A Stronger Golf Grip

An all-important need-Some exercises

  Strong hands, wrists and fingers are essential to the retention of a correct and constant golf grip in every detail and the development of the feeling that it is fitted snugly to the golf club shaft.

  You may well ask why this emphasis on strength in view of my warning against a vice-like grip of the club.  After all, a golf club only weighs between twelve and fifteen-and-a-half ounces.

  Here is the answer.  For all its comparatively light weight the club head moves in a wide arc and works up to a high speed at impact.  To keep complete control of it without restriction of the life and power of the swing it is necessary to develop a measure of strength which permits firm mastery without the fullest physical effort to apply it.

  The novice, learning to drive a car, starts by clenching the steering wheel.  Smooth steering thereby is impossible and if he were to drive any distance the arms would soon be aching.  Similarly with the novice boxer.  Clenching his fists inside his gloves and holding his arms rigid he cannot throw a proper punch or react quickly enough to parry one from his opponent.  His arms rapidly tire and feel as heavy as lead.
It is this same muscular tension against which I am warning you as a golfer. 

  A fierce grip on the shaft locks the wrists and deprives the movement of LIFE, but if the hands are not conditioned to their task the natural instinct is to grip fiercely.

  You will read very little in this website about the part which the wrists play.  You should not be conscious of, or worried about, your wrists at any stage of the swing.  Any deliberate attempt to apply them destroys immediately the smooth progress of the club head which should be swung smoothly through its arc by the arms.  The hands, correctly gripping the club in the manner which I have described in such detail, will permit the arms to do this.

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