left one and my eyes are able to watch the impact?
Super! Thanks for posting! Shawn
Yes, it means that the body is in the way in the backswing and causing the elbows to separate and the grip gets pulled open; see “golf pro lesson grip awareness” for this; thanks for the question! Shawn
I have seen this grip work very well and every bit as effective as any other; you have my blessing! Shawn
Hi Shawn,
I am curious as to what you this of the Reverse Overlap Grip for the full swing. I started swinging my medicus with this type of grip and surprising the club has a hard time breaking.
Thanks!!