Page 10 - The Grip

league pitcher, said that if a pitcher wants the ball to go

slower, he will hold it tighter during the throwing motion. It’s

a perfect analog to the golf swing: if you want to swing

slower, hold the club tighter, to swing faster, hold it lighter.

The lesson here is that you have to hold the club as lightly as

possible without allowing your grip to be loose.

As I was writing this, I remembered the summer after I

graduated from high school, (I know, that’s a long time ago)

I worked at the golf course and did a lot of manual labor,

particularly using a Flymo, a hover mower that had to be

repeatedly swung from side to side, often on a slope and for

hours at a time. My hands and forearms got incredibly strong,

and I noticed that on the golf course I had the best accuracy

and distance that I’d ever had.

How to hold

the club

There are three basic ways to grip the club that account

for 99% of all golfers. The Vardon or overlapping grip, the

interlocking grip and the baseball or 10-finger grip. Each

grip style has its benefits, but the Vardon grip is probably