One Basic Golf Swing Grip at a Time

One Basic Golf Swing Grip at a Time

I would like to focus the jest of this article on the basis golf swing… the grip. With spring in the air and golf on our minds let’s get this year off to a good start by not overlooking the basics.

Unquestionably the biggest mistake I see in people’s golf swing isn’t in their basic golf swing itself. Nope. Not at all.

More often than not the mistakes happen before the basic golf swing even begins. The first mistake is made in how the golfer holds the golf club. After that the next mistake usually comes in with how they stand up to the ball. Poor posture. Then after having two strikes against them, they then finish the job of making it almost impossible to hit a good golf shot by improperly lining up to their intended target.

Of course, after hitting several (possibly several hundred) balls with only a minute few being what they think is acceptable the tired frustrated golfer asks… what am I doing wrong with my basic golf swing?

For this purpose, I want to discuss the very first part of the proper golf swing … the golf grip. In fact, let’s be even more precise here; the left hand grip on the golf club. Oh sure… there’s much more than just the grip including the aforementioned posture and alignment. But there’s only so much typing I can do at one time so let’s stay with the grip for this communication.

The position of your club face is greatly influenced by your grip. And this is especially true as your club face enters the impact zone and contacts the ball. Certainly there is an abundance of golf swing peccadillo’s that can occur that can cause those woeful golf shots. You know the ones I’m talking about: the banana ball, the smothered hook, skied, skulled, and chili dipped. Ok, I’ll stop… If you’ll stop trying to correct your basic golf swing by in incessantly hitting ball after ball trying to make every physical adjustment known to man (and some that aren’t) within your golf swing itself and begin by using a fundamentally sound grip.

So you’re going to continue on with me… great! Let’s talk about the left hand (right handed golfers) first and foremost.

The left had should come in contact with the grip of the club in such a manner that the grip cuts a diagonal across the palm of the left hand from the crook in the index finger down and across to the bottom right pad of the left hand.

When you close your left hand, your club should be held in the first to fingers and your palm.

The key that you look for out of your left had grip is quite simple. As you address your ball and look down, you should only see two knuckles of your left hand. As an instructor standing directly across from you, I too should only see the same. If I don’t see EXACTLY two knuckles of your left hand then we take a step back and re-grip until we get it right. And don’t try to cheat and re-grip club just as you begin to take the golf club away and into your back swing. FOUL I say. And I will stop you.

Ok. I certainly haven’t given you that much to remember here. But seriously golfers, resign yourself to go through a quick, short checklist before you begin the journey we call the golf swing. Start with your grip. Get used to it. A proper grip will feel awkward to you particularly if your grip has been way off. Stay with it. Know that it’s the right way to grip the golf club. Piece by piece let’s lay the foundation for a basic good swing.

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Practise Your Basic Golf Swing

Practise Your Basic Golf Swing

Their area great many books and video's around at the moment showing you how to improve your basic golf swing but the basics are actually very simple. Naturally, one of the best and quickest ways to make your swing better is through plenty of practice. Although there are a lot of good tips in many of the books and videos nothing compares to practice as the best way to improve your basic golf swing.

On the whole, the more you practice the better you will eventually become, of course if you are doing the basic golf swing wrong then it won't help to practice other than to give you the experience to improve. However, most people who have been playing for a while know the basics well enough and just need to learn how to make the adjustments that will help them to make their game that much better.

Unfortunately, many people new to the game of golf continue to follow every new trend to try to find the one thing that will help them to improve their basic golf swing when in all actuality they probably already know most of what is essential to hitting a golf ball correctly. If you pay attention to what you are doing in your swing and practice to improve it then you will begin to see some benefits. You will get to know your game better and you will begin to see how small adjustments, if practiced, can have a very large effect on how well you play.

There is very little point in just trying a new system of improving your basic golf swing and then, in the event it doesn't work, moving on to the next thing. Trying to improve your golf game in this manner will not allow you to see the benefits that real practice and dedication can bring. All professional golfers know that the main thing that will improve their game is practice. It is no different for the average golfer. A lot of the books and videos that show you how to improve your golf swing will advocate the idea of practice makes perfect and to be honest many of them give you very similar advice, after all there are only so many ways that you can swing a golf club.

If you get some good instruction on your basic golf swing to make sure that you have it right then you can really improve your swing best by practicing. You will get to see where you can improve and what to do if you are not playing at your best. Although this does not seem to be a simple as the books and videos say it should be, at least you know that with hard work and dedication your golf game will continue to improve by getting better and better and that you will have achieved this yourself.

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