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Hey Shawn! Having some grip problems. No matter how I change my grip in my fingers I always seem to get movement around my pinky on the lead hand, no amout of in the fingers or grip tension keeps the bottom end of the grip from sliding up. Could this be a problem with grip size? I use standard grips and I wear a L-XL glove.
Yes! That makes sense because I am large for a mid size and Mu is XL and he has JUMBO GRIPS. Get a larger grip installed on one of your clubs like an 8 iron or 7 iron and see how it feels and then do the set.
It feels more natural to have the strong hammer grip with my lead hand using my irons but with my driver it feels a bit unnatural. Question: Is there any change in the fundamentals of the grip between irons and driver?
Depending on the shaft and head specs, some of my students need to open the face more with driver and some need to close more; what matters is when you deliver your action easily and freely into the direction you want the ball to start, that the ball flies in the air the way you want it to. So the same rules apply in the “goldie locks series” on grip and club face angle and in the “draw fine tuning” video.
I have been doing your grip with the club more in the fingers lead hand and heal pad above the grip. Lately my pinky finger deals like it’s taking too much strain and deals sore or almost strained. Any thoughts, is the club too much in the fingers and the club should be more in contact with the heal pad. Can’t keep doing what I am doing. Glove size XL cadet for reference.
Thanks Shaun
Hi Craig! Definitely not stay at the expense of strain. The key is to feel a SECURE grip and if you applied the walking drill or the “kinetic chain facilitation series” #6 to it, that it would feel great during the whole activity without moving. So worry way less about positioning and way more about the feel of security and compression.
Hi Shawn–this is not about the grip, but a question on the video about how to use the site. I couldn’t find a place to comment there. Your work is…excellent–I don’t have enough time to write enough flowery comments right now–but imagine I did, and will later. Here is the question–when you say “find a proper task” I interpret that as meaning find whatever task does the best job for you as an individual in getting you to think about and “feel” the golf swing in the correct way that produces the best results for you. Is that accurate. BTW–just bought a grass whip, I can use one, and looked like a good practice aid!
Awesome William! Yes, that is spot on! My favourites are the “task update” where this can be done with “throwing the club” with the “prediction” that the stem of the dandelion is in the way of that throw which gets ball position, distance to ball, levels, and grip and club face all in line with the task. The videos for that are “task trumps everything”, “Top 3 tasks”, “task update”, “the throwing series”, “the goldielocks series” and then deeper with “pre-motor cortex series” and “target confirmation series”
Take your time, there is so much good stuff to digest and it is a blast to discover!
Hi Shawn, I’ve been struggling with my grip for years. My coach says it’s fine but the club always wiggled in my hand. I’d also wear a hole in my golf glove in a couple rounds. Also I always had lead thumb pain if I release the club aggressively.
I checked out the video and realized I play with my lead thumb off to the side of the grip instead of on top. I was able to fix that and get the club more in my fingers; however, I’ve noticed that I feel a LOT of tension in my thumb pad joint (palm side of the snuff box). And after a few of those perpetual swings I start to feel pain/fatigue in that part of my hand. I play with jumbo grips and thought that might be the problem but I even feel it with standard grips. I’ve also experimented with a short vs long lead hand thumb. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.
Hi Jeremy! You are close! The thumb looks a tad long and the grip does look a tad big; maybe Mid size would be better; My hand is Men’s Large and my grip size is standard plus 4 wraps under. Midsize is too big for me and fatigues the hands. See a couple youtube videos I made for this called “stop letting go of your grip shawn clement” and “stop destroying your golf glove shawn clement” and there is another one that should pop up along the same lines; there is a good acid test with the lead hand in there.
On premium, see the latest off season training series where the first 2 or 3 videos are about “leverage in the grip and release”