Re: Grip problems

Allow more then just the grip to be relaxed. Allow your shoulders, arms, wrists AND the hands to relax.

All these together will help you maintain a better grip. But be careful, as many will say that there needs to be a level of tension to maintain the support of all the forces going on in the swing, and they are right. But as a drill, start out relaxing everything and then as you get that feel enables in the grip, you can start to put the right tensions back into the other pieces.

Re: Grip problems

Just a shot in the dark here, but sometimes gripping the club too tight is a reaction to having the club off plane, out of position or out of balance in the swing. In other words, a compensation for some other fault.

Re: Grip problems

My opinion is tight gripping is usually caused by the forefinger (the one you point with) and thumb of either or both hands being over used. You can really play quite well without those two (finger and thumb). Because the finger and thumb activate the other muscles of the arms as opposed to the inner arm muscles. Left hands squeze with the last three finger (pinky, the one next to it and the one you flip people off with)..lol...you can grip as tight as you like with these fingers and still keep the arms and shoulders relaxed. On the right hand just use the middle two pinky really doesn't matter, and it is the same thing. Try it yourself, notice when you use the forefinger and thumb how the muscles on the outside of the arm (from the elbow to the wrist) gets real tight, and that moves upto the shoulders as well, but the inside muscles don't effect much of anything, no matter how hard you tighten them. Give that a try.