Typically, I use the ten-finger/baseball grip. Last time I went to the range though, I was playing around a little with my grip, and I actually started more of a hockey-style grip. What I mean by that is that I used the typical ten-finger grip, but I moved my right hand down about an inch or so, so that it was not touching my left hand. Not a big gap, but significant enough that it “felt” a lot different.

When I swung the club, it felt like I had a lot more control, but I could tell I wasn’t hitting the balls as far. However, the bottom line was that I was driving the ball straight as an arrow, I felt like I had control. I think I can actually feel my lower hand come through the ball and release. I feels like my hand forces the club to be square at impact. I tried doing this a little bit with my long irons too, and had the same results. I hit my 4 iron better than I ever had, and they DID go long.

Does this sound ridiculous? Keep in mind, by me calling it a hockey grip doesn't mean I'm holding it like a hockey stick, that was just the first thing I thought of when my hands were detached. Should I act like I never even tried this and walk away before it becomes a big problem, or should I go with it and take it out on the course?

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haha yeah that does sound weird but bottom line is you have to do what feels best to you, who cares what we think about how you swing the club when you can hit it straight?



timmmay!

You can't argue with the baseall grip. Tiger and Jack did it. Doesn't work for me though.

If it works don"t mess with it .all golfers are looking for are results one way or the other I mess with different styles every time things start going bad. I've come to the conclusion I'm never going to be a scrath golfer so as long as I can play below 90 I'am a happy camper

NothingMan wrote:

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Does this sound ridiculous? Keep in mind, by me calling it a hockey grip doesn't mean I'm holding it like a hockey stick, that was just the first thing I thought of when my hands were detached. Should I act like I never even tried this and walk away before it becomes a big problem, or should I go with it and take it out on the course?

YES - HA!!

The lower your hand goes, the lower your shoulder will go. So you should be able to hit it further with more force, but less consistant......in therory.....since your upperbody will be hard to keep square or in line.

BUT - don't take my advice. The worst thign a golfer can do is listen to another golfer. HA
Listen to a pro !!

I recently changed to an overlapping grip, bringing my right hand A LOT higher and getting my two hands quite close together.
The way it was explained to me was that, it squares up your shoulders, and helps snap your wrists for more consitantly straight shots.

It helped me add almost 100 yards to my drive.


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Interesting. It does make sense to me that you would gain yardage by moving your right hand up as close as you can to the left, but when I try that, I slice like crazy. When I do the ten-finger and put about a half inch between my hands (my left thumb is actually barely touching my right palm), I hit the ball DEAD straight every time, and I seem to be driving further.

However, the only thing that's inconsistent is which direction I hit the ball straight. last night I hit all 7 drives dead straight... 3 down the middle, 2 right (still on fairway) and 2 left (one way out of bounds but WAY long).

Thanks for the comments.