The Golf Grip | Achieving a Single Figure Handicap | Padraig Harrington

okay welcome back to Patty's golf tips I said recently that uh I felt this site YouTube was all about trying to get every single golfer in the world the single figure handicap so that's my aspiration I want to help you all out but I realized after I said it and I went back to Mike Patty's golf tips that all the tips I've kind of been given are oneof in certain areas of the game and leaving it for you guys to put together so I've decided now in my next set of Patty golf tips to do

a plan for you a set progression of what would do if you came to me as a beginner or if you came to me as a golfer who's playing for a number of years but is stuck say at a 18 handicap and wants to get down to n stuck at a 15 handicap what I would say to you this is especially relevant for somebody who wants to reset whether you're starting and you're want to go fresh or whether you playing for a while and you want to reset things and get back to a position that

you can play off single figure handicap the winner of the gold medal and the champion golfer of the year is Podrick Harrington [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay this next one is the grip this is non-negotiable if you don't do this next bit turn off Patty's golf tips okay it's not for you you want something that's I don't know what you want you want something that's may be easy you want something that you're you You' got to get a good grip your grip connects you to Club face so the only thing that connects you to Club face

your grip and also because of that club face and grip it will determine how your body moves completely so your grip is the most important thing in the cul you've got to have a good grip now I was hoping I didn't mention it at the start because the likelihood when you're swinging back and forth you're going to move your wrist right and the likelihood if you move your wrists right you probably hold the club properly now look if you can see my grip is mainly in my fingers okay so it's right across the pad there

look how much it's not up here cuz if it was up here look how much my elbow would have to do whereas it's here low down in this left hand I can hold it with one finger like so low down here I can use my wrists to do it back and forth okay see how much I've got that club pointed up in the air at this position like so back and again up in the air that's my wrist is allow doing that and we're going to get you to practice back and forth with hardly any

arm movement thus with left hand wrist bit of strength involved in that right hand same thing you pick the club up this is a deadlift that's how you pick the club up if anybody is lifted it's fingers fingers it's the same way you pick up a a kettle bell a suitcase a door handle your fingers grab it and that's where it's strong okay same with the left hand fingers but in Gulf it's a deadlift so that one on top that one on bottom okay we never ever want to grip the club with it on the

ground like so for reason cuz if the club is on the ground look how high my wrists have got they got very high and I'm likely to put that up there if it gets too high in the palm the elbow is going to be working look if you see the difference see how much I can move that club there in the back swing whereas if I put it in my fingers look at the look at the height of that club and the distance where is the other way no use okay we want that H the

ability to have that hinge in the back swing right hand fingers okay now if you got it on right you'll be able to do figures of eights all day and we want you to do that we want you to stand here and get back and forth with just about wrists and look your hands don't come off the club when you do that I'm keeping my hands in the same place if I had a bad grip and try and do that after a couple of times it's going to come out of my hands okay so up

loads of wrist action flip back and forth flip as hard as you can okay this is exaggeration but we need this okay A little bit of movement okay you can buy molded grips that go onto clubs you can buy a skills.com for $10 that Clips onto your hand the grip thing Clips onto your grip that would show you where these go fingers so I said you don't want to grip it from here what you actually want to do put your elbows into your side you'll see this in the old Hogan video put your elbows into

the side and grip at the club in front of you you can see I've created a bit of an angle here when I do that whereas if I grip on the ground I have the opposite angle okay so we actually want a little bit of that angle there we don't want that at a dress we don't want our hands getting up high okay at a dress we want them so there a but again it's like picking up a suitcase anything we do strong we use our fingers deadlift this way hang everything is fingers first get

it all in the fingers once you got your both sets of fingers in there this wraps the thumb wraps over slightly to the left fingers here and this thumb go go slightly to the right slightly you'll know when it's right this V will be right your chin and this V will be again you used to say right shoulder but we'll say inside right shoulder okay but you'll know you can move the club aggressively back and forth and it's not coming out there's a little bit of waggle in my grip there but it's not coming out

of my hands I can reset it and it's in the same place it's still in the same place okay okay so it's very important you get a strong grip if you have a bad grip and you're going to have to change so you have to change your grip and I said this is non-negotiable don't even bother if you're not going to change your grip don't worry about it just enjoy what you're doing with golf if you want to get better grip is the number one thing you got to change you can do it if it's

problem for you do it in front of the television so get a club sit there as you're watching waggle okay pick the club up and waggle okay all the time okay if it's really alien here you might need to actually change the physical grip on the club to give you a different feel I've heard that is a decent tip where they actually is whatever grip you have on get a different type of grip so that it's all new in the first place and you're not used to your old grip but you got to get it

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