Proper Golf Grip

There are many theories as to just what is a
proper golf grip.
All have some validity to an extent and just about all miss the point.
It is useless to invest your time, money and effort into developing a preferred grip if you don't have the sensitivity, awareness and dexterity to apply it properly.
It may seem strange but the sensitivity and connection of your golf grip directly influences the accuracy and to a lesser degree the power of your swing.
This is outside the actual shape or technique you use with your grip.
In golf, two people with exactly the same technique will have very different levels of effectiveness and accuracy. Part of this is the sophistication you can bring to this part of your golf game.
There is much more that can be done than just putting on a golf glove.
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Tension in any part of the body will result in interference with the overall function, in this case the golf swing.
It is mostly with your golf grip that last second inaccuracies can occur.
The tightening of just one finger will do it.
Difficult to be aware of this, even with a text book proper golf grip, along with everything else you are attending to that can influence your golf game.
There is a way to bring extreme sensitivity and control to your hands and then build it in automatically to your golf grip and your swing.
You want to be powerful and sensitive, steady and relaxed. In control of your golf swing and your golf game.
Develop a refined golf grip
These exercises work through the nervous system - not the muscles as such.
This is the elegance of the Feldenkrais Method and it allows us to fine tune, change and develop your actual golf grip and swing to extremely refined margins.
Imagine bringing the sensitivity and timing of a piano maestro to your golf grip - the dexterity of a micro surgeon.
Usually, other than putting on the golf glove and gross basic positioning of the fingers no real attention is put on the actual quality of your golf grip.
In fact it is essential and a major leverage point for us.
Your proper golf grip is yours to discover.
Develop your sense of touch with your golf grip even in the moment of your club making contact with the ball. The golf swing is a dynamic unfolding event that should be recreated with full awareness each time.
Each swing will be different to a degree - subtle nuances to adjust to - wind, distance, slope, speed of the green, current score and so on...
The golf grip is an important aspect of this.
So which is the best or proper golf grip?
You will never find out until you develop your capacity to sense subtle differences and to control each finger at a micro level.
Until you do this it is akin to asking a brick layer to critique piano technique - with respect to all piano playing brick layers out there.
It is amazing how much you can develop yourself with this skill.
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