Technique
How do you hold a golf club?
You hold a golf club by placing your lead hand on the grip first, followed by your trailing hand below it, using one of three common grip styles — the overlap, the interlock, or the ten-finger grip.
For a right-handed golfer, the left hand goes on first, running diagonally across the fingers rather than sitting in the palm, then the right hand follows just below it. How the two hands connect is where the three grips differ: the overlapping (Vardon) grip rests the little finger of the trail hand in the groove between the fingers of the lead hand, and is the most widely taught; the interlocking grip hooks those two fingers together instead, favoured by golfers with smaller hands; the ten-finger, or baseball, grip keeps all ten fingers on the club with no overlap, and suits juniors or anyone with limited hand strength. None is objectively correct — plenty of tour professionals use each — and the right one is largely down to hand size and comfort. Once the grip's sorted, so is what's actually in a golf set. Tell the story properly with our personalised golf gifts.
Written by Craig Fearn, The Golf Gift Co.
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