Best Ways To Hold A Golf Club

Holding a golf club correctly is crucial to hitting the golf ball in the right direction. By holding the club correctly you can shave several swings off of your game. Get more great golf videos at: http://www.GreatGolfInstruction.com

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Hi! This is Kris Moe, I run Kris Moe Golf School and I would like to share a tip with you, especially for the newer golfers out there, that are still grappling with the right way to hold the gold club because it's not easy and will take some practice, but let me give you a little overview. Actually I have got a club here that's got some -- these put on and that's going to help us with this demonstration, but one of the first things you are going to need to do is hold the club up like this with the leading edges pointing to the ground and you are going to put it in your fingers. The most common thing as everybody wants to hold it with a straight line here. The reality is you are actually going to be holding this on an angle. This can be down in the fingers more and this is going to allow you to hit the golf ball with more authority and hold the club much lighter. Okay, so we are going to hold the club down on the fingers and you will see this V here is going to be pointing to my right shoulder, okay. So it's a little kind of intuitive there. It's not going to on top of the club like most hold it. It's actually going to be over here. Okay, you are probably going to be seeing through the four knuckles on your left of your left hand. Now the right hand is going to come in and slide down, look how diagonal the right hand is on the club, it's not like this, okay? One more thing here is what's happening in the left hand, the left hand is holding it also in the diagonal, okay, right hand slides down. Now you can hold it ten finger or if you like you can overlap the pinky on top of the fore finger or you can even interlock these fingers. This right hand is going to slide down and I am going to try to get your left thumb in the lifeline of the right palm so when you are holding it the palm will be parallel to each other like so. Okay and now the crease between the thumb and fore finger, that V can be pointing to your right shoulder as well. It's going to look like this; it's nice and smug, okay. And one of the keys here is definitely, again so much kind of intuitive. Your thumb or your fore finger is going to have a little space between it and the middle finger. This is going to be really important in helping you feel the correct pressure when you are pulling down on the golf club. I find that most people hold it with a very long thumb and they want to push down with the thumb. Your thumb is not going be that much in the golf swing, it's going to be a lot more of your fore finger and that trigger finger what we call it is going to enable that sensation, okay. It really goes it feel like the right hand is doing this, so the thumb is not going to be doing a whole lot, so that's the way you hold the golf club. If you have any questions, you go to our website, krismoegolfschools.com. I hope that's a good fundamental lesson for you, you can practice it, get the club up like this in this position and another way is to curl your fingers and drop the handle into it, get your left hand on correctly. Wish you all the best with it and if you have any questions get in touch with us. Thank you.