Is your grip strain too tight? A prime trainer shares the best way to inform

With regards to grip strain, Sam Snead has maybe the sport’s most well-known steering on the subject, suggesting that gamers ought to maintain the membership like they might a child chicken.

However GOLF Prime 100 Trainer Jason Baile disagrees.

In a video posted to Titleist’s YouTube web page, Baile argues that grip strain itself isn’t the enemy of the golf swing — as an alternative, it’s all about how and the place it’s exerted on the membership.

“If I have been a baseball participant hitting a 90-mile-an-hour fastball, the very last thing I’d be doing is holding this bat like a child chicken,” Baile says. “We all know that energy is an enormous a part of our sport. So I’d say [to Snead], it’s extra about the place you grip it and the place you apply that strain.”

The issue, Baile says, is that many gamers grip the membership tightly with downward strain.

“That’s gonna ship a number of rigidity to my forearms, my shoulder and possibly my decrease jaw,” he says. “I wish to make it possible for I’ve all that grip strain pulling up.”

When grip strain is directed this manner, Baile says, it lets you retain your energy in addition to your management.

“If I pull up into the grip, I can nonetheless have supple wrists, elbows and tender shoulders, however but have actually good management of the face,” he says. “So once I step in there, I wish to really feel that grip strain pulling up with my fingers, enjoyable my forearms, my shoulders and my jaw. I could make a really intentional swing and nonetheless have management of the membership face.”

To summarize: make it possible for grip strain feels prefer it’s pulling up, not pushing down as you swing, and also you’ll know you’re doing it proper.

To look at a video of Baile’s tip in its entirety, click on right here.

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