The GOAT Grip
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The correct golf grip is perhaps the most important fundamental in all of golf to get right. Gripping the club like the GOAT will make it easier to square the face consistently and allow you to apply more force to the club to hit it farther without losing control.
When Earl Woods was teaching Tiger the game, he started from the green back and he started with the fundamentals.
And the most important fundamental that Earl stressed to Tiger was the importance of the grip, and not just the grip in any random, haphazard way.
He was really focused on Tiger's right hand or trail hand.
The reason that Earl thought that that was so important for Tiger to master was because it was the closest to the club.
That was Earl's reasoning for placing an emphasis on Tiger's right hand, which is interesting because most instruction over the years is really focused on the lead hand.
But both hands are extremely important, of course, but in a trail hand pattern, nothing is more important than the right hand.
So what I'm going to show you today is the way that you're going to go through the rest of the series, from your putter to the chipping, to the wedge play, to the irons, to the driver, with a proper right hand grip.
And if you don't have a proper right hand grip or trail hand grip, if you're a left hand, you must change this grip.
It must be like this for a couple simple reasons that you're going to learn really, really quickly.
They're going to make your life so much easier.
Nobody likes grip changes, but if you work through it in this program, starting with your putter and working on chipping and wedge play, et cetera, it will be very, very easy to make this change and you'll only have to make it once, but the rewards will far outweigh the effort that's going to take to make this simple grip change.
Because as you're going through it in the sequence that I'm going to work through in the program, it makes it very comfortable and very easy to make this change.
And you'll see immediate consistency results.
And that's what this is really all about is learning how to have instant control of that club face.
The most important thing you've got to get right is the strength of the trail hand grip.
And I'm going to make this really simple, give you one really simple way to think about it.
So I want you to look down at the butt of your club and imagine there's a clock on there.
So 12 o 'clock is the top, the closest to the camera, three o'clock to my right, six o 'clock, nine o'clock.
The simplest way to get this trail hand right and start being able to have instant control with the putter, the chipper, every club in the bag is to focus on your middle finger of your right hand or trail hand.
And the first joint here up by your fingernail, this guy right here.
All I want you to do is put this little crease, this joint point at about 10 o 'clock on your clock on the grip.
So as I start to take my grip, you can see that if I was like this, that would put my grip at 12 o'clock, 11 o'clock, 10 o 'clock.
Once I've got it there, the club's going to sit in the cradle of my fingers correctly.
And these two middle fingers are vitally important.
I'm going to have a little gap to form a little hook with my trail hand.
And then my pinky, once it's on there is going to wrap around with my interlock, or you can overlap as well, tiger interlocks.
And that is how I'm going to teach it.
You can do either one, both work just fine.
The important thing here is getting this notch at 10 o 'clock.
And once your thumb is on there, don't get your thumb to the side of 12 o 'clock.
It needs to sit over here just to the side of midnight or about 11 o'clock on the grip.
So once you have that, That's going to get this line formed by your thumb and forefinger to go right up your forearm towards your right shoulder, you should be able to see your fingernails on the top of the grip.
If you're like this, and they're off to the kind of pointing toward the target, your grip is going to be much too weak.
And you're going to have to do a lot of manipulation with your hands to consistently square the face.
As you're going to go through the program, you're going to see that your grip is the same for every club in the bag.
And so even with your putter, you're going to have your fingernails.
Obviously the putter grip shape is going to be a little bit different.
So it's going to sit on there a little bit different, But what you're trying to get the feeling of is for your wrist to feel like it only has to hinge and unhinge.
That's what, how the club is working through.
Now, of course there's rotation involved and so on, but if your grip is really weak, you're going to have to do a lot of rotation.
If your grip is properly strong with this joint at about 10 o 'clock, then all you're going to have to really do is simply focus on hinging and unhinging.
And then of course the momentum of the club is going to make it rotate over 40.
You don't have to try and do that.
And in fact, if you have to try and do that to square the face, your grip is too weak.
And we see this kind of stuff all the time.
This is going to change the game for you.
It's going to immediately give you control over that club face.
It's going to give you control over trajectory, spin, and over the putter.
You're going to see how easy it is to consistently hit the ball very, very straight, get the ball to start on your line every time with a proper grip.
Now, how do we get this lead hand to work on there?
All it has to do is fit in with this one.
This is your controller in a trail hand pattern.
With a lead hand, we're just going to interlock it in there and get these two lines to roughly match up.
This one is the, is the master here.
This is one telling what the left hand's got to do.
And so now you can see with this line going up my right forearm, this one's going to be roughly parallel to it.
And that's going to get my thumb to sit as my right hand folds over.
So you'll see this little notch in my palm, my, the knuckle of my thumb sits right in there.
And then my hand folds over on top of that thumb to hide it.
And now I've got my grip fixed together.
So this is going to get my left hand properly strong to match with the right.
And now I've got a proper grip that I don't have to try and do anything with my hands to try and square the face.
I use that goat arm to work the club through.
And as I move through, the club face is already de -lofted and squared.
I don't have to do anything.
So carry a club around if you have to, it won't take long to make this change, but it is vital.
And it will make going through this program and make your results happen so much faster.
And you'll become a much more consistent ball striker with just having a proper grip.
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