hitters grip

[marc martin]

New to LBG and the golfing machine. Having a hard time staying on plane with the hitting motion unless my grip is alot stronger than before. Just wondering if thats the wright way to correct the problem?

[okie]

"Be sure that your left thumb is always placed on the same line as pressure point # 3, and covered by the cup of the right hand. With strong grips, this places the Thrust of both #1 PP and # 3 PP On Plane" HK 7th Edition

A 10-2-B or strong single action grip is groovy for hitting!

As with everything in TGM it is about geometric alignments, not neccessarily achieving a two knuckle or three knuckle "look." The point of the grip (to me anyway) is to feel the sweetspot...so that I can swing the sweetspot on a pre-selected plane and deliver the sweetspot with a pre-selected hinge action...to produce a pre-selected special purpose!

If the hands are not properly aligned EVERYTHING is askew! Study 5-0 and the variations 10-2-A thru G. That to me is the very first thing to monitor and fix. Everyone would should use a selected "hands to plane."

I remember reading an article about Ian Woosnam shortly after he won The Masters. Apparently he was playing below standard coming into that year's tournament. His coach, or someone, noticed that his grip was more 10-2-A than it needed to be. He moved his left thumb to the aft side of the grip (a move no more than 1/2 an inch and he began to pure it! Why? He was now in touch with that pin sized center of gravity aptly nicknames "The Sweetspot." Don't you just love that feeling!

[lia41985]

"Be sure that your left thumb is always placed on the same line as pressure point # 3, and covered by the cup of the right hand. With strong grips, this places the Thrust of both #1 PP and # 3 PP On Plane" HK 7th Edition

A 10-2-B or strong single action grip is groovy for hitting!

As with everything in TGM it is about geometric alignments, not neccessarily achieving a two knuckle or three knuckle "look." The point of the grip (to me anyway) is to feel the sweetspot...so that I can swing the sweetspot on a pre-selected plane and deliver the sweetspot with a pre-selected hinge action...to produce a pre-selected special purpose!

If the hands are not properly aligned EVERYTHING is askew! Study 5-0 and the variations 10-2-A thru G. That to me is the very first thing to monitor and fix. Everyone would should use a selected "hands to plane."

I remember reading an article about Ian Woosnam shortly after he won The Masters. Apparently he was playing below standard coming into that year's tournament. His coach, or someone, noticed that his grip was more 10-2-A than it needed to be. He moved his left thumb to the aft side of the grip (a move no more than 1/2 an inch and he began to pure it! Why? He was now in touch with that pin sized center of gravity aptly nicknames "The Sweetspot." Don't you just love that feeling!

This was precisely the grip I was using when I was killing my woods.

Thanks for the description. I don't get the part about single action, because I felt like I was cocking and bending both my wrists, and my right arm, to get the club to top. But the feeling was up and down. Rather, with a weak grip, I feel like I have to be conscious in turning my hands to the plane before I cock them to get them up the plane. Does that make sense?

By the way, as good as this action was for my woods and pitching game, it wasn't very good for my iron play or chipping.

[okie]

The conscious turning is probably the start up swivel...or a version of it. Make sure your left wrist is bent and right wrist is flat at address if you are going to start with a swivel. That is standard wrist action 10-18-A. That "turning" is not what you want if you are hitting: i.e. turn-cock-uncock-roll

[lia41985]

Thank you. Oddly enough, I was experimenting more with a swinger's backswing with the weaker grip and bent left wrist and flat right wrist.

[marc martin]

I have changed to a stronger grip so that it wouldn't feel so bad at the top and so I could keep it on plane easier. I'm now having a hard time with my shots going left. The club face fills so closed at the top, I fill like I can't hold it off. any suggestions.

[YodasLuke]

Spend some time in 7-2, where it starts with "The Hand relationship is invariably established at Impact Fix (7-8 )". This is something that I see very few people do, although it can be extremely helpful when done as Homer explained. There are some very important things in 7-2, including the above quote.

[bts]

New to LBG and the golfing machine. Having a hard time staying on plane with the hitting motion unless my grip is alot stronger than before. Just wondering if thats the wright way to correct the problem?

I believe the right arm pushes more strongly with a stronger right hand.