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Hey Shawn, I’ve been away from your fantastic channel for a couple of months and I’m doing a bit of catching up.
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Thank you dearly for this video, great food for thought once again. I’ll experiment with my grip pressure tomorrow when I go out for a practice round.
I’d just like to share that a little while ago, my putting really improved when I felt the weight of the ACU as you’ve suggested. To do that I had to loosen my grip pressure, or else I pushed it right in trying to manipulate the putter instead of letting the weight of the putter fall. But then one day my putting went awry for a few holes and my golf mate commented that my grip was too loose. He was right, my putter was too wobbly, I’d gone a bit too loosey goosey, too far mumma bear (I’m probably not allowed to say that anymore haha). So with a slightly firmer grip, but still feeling the weight of my putter, my putts were back on the intended line. Recently, though, I’m missing too many 3 footers due to too much grip pressure because I want to make them drop too much, trust issues I suspect hahaha.
Best wishes, Mike G
Right on Mike! Remember that once you have set up with the putter, and have done an acid test as to the balance and it feels like it wants to track in the direction you want to roll the ball, it is now out of your control, you simply see the ball roll in one more time At the speed you want to roll into the hole with and then let the machine react to what you saw. Keep going!
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That part for me needs some more work and adjustment. I had a session experimenting with the grip pressure and ended up with my left forearm muscles aching. I also have some trouble separating the tension I put in the grip from the one I put in the rest of my body. In short while squeezing hard on the club I have issues swinging smoothly. I will see if dialing back the pressure a little bit helps.
Absolutely; and so often I see the lead hand in an improper position; it has to feel like when you whip the club, the hands react effortlessly and give you the pressure you need to match the situation. If you have an ache or sore forearms at the beginning, it could be fine since you were not used to it; see Munashe’s grip pressure exercise with the rice bucket; they should feel like you worked them out that way. And then it should go away when you are stronger and it should not persist.
Hi ShaWn,
I have a question about the golf grip. It is not brought up in your grip videos or in the grip chapter by Brandel Chamble. When taking the grip should the V’s be in line with each other or can they be off-set. Thanks!
We never talk about where the V’s point because it is so different for everyone and we are terrible at positioning body parts; see the video we did in the beginner series and the first one we did in wisdom 1.0 and in the premium chronological list at the bottom of the list; these are the most complete grip videos you will ever see!!
Shawn
My lead hand is about a 6 and trail hand is about a 1 at set up. Very common for Phil. VJ, And many more
Ok, cool! How is that working? Are your hands able to stay on the club?
Yes, the grip pressure slightly increase through impact . When I tried very tight grip pressure my swing got slower , more heel impact, less than 100 mph in swing speed. Keeping at 6 and 1, swing speed can go back up 10 125mph with a better release. Your body has to move away from the direction of where club is going.
Wow, that is significant! Thank you for that feedback!
sometimes I experiment with holding tight with only the middle fingers; seems that way it’s a tight grip without tight forearms.
Makes sense because you don’t hold the club with the index or thumb of the trail hand and the pinky or\f the trail hand and index of lead hand are for bringing the hands together. So 5 fingers are holding the club:
Lead hand Pinky-Ring-Middle
Trail hand ring and middle
Good observation!! 😀👍