A good golf grip is the starting point  in every movement that follows in  the game of golf.  In putting you are dealing with an  extremely small target and a very  short stroke.  Even a slight  misjudgment can mean a significant  miss, and your grip is what makes  the difference.

Golf Grip Fundamentals:

The position of your hands has a  direct effect on the position of  the putter, therefore it has a  direct relation to the putt you  make.  Regardless of the fact that  putting allows for a great deal of  individuality, there are certain golf grip fundamentals that you must follow:

* The palms of both hands must be  parallel to each other.  This  makes it possible to accurately  judge the position of the putter  face.

* Your thumbs should lay down the  top of the shaft, one above the  other.  Putters frequently have  flat tops, allowing this  positioning to be easy.  Putting  the thumbs on the top of the shaft  puts control of the putt in the  fingers, taking it away from the  thumbs.

* Your palms should press on the  sides of the club, with your  fingers wrapped around it, it  gives the control of the feel to  your fingers and allows your palms  to control the power of your  stroke.

* Your hands need to be linked,  this keeps them working as one  unit rather than fighting each  other, when your hands dont work  together, your shot wont come out.  Using these fundamentals as a  unit, you can be sure of little or  no movement during your stroke,  which allows the putter to return  to the correct hitting position on  its own.

Keeping your wrists firm controls  the stroke with the larger muscles  of the arms rather than the  smaller less stable muscles of the  hands and wrists.

While putting you should feel very  little with the fingers, they  simply keep the face of the putter  in place.  The palms of your hands should  have the most feeling as they are  pushing the butter through on a  straight line to the face of the  club.

Just grip it and rip it! Some of the sagest golf advice you’ll ever hear. Just grab the club and swing and forget about everything else. Grip it incorrectly before you rip it however, and you will end up somewhere in the woods on the right or in the water on the left searching for your $4 ball.There are lots of pitfalls to avoid if you want to hit it straight. If you position both of your hands too far clockwise on the grip, otherwise known as a strong grip, you will tend to close the face of the club before contact and therefore hook the ball (for a right handed player). If you take a weak grip with your hands rotated too far counter-clockwise, you will tend to leave the clubface open and slice the ball. Hold the club too much in your palms and you will reduce your ability to cock your wrists, leading to a loss of power. Too much in the fingers and it will be difficult to control the club, reducing your consistency.Now, you can see how important it is to get your hands on the club in the correct way. Of course, there is no single right way for everyone, some players will tend to have a slightly stronger grip, some weaker. Some will use an interlocking grip, some an overlapping. But there are elements of the grip that are common and necessary to everyone, and it is important to master them if you want to lower your scores.Fortunately, people have already figured out the best elements of a good grip, and there are lots of golf training aids that make it vastly easier than it used to be to correct bad habits. Molded grips, training clubs with molded grips, and grip attachments are all extremely useful to enhance your grip. Here are a few tips for selecting a golf training aid that will maximize your benefits:1. Make sure the training aid can be used to hit balls. Short clubs with molded grips are useful, but nothing beats actually hitting shots to groove the new grip. I prefer training aids that attach to the grip of your real clubs, so that you can use them during a practice round under game-time conditions.2. If you use an interlocking grip, make sure the training device allows it to fit comfortably. Some molded grips are designed with only the overlapping grip in mind, so get the thing in your hands and test it out before you buy one.3. Practice regularly with the training aid, but make sure to alternate it with a regular club so you get used to making the grip yourself without the aid. When hitting at the range, hit 5 shots with the device and 5 without it until the grip is rock solid, then you can reduce the use of the aid, using it to hit 5 or 10 shots only at the beginning of the session.Good luck and happing ripping!

Just grip it and rip it! Some of the sagest golf advice you’ll ever hear. Just grab the club and swing and forget about everything else. Grip it incorrectly before you rip it however, and you will end up somewhere in the woods on the right or in the water on the left searching for your $4 ball.
There are lots of pitfalls to avoid if you want to hit it straight. If you position both of your hands too far clockwise on the grip, otherwise known as a strong grip, you will tend to close the face of the club before contact and therefore hook the ball (for a right handed player). If you take a weak grip with your hands rotated too far counter-clockwise, you will tend to leave the clubface open and slice the ball. Hold the club too much in your palms and you will reduce your ability to cock your wrists, leading to a loss of power. Too much in the fingers and it will be difficult to control the club, reducing your consistency.
Now, you can see how important it is to get your hands on the club in the correct way. Of course, there is no single right way for everyone, some players will tend to have a slightly stronger grip, some weaker. Some will use an interlocking grip, some an overlapping. But there are elements of the grip that are common and necessary to everyone, and it is important to master them if you want to lower your scores.
Fortunately, people have already figured out the best elements of a good grip, and there are lots of golf training aids that make it vastly easier than it used to be to correct bad habits. Molded grips, training clubs with molded grips, and grip attachments are all extremely useful to enhance your grip. Here are a few tips for selecting a golf training aid that will maximize your benefits:
1. Make sure the training aid can be used to hit balls. Short clubs with molded grips are useful, but nothing beats actually hitting shots to groove the new grip. I prefer training aids that attach to the grip of your real clubs, so that you can use them during a practice round under game-time conditions.
2. If you use an interlocking grip, make sure the training device allows it to fit comfortably. Some molded grips are designed with only the overlapping grip in mind, so get the thing in your hands and test it out before you buy one.
3. Practice regularly with the training aid, but make sure to alternate it with a regular club so you get used to making the grip yourself without the aid. When hitting at the range, hit 5 shots with the device and 5 without it until the grip is rock solid, then you can reduce the use of the aid, using it to hit 5 or 10 shots only at the beginning of the session.
Good luck and happing ripping!

Have you ever had anyone say to you “Get a grip on yourself?” Or “He’ s got a good grip on reality.” Getting a “grip” is not only important in life, but is essential to playing great golf. The golf training grip is a universe unknown to most people, but if a golfer doesn’t know about it… then his or her game will suffer tremendously.
I never really thought of the golf training grip as very important to my golf game until I hurt my wrist doing some construction work a few years ago. In fact, I strongly feel that this painful experience was very useful (not fun at all), but useful – useful in getting my conscious attention. It is not just a good golf training grip that we’re discussing here; it’s the application of consciousness to every aspect of playing golf, with the golf training grip as just one aspect to increasing your ability!
Just look at Tiger Woods. He brings focus and one pointed concentration to his game of golf, and this includes his golf training grip. Here are 3 aspects of Tiger’s game that we can easily incorporate for our own golf and golf training grip.
1) Concentration – Concentration, according to the Webster dictionary is the direction of attention on a single object. Of course, implied here is that you have the ability to concentrate and that you have done the prescribed work to accomplish concentration. Focus is the result of concentration. By the way, happiness is also one of the measured results of concentration. So, go ahead and concentrate on your golf training grip and just see what happens.
2) Application – Once the attention is gathered up from all the distractions of life and focus is gained, that’s when the application phase comes into play. This might explain all those so-so rounds of golf over the past twenty years – whoops! Concentrate, focus and then apply the energy.
Deciding what is worth applying that energy to is also a useful exercise. Why? Because we live in a stress filled world that pulls and tugs on us – that’s why. It’s not just your golf training grip that wants and needs attention. It is though, the point at which we’d like to put some attention when we are approaching the first tee next Saturday morning. Give it a try.
3) Results – If we are successful in our golf training grip experiment, the signs will show and our game will improve. Once perfected, the attention can be directed as required to almost any activity. It’s not about multi-tasking though as everybody thinks; it’ s about gaining mastery over the self and that’s a good thing, that’ s a very good thing indeed.

www.rdbgolftips.com – Download this tip FREE on Ron’s site. Ron del Barrio talks about his Passive Golf Method that involves head rotation and following the eye line when hitting through the ball.

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John Lubin of The John Lubin Golf School (www.johnlubingolf.com) shows us the proper grip technique.