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Learn how this one simple golf swing grip tip can increase your clubhead speed 5 mph!
Have you ever wondered why the end of your grip is tapered in the way that it is? It seems kind of strange given that your pinky on your left hand, it's obviously the smallest finger on your hand, and that's the fattest part of the grip.
Why do you think they designed it that way? And it's also interesting because there's a.
There's some grips out there that are actually reverse tapered, so that this part of the grip is actually the smallest part of the grip.
And it actually gets fatter as you go down the grip where your right hand would be.
So who's right and who's wrong and why did they do this in the first place? Well, it's a great question, and incredibly enough, it's an incredibly important part of your golf swing when you understand it.
So if you don't understand why this is tapered the way that it is, and you don't feel like this tapered part is actually helping your golf swing.
You're gonna start to understand why you probably can't get into those tour quality impact positions, and why you can't pick up the club head.
Speed you think you should have, even though you're swinging at it as hard as you can.
So let's take a look at this.
First thing I want you to understand is one simple piece of math that we're gonna work with.
For every half inch and club link that you go up.
So let's say from your seven iron to your six iron, your six iron's probably about a half inch longer than your seven iron.
You're going to, on average, pick up about two miles an hour of club head speed just for the sake that the club is a half inch longer.
Simple enough right? So for every club in the bag that we go up for every half inch.
We can use that as some very simple, rough estimates as to how much club head speed you're gonna pick up.
That's why the whole concept of a single length set of irons just simply can't work.
By the time you get to your longer irons, you can't pick up enough club head speed to make up for the difference.
So that's why your clubs all have to be a little bit longer than the other.
That and the combination of the loft is what allows you to hit the ball further with a longer club.
So we need that extra half inch per club to help us hit the ball a long ways.
But if you're not using the club correctly, and I'm going to show you why in a second, you're going to not take advantage of that extra half inch.
And you're gonna be able to hit the ball as far as some skinny guy like myself who hits the ball a long ways without a lot of effort.
That's because I'm using the club the way it was designed to be used.
So let's take a look at this.
The one thing I want you to understand is that, and I've talked about this in other videos, is that the golf swing is predominantly left-hand dominant.
Okay, and so when you start to think of it that way, you're gonna start to understand how things fall into place the way that they do.
The problem is, most golfers are right-handed and they're right-hand dominant, and they try to swing the golf club right-handed.
And stuff starts falling apart really fast when you do that.
So here's what's going to happen.
And here, tell me if this is you.
You come into impact and you look like this.
Where you're scooping and flipping it, and your right hand is causing your left wrist to break down.
As this happens, what you're essentially doing is you're making the pivot point on your club further down the shaft.
Whereas the way that I'm swinging with using my left hand to control the club, I'm taking every inch of the shaft and utilizing it to generate speed.
Because my club is pivoting from up here instead of down here.
So now you can imagine if I'm trying to force the club to release.
With my right hand, I have effectively made my iron four inches shorter.
You're not gonna be able to make up four inches of speed no matter how hard you flip it with your right hand.
You have to use the taper and the grip and use the last three fingers in your left hand to allow the club to release with a lot of speed.
And the club should almost feel like it's trying to slip out of your hands and the taper is what's allowing you to hold on to it.
If it wasn't tapered and you swung the club correctly, the club would actually fall out of your hands.
It'd be very hard to hold on to.
So that's why your grips are tapered.
So now, in the next part of this video, I'm gonna show you two simple drills that are gonna help you learn how to understand.
And take advantage of this leverage piece of the swing to get a lot more speed with a lot less effort.
Alright, so now that we've got the concept of why this grip is tapered this way and why you need to use it the way that it was designed.
To get a lot of speed without a lot of effort, we give you the two drills that we need to work on.
So the first one is, I want you to take the grip, take the club and just grip it with your last three fingers.
Literally just hold the club with your last three fingers.
Take the thumb and forefinger off.
And what this is gonna do is it's gonna force you to stop pushing against the shaft with your left thumb, because again, that's gonna move that pivot point down the shaft.
We want that to be as far up the shaft as we can.
So right at the very end is where the majority of our grip pressure is gonna come from.
So what I want you to do? Last three fingers and start making little swings back and through, and as you're doing this, keep the thumb and forefinger off the shaft.
And start seeing how the club wants to and needs to turn over and rotate, kind of around the butt of the club.
And as you're doing this, one of the things I talk about in the clinics, in my lessons, all the time.
Good way of thinking about it is rolling the knuckles under.
So you're taking your knuckles on your left hand, and as you're flattening out that wrist, you're rolling the knuckles under to exaggerate it to where you could see your fingernails.
That's gonna be a hook if you're doing it right, but it's a good exaggeration, especially if you're used to flipping it with your right hand.
This is gonna get you into a flat left wrist position, rotating so I can see my fingernails and releasing it all the way around on the left hand side.
So that's the first drill and you need to practice this as much as humanly possible.
It looks incredibly simple, but what you're gonna find is that you have very little coordination, probably in your left hand, and especially when you take that thumb off of there.
And you may even have a little bit of a weak left hand because we don't use it all the time, so just keep working on this drill and just even hitting little half shots back and through.
This alone is gonna start giving you the feeling of how to get that club to work and release correctly.
Okay that's the first drill.
The second drill is obviously got to put the right hand back on at some point, right? So we need the right hand on there.
It does a lot of things for us.
But what I want you to do is put the right hand on there and we open.
Palm it at first.
And what I want you to start doing is letting your hand come off.
So now, as we're working through and we're releasing the club, my right hand is actually tracing along with the club, but I'm letting it come off.
So from face on, you can see that as my, my left hand is doing the work and my right hand is releasing off.
Now, what we want to start doing this, or transferring this into, is keeping that right hand on there longer and longer and longer.
And I call this the VJ drill.
So what we're gonna do, you're gonna come into impact now.
My fingers are on the club a little bit more and I'm gonna look like VJ or Phil Mickelson or Freddie Couples.
These guys all release the club really, really well with their lead hand and the trailing hand actually comes off, and that's why VJ looks like this.
Hogan didn't understand this.
That's why when they asked him about it, he said, Well, I guess he just doesn't need it there.
He had that part, right, but Hogan thought you really needed to push through with the right side and that's why he looked like this at impact.
You look at the modern player, who has a tremendous amount of club head speed these days.
They release the club very aggressively and let that trailing hand come off.
Because that's all it's going to do with the trailing hand is slow it down.
Because the tighter you hold on with the trailing hand, the more your body has to come through with the release.
The club can't move independently of your body to speed up and it needs to.
So when we let the right hand start coming off like VJ now, all of a sudden the club can speed up really fast.
And you'll see my body, it's actually moving quite slow, but I've got a lot of speed.
So that drill as you start getting into this VJ position where you're letting that hand come off.
The club combined with the first drill of starting to learn to use the left hand, The last three fingers and the left hand only will start to get you into a perfect impact position and get you a tremendous amount of club head speed with very little effort.
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