Golf Grip Pressure is NOT What You Were Taught
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- Pro golfers hold the club much tighter than the average player and now you will see scientific data to help your golf game.
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Thanks for covering this topic. Watched a TH-cam video presenting data (long PowerPoint presentation and discussion) last year which basically showed that tour players have a ton of grip strength so their 50% is like an amateur at much higher. So I started working on grip strength and without any speed training picked up around 3mph swing speed. Great video Matt, thanks!
Video was titled “Grip pressure: a comparative analysis across golfers. Posted by The Golf Lab.
th-cam.com/video/jkgagvyz8rA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Pu_yOeeaHAy12Oq1
The whole "holding a bird" thing never clicked with me! I'm a visual and data driven learner, and this is the absolute most perfect approach to learning golf grip pressure for me, Thank You!!!
That's some useful information right there! Proper grip pressure is one of life's mysteries. Thank you!
This is brilliant, never seen a breakdown on grip pressure like this before, that data is incredible
Great video Matt. Interesting stuff, we were all told the opposite growing up beginning the game. Great collab with Gabe by the way on his channel ⛳⛳
Very insightful. Thanks for covering these specific topics rather than all those generic once the other channels constantly cover.
Nice to here this Matt. I'm only new to Golf, 2yrs in @ 63. I've had 3 lessons with 2 different pro's, the last 2 lessons I was hammered about my grep pressure & told to hold lightly "you don't want the bird to escape your grip, but you don't want to hurt it" So they are still teaching this and since listening to this, it has caused me a few prob's. So now I grep it firm & have a better result.
Light grip for light swing . . .
Thanks for this video.
I recently started working on this just this year. I feel so much better with more pressure.
Funny how the "baby bird" tip has stuck around for so long when it is very wrong.
Also funny how strengthen vs weaken grip terms gets in the way wheen trying to search for this tip.
Shawn Clements was just on this topic a few days ago...good to see data getting out on this. Well done Matt.
Great video! Loved the collab with Gabe. My 2 favourite TH-camrs.
So much confusing information out there, and especially as I was growing into golf 30 years ago. This was clarifying…thanks!
Really looking forward to see the rest
Brilliant, thank you. A trainer is nos on the way, but the bit about grippig the lead hand and pulling through has worked wonders on my chipping already.
great video and topic, need more of this
Awesome video. Thanks for that new info.
Good info. To make the charts more informative I’d add a vertical line called POI, meaning Point of Impact.
I also found an overlap grip really helps lessen the trail hand overtaking my swing. Good video👍
Very interesting. I learned that Grip strength is important for controlling the club face - especially from the rough. I found that jumbo/oversized grips aid in grip pressure/controlling the club face and most golfers would benefit from oversized golf grips to add club face control may work to help with insufficient grip strength.
My coach talks about how the "hold it softly" is taught mostly to beginners just as a "trick" just to make them relax the arms, and that the expectation isn't actually for them to lower their grip pressure.
Thanks Matt, very over looked and not taught very much. Great Video, looking forward to the Sensor Grip.
Wow why is no one talking about this? Game changer! Just took a few cuts practicing optimal pressure and I’m already getting better striking and distance. Send this to all your high handicap friends. I used to struggle with grip always changing and tweaking and never even thought that pressure might be the issue and it clearly is
Superb. Long overdue data.
Great video! great explanation
This is great info!
This is why i love Matt.. he's a technical person like me.. oh and do that 100 times ...
This is honestly one of the most eye-opening things I've ever realized about a golf swing. I could feel a difference after five or six wings.
I have a real distaste for golf professionals, learned so much shit that’s wrong over the years. I used to swing like furyk, great strike, after years of some “expert” trying to make me swing like tiger I’m so much worse. Oh, and grip pressure was one of those things
Come on up to East Tn, let me get in on that series I sure got a bad swing!!!!
Fascinating data! Always wondered what actually happened during the swing.
I have never seen a focus on both hand grip pressure. Certainly interesting as I have always heard a light grip all thru the swing. I’ll give it a try.
I feel like for the average golf this is very important. Most average golfs do a death grip which is loss of distant.
interesting...I like this information
Another question I have is the grip strength of the fingers only. I think the core of the not too tight tip is to not be so tight its in the wrist and arms only the fingers.
So I am wondering about the numbers for pro strength vs normal and if they are using whole arms and wrists when they measure their strength.
Edit: I literally bought that same grip trainer you showed just last week.
I have been just starting on this grip tighter journey. So i would enjoy more videos on this subject.
I think grip pressure can lead to too much tension in the arms, thus zapping speed. Finding that sweet spot is key. And certainly differs depending on the club.
Hmm, interesting , will try it and see how it goes. Thanks
Interesting post, however I am not sure what comes first: the wrong swing plane or the wrong pressure; grip pressure might be the result rather than the cause of a bad swing , i.e these people try to compensate for an incorrect swing plane resulting in the respective grip pressure, just a thought not sure at all…
When you do then new series come to Texas. I need a lesson and my swing is horrible 😢
Great video
Great man 👍
Going to try this.... tend to hook and now know one possible reason why. Too much right hand! As always, good reasonable advice.
as a baseball player, this explains a lot why I am so bad... The high hcp chart is literally how I grip coming from a bat.
Please someone copy in Colin Montgomerie. When asked what his 1 tip is for the amateur golfer, he always says you're gripping it too hard. Well actually it looks like we're not gripping it hard enough, at least with the lead hand.
I watched SensorEdge founder Igor on Paul Wilson's channel last year talk about the grip sensor they developed. Most enlightening, he said data shows everyone should be playing jumbo grips, including women.
Golf grip is highly underestimated. One little adjustment can literally change your entire game.
This is so good
The very common Dupuytren’s. Contracture destroys any attempt at regulating grip pressure, i do my best and do realise you need to grip reasonably tight to hit full shots, but Dupytrens renders any improvement temporary.
I would love to see how this affects short game shots. I am pretty solid in my short game and spinners high shots, low shots would be curious to show people how much more they need to practice chipping vs a driver or iron. Everyone says I use my hands a lot is that good or bad?
I'm a professional drummer. I'm use to holding my sticks, "like a bird," I guess. Very loose, as loose as I can without dropping it. When I golf, if I don't hit it flush, the club will spin in my hand. That's because I'm using the least amount of pressure like I'm accustomed. I need to start squeezing harder. A really good grip trainer is a bucket full of white rice. Lots of videos about that.
So would Furyk's double overlap help take the right hand out of the swing and help the left hand squeeze harder thereby accomplishing something similar?
One measurment is worth a thousand expert opinions
Where’s the Mr SG logo on the wall?!
This likely explains why I can hit straighter and more consistently (shorter though) when just swinging with my left hand (right hand off the club entirely).
The key to gripping it tight is just using the lower part of the arm to grip…too many people use their entire arm to grip the club and that kills their grip…But, just thinking of the physics, you have to grip it firmly…a driver being propelled at 100mph equals somewhere in the neighborhood of trying to hold onto an 80 pound weight as it’s being pulled away from your body…
Is this just for full swing or short game as well?
I was never taught anything about golf grip pressure
Only just now noticed the switch from Trackman to Foresight…that a GC3 or a Quad?
Moe Norman's grip pressure was focused on his left hand, with his right hand remaining light. Norman believed that squeezing blood with his left hand gave him stability with the club face.
Have not watched the video yet. My guess would be that I hold an iron or hybrid with my lead hand at about 30 percent of my strength and 20 percent with the trail hand. With woods a bit less than that. So pros would probably use less of their strength.
Please can you inform me. On your videos from the golf show in Florida, you have a golf glove with 2 velcros strapps on. Please i want the company name.
I tried a light grip in my lead hand with my driver, once. After swinging, it very nearly went further than the ball!
Interesting, I had lots of pain in my fore arms the day after I played and I tought it was because I grip too hard...
Dont know what to do anymore.
That made sense, you know this is TH-cam? I won't tell
I bet it matters if they swing with a lead-side pattern or a trail-side pattern.
Just use bigger grips!!! Bigger surface less press needed for the same force. Force = m.a a= V2 / r ....
Idk where to put my trail thumb… I usually put it in line with my lead thumb, but someone told me to put it over the grip… feels super weird that way. Please help
I never understood the baby bird grip pressure thing. If I held it that light the club is flying out of my hands!
I was gonna guess 28%
Guess I'm screwed. I had a herniated disc in my neck that left my left arm and hand very weak.
37 second so this dropped lol
Rather than a graph showing relative grip pressure, how about an absolute chart? Do pro's have super strong grips? Popeye arms? We amateurs want to know...
I wonder where the "hold it like a little bird" advice originated? Almost every golfer has heard that advice and I wonder who or where this came from?
I think it may have been Sam Snead who said this. He had some memorable sayings, such as the ball landing ‘like a butterfly with sore feet.’
@@howardphillips8513 Yes. After he played Jack Nicklaus at Pebble Beach in Shell's Wonderful World of Golf he gave 30 seconds of instruction where he said you should grip it like holding a bird. He was a great player but IMO that is bad advice.
What if you lead with the trail hand
Go to 6 min. It means you’re a high handicapper
The problem with golf is the “pros” “trainers” and “pga store pros” want to tell you something different… what is the right way has 20+ variations of the right thing to do. For a game that’s highly praised for needing intellect to play… people don’t know what they’re talking about. My cousin is a pga member he’s done training lessons but when I ask a question it’s an immediate uhhmmm try this. Not even the pros can answer simple questions. Stupid pga shop tellin me I’m trying to kill the ball with my tight grip… lol I never seen a baseball player hit a 100mph fastball using little grip… where’s the ball going? No where. Tighter grip solid swing step into it is how you make solid contact in baseball. Golf isn’t far off except the ball is stationary. It’s stupid the amount of wrong advice is given in golf lol how did any of ya make it as far as ya are… makes no sense lol
You’re about 20 years behind the curve on this one!!! Titleist Performance Institute has been teaching this for no less than the 10 yrs I’ve been certified. Avg grip strength of a pro golfer back then was double that of the avg golfer so while THEY might have a “lightish” grip it’s literally double that of the weekend warrior’s!!! And this has long been my issue with the vast majority of PGA teaching professionals is that they don’t know what they don’t know and what’s worse is most don’t want to know as it is a massive blow to their egos!
If this has been out for 20 years it sure has been a well kept secret. I've watched innumerable videos, read books and instruction tips over the years and have never seen any data like this. I distinctly remember Sam Snead telling us to grip it like holding a bird; sounded good but when trying it I never achieved anything resembling consistency. I remember a pro telling me to grip tightly with the left hand to prevent over-hooking. This was before the word video was invented. And it worked. The very interesting thing to me was the extremely light pressure of the right hand. Did not expect that. Any comments regarding that? All in all I thought this was a ureka presentation.
@ did you ever speak to any Titleist Performance Institute Certified Professional? Of any discipline, Strength/Fitness, Medical, or Golf? Do you workout with your golf game in mind? If yes, did you stick with the program through the first mesocycle? (4-12 weeks) Have you ever heard of Dr Greg Rose? The co founder of TPI. Mark Blackburn? Claude Harmon 3 both on the TPI advisory board? John Rahm, Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson, Justin Thomas? All have TPI certified fitness coaches? If not seems to me that you’re the one who’s been living under a rock…
Take a chill pill. I’m not saying it’s not real or that it’s bad advice. Actually since it’s data based I find it quite convincing. What I was referring to is that it doesn’t seem to be widely disseminated information. Not everyone is a TPI certified instructor. Perhaps you should inspect your grip on your attitude.
I tend to slice the ball especially with longer clubs and I have the sensor edge grip I’m more on par with a pro than all the other stats you posted
Moral of the story focus on fundamentals have a medium pressure grip and forget about all the other shit