How Would You Rate Your Grip? Grip Revisited / Kory Budinger / Player Lesson

Are you struggling with your grip? Here's a great video on grip to get you on the path to better swinging:
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You'll notice in this video with Kory, he starts hitting hooks after fixing his grip. That's ok. Let your body adjust to the new grip and get your hands and wrists working correctly.
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[@MalaskaGolf]

Two Questions: How would you rate your grip on a scale of 1 to 10? What are you doing to become a 10?

[@yanksrule311]

@@richyclubsport5155 Good for you! 👍

[@rickynicol7205]

Once engraining with practice and then maintaining my natural ‘ joint alignment hang at address, I’ve further explored with low point when using the lever system . So much had been coached regarding a flat lead wrist at impact! This so much relies on timing! 👎 Love the work Mike , I’m currently a ‘6-7’ , continually learning as a coach

[@Mbsmoothe]

3-4, strong grip always feels like I’m coming across my chest and makes me tense. Also it seems harder to re-hinge my wrist in the follow through. There is probably something I am missing

[@CarnivoreDMD]

Thank you Thank You Thank You! You cannot make too many GRIP videos. It is EVERYTHING to the foundation of a great swing.

[@antap]

Increase the time between shots. Faster you hit ball after ball, the worse you hit. It ain't aerobics.

[@NonnyStrikes]

It takes so much to be a teacher. Mostly passion. Which Mike has immensely. I'm not sure if you try this much Mike, but it has worked wonders for groups I teach. Yes, haha, I said groups, just imagine. I take ball, sticks, out of the equation for the first week. Most people drop out within a day or two and say "don't go to him, it's a waste of money". THEN, the kicker. The ones with open minds and adaptive perspective, discover the land of milk and honey. Key thing with no ball, no stick....I let them swing the club freely and develop a grip that allows them to hold onto the club and swing "FREELY". Sometimes, going as basic as possible, can restart the brain. It was the one key decision I made a year or two ago when I was hitting in my basement during the winter. I got so aggravated that I just started swinging the club around, yelling "why the *BLEEP* can't I stay consistent day to day?!" That's when the scientist kicked in and I started taking controlled breaths, and just said *F**k it* and started swinging it like I do in hockey. Lightbulb moment for sure. I kept doing that, without any ball, just imagination of a target I wanted to hit with the club I had in hand. Won my division via tourney that following summer (last summer).

[@brian2973]

Haha wow. What perfect timing! I've been experimenting with my grip recently and I was just sitting on my couch thinking: "I wonder what Mike Malaska has to say about grips" and bam, this video has been live for all of 16 hours. Perfect.

[@Golf-wu4ee]

Mike on the grip videos can you have the camera be straight on? It’s so difficult to see the actual grip changes with the camera directly from behind. Thank you!

[@russkent321]

I think you have to pay for this view.

[@scottwesterman221]

@Malaska Golf I’m getting back into golf after a 25 year lay off, my problem is I am hitting all my irons very very high and not very far ? Any advice or tips please. Scott

[@RichardkingkennyKenny-fx9up]

Hi Mike, what do you charge per lesson, I am in South Africa.

[@krismoody6948]

As a complete newbie ready to work hard to learn a golf swing, I'm hoping someone here can help me sort through the options as I'm TOTALLY confused as to the best option. When I watch videos from a traditional swing perspective that seems like a great option. Then I cruise over to a channel like the Saguto Golf channel and "stack and tilt" is being presented as the simplest / most consistent swing to learn and the reasoning seems to make sense. Then I check out this Malaska Golf channel and learning his style seems like the best way forward. Strangest of all, somehow I find myself on the "Juju swing" channel and am told that style is by far the freest and easiest way to swing to hit the ball farther than any other method with the least tension (and the student examples seem impressive even if the backswing looks bizarre). I'm sure there are parts of the swing that are consistent across all these options, but at this point I have no idea how to make a choice between these systems for something to invest in for a membership and get started. I'd welcome any advice (or personal experience) anyone could offer!

[@paulbrandcom]

A question I have is, how does a strong grip relate to a cupped wrist at the top. Or to be more clear, a flat wrist to the top supposedly is desirable. With a strong grip I notice it is close to impossible for me to have a flat wrist at the top. Are these 2 contradicting concepts and should I not worry about flat wrist at the top? Thanks for clarifying!

[@chrish6412]

Do you have a drill for swinging the club so that the arm does not rotate? I set up on my irons with the "hand extended grip" (the hand's position with tension on it as if a someone was pulling on the club), square the face, but still tend to rotate the hand/clubface during the swing that it still goes left. BTW, I use a very strong (first knuckle on top of the center line or even towards the back) and can hit a very nice draw (as long as my swing path is good).

[@otomotom1879]

This guy does not do the push back and push back with the hips. His hips are getting close to the ball. No wonder he is not hitting the ball at all. He should first look for Malaska videos abt that and then hit the balls.

[@luisjuarez1200]

Grip current 2. Trying to go extra strong now last few weeks. Trying to make impact alignments with new grip work, without severely hooking it.

[@davidkuperschmid5274]

Why not use a baseball grip to exert maximum leverage?

[@joes189]

Hey Mike, I’m confused about the steering wheel release in combination with your explanation about how the wrists work during the swing. I’m not sure how you can use wrists like you would throw a ball (no twisting) but still rotate forearms to stand the club up. They seem incompatible but I’m sure I’m missing something.

[@mikepeterson8375]

I think the difference is: steering wheel =“external rotation” of the trail shoulder joint (good) vs. “supination/pronation” of forearm/wrist/hand (bad). Your arms should rotate in the shoulder joint-but from the elbow to finger tips there should be no twisting/turning.

[@davidhenryandthemysterons3220]

Starts at 3 goes up to 7. Through the swing?

[@wantonjr1]

Good he’s shanking it

[@markjoyce6772]

When you do a grip video, can you go into right hand a bit more of how it’s supposed to be, like is the hand slightly rotated up ,so the v points to the right shoulder.

[@brettschultz2757]

Holy crap this feels way easier I’ve been crushing the ball but pulling it because the club face is closed to ball at address. Am I supposed to open the face with my forearms at address to make it look open and use the bounce at address like you said before or turn the grip open within my hands at address? Thanks so much this is awesome stuff!

[@Jam9151]

The club face should be slightly open to your eyes at address as it sits behind the ball - it’s not actually “open” just looks that way. If it’s shut at address and it will close down more at impact. If you imagine 6 inches before the ball it looks open 6 inches after it looks closed however it’s actually square to the path depending on your grip and whether you’re rolling your hands over etc.

[@Jam9151]

If you lie a pen or pencil down and point it forward to something if you move it slightly to the right it looks open and slightly to the left it looks closed because it’s moving on an arc but the pen or pencil itself isn’t actually twisting or rolling so it is square relative to the path it’s travelling on. So as you set up behind the ball (behind impact) it should look ever so slightly like it’s open of course once you’ve made contact it’ll be square as it’s an inch forward

[@Jam9151]

But don’t roll the face open with your grip or forearms grip it normal place down on top of ball should be square move it back behind the ball for address and it should look every slightly “open”

[@brettschultz2757]

@@Jam9151 thank you James I’ll try this at the range today

[@Badfinger4]

3:48 "That's just basically neutral." No. It's extremely strong. Let's not be disingenuous here. There isn't a pro on tour that grips the club with the left hand turned that far to the right. How would you not hit everything straight left with a grip like that?

[@stevenliston6081]

Check out Matt Fitzpatrick,US Open champion

[@richyclubsport5155]

Langer Johnson loads have extremely strong grip

[@garrysutcliffe6254]

Why ball off the tee, cheers

[@yanksrule311]

Mike does that almost always. Makes it easier to concentrate on the change you’re trying to make (in this case grip) without the added difficulty of catching the ball cleanly while it’s on the ground.

[@Seer645]

This seems to conflict with 2 earlier videos