The Right Grip For Speed Producers / Hold The Club In Your Fingers, Not Your Palm

Mike Malaska helps John understand the importance of having the correct grip.
The correct grip will help create the best speed producers with your wrists. Your left wrist serves as a chopping action, while your right wrist is more like a throwing or slapping motion. If you don't have the correct grip, it will be hard to achieve this.
Mike stresses to John that the club has to be in his fingers. For John to completely understand this concept, Mike brings out his famous sharpie. John gets a quick anatomy lesson on the difference between your fingers and your palms. Mike draws lines on John's hands to illustrate the separation. This fun example hammers home the message.
Mike then places the club along the black line with the club in his fingers. The more the club is in your fingertips, the more you will be able to use your wrists and apply the lever system.
Mike works with John to get the correct grip and shows him that because he has the club in his fingers, it is easier for John's wrist to lever on the backswing.
Mike emphasizes that if you don't have the lever system working with your wrists, it doesn't matter what you are doing with your body; it will not create more speed.
Mike shows John the best way to grip a golf club is to hold the clubhead above his hands which is the best way to align his fingers into the club. Gripping the club already in the setup position tends to move the club up into your palm. Once you have the grip in your fingers, you can drop the club down to set up for the swing.
John then takes some practice swings with his new grip and focuses on levering his wrists on the backswing.
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[@michaelhyslop7050]

It’s amazing how holding the club correctly improves the strike! Grips so often over looked in the teaching process. Thanks

[@leonberkowitz8769]

If you don’t have a good grip you can’t play decent golf.

[@thomasfraser9072]

Once you establish the perfect grip: aim and golf posture then simply swing your club with the little finger of your trail hand . It is truly that simple. Right Mike? Cheers 👍😃⛳️🥂❤️

[@MVPhurricane]

best grip explanation on the internet. if every part of what he is saying doesn't make intuitive sense, just grab a club and try to bring it around while manipulating the grip. i love how much mike grounds these explanations based on the body producing the proper movement, rather than giving you the "proper movement" and leaving it up to you to figure out how to get there (though the latter can be useful as well, in context).

[@garybrohard3144]

I have learned so much from your teaching methods.You put it in more understandable language and visuals. Thank you sir.

[@leonberkowitz8769]

Best grip video by far. Jack Nicklaus once said if you have a good grip you can learn to play golf . Always thought hands matched. But you have opened my eyes about the two diff roles each hand does in the golf swing. Great video Mike many thanks 👍

[@colinmacleod7144]

Best explanation on the grip and especially how the lead had wrist works. So simple to understand and put into practice. Thank you Mike for making golf fun again

[@tharris452]

Man I want somebody to teach me like this. Took the club and literally put it in his hands the correct way

[@frankschumacher6427]

Always great to listen to your swing advices! This fix was easy, thank you, sir!

[@richardkehoe2294]

As always Mike - very helpful and insightful. Many Thanks

[@7676ezra]

My instructor showed me with the range bucket. Hold the bucket in the fingers and that was all I needed to feel to get that part correct. Then turn the left and right elbows in just a little to kind of feel opposing force but without really tightening the grip. I call it "lock it in". So I grip it in the fingers, then lock in with elbows. No tension in the hands but arms pushing towards each other from the elbows, like one of those bands they have to keep arms together. You guys have a lot of similar methods so it's been really helpful to see a lot of things that are the same as I've working on with just a slight twist that might help me better understand or even a drill or 2 that is along the same lines.

[@lawrencecirillo3233]

Mike worked with Jack for a long time at his instructional schools so the similarity is no surprise. 😊

[@rayweeks1056]

Thank you for making golf fun again..!

[@barryread3672]

Amazing the difference the grip makes on everything from release to strike.

[@stanley9794]

Great visual of how each hand should work in a proper grip

[@allyal-mufti9086]

Another Mike W

[@michelperras2791]

Well done and explain

[@thomasfraser9072]

Once the grip, posture and aim is established. Simply swing the club back and forth with the little finger of your trail hand. No other swing thought required. Right Mike? Cheers 👍😃⛳️🥂❤️

[@whitefang9309]

Hi really enjoy how you teach you have helped my game keep up the good work . DON

[@divac7777]

Jack put the club in his left palm

[@beimsteiner]

I've had recurrent episodes of shanks, clubhead control falling apart, usually when something goes off in the timing as I get a bit tired. Not small issues, but the wheels falling completely off and then staying off for a couple days. In the middle of this, I happened to watch a closed left hand video and coupled with not rolling the arms it immediately works. I feel like I can finally actually release the club and not worry about killing someone on an adjacent tee. Update played my first round using this technique and was launching driver dead straight all round, good iron shots, multiple birdies (which I never do LoL)

[@MantasticMan]

Nice!

[@maxwired2235]

I'm on your member site, but please zoom in and also show from face on. Also please show how the leading edge should line up with the shaft as you grip the club this way.

[@mr.walker8700]

Makes sense to me!

[@richardnorth6964]

On another of your videos, you wanted to push down (towards the ground) on the grip (your mantra of "grip down club head up") in the start of the backswing. Isn't that at odds with your teaching here of hinging the left wrist back at the start of the backswing. Or do you combine both moves. Great videos. Thank you,

[@dougtyler5668]

I think you really would have smacked him😂

[@shaunmiller4294]

If you have not been following Mike you are missing out.

[@jerrygibbs8804]

Helpful but I wish I could see his hands

[@jeffp2001]

My instructor says I have to get it more in palm cause my face is to closed at waste high and at top, he say I hang back and flip the club at bottom due to closed face. I think I tend to come over to which cause me to hang back and flip but since I paid for lesson I’m trying to be little more in palm which is causing me pain in left thumb.. do you think the closed club face causes me to hang back and flip or coming a little over top? Its only a little over top. What do you think. Thx

[@davidcase7655]

I wish he would have zoomed in on the hands when explaining the grip.

[@jmm1817]

Nice tip but I can't see where the right hand goes it's totally hidden

[@auzzyboy276]

Once in the fingers does the club sit up against the pad at the base of your hand like hogan said? Or should it feel purely in the fingers as thou you have open palms?

[@johnculletto6772]

I have watched dozens and dozens of your videos and not once have you ever showed the viewers how you placed the hands on the club so how can people watching this know where to place them correctly

[@javierr3515]

Hold it like an umbrella. Thats the secret.

[@Carsonsimon]

That end comment... "That was easy" golf doesn't have to be that hard to play to a decent enough level...People make it hard by trying to do weird things. Hit somthing with a stick and you will do it perfect without thinking. Put a clubface on the end and a little ball and people start to try and guide and manufacture all sorts of wonky...😄

[@bigglesthwaite]

Hi Mike, I recently came across the swing feel in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHqug5Z5mrR2pKM It appears to be the opposite of the downswing you teach. What are your thoughts on this please. Which downswing should I use? Mark

[@ikidd06]

This link may be a virus! It slowed my phone down tremendously after clicking on it

[@RobertJohanssonRBImGuy]

bad grip with teacher teaching you to struggle My stuff makes golf gurus out of a job as you wont need lessons once learned.

[@biden-putin-stalin]

Ben Hogan in his book '5 fundamentals' says that the golf grip dictates which muscles will fire, thus it dictates the golf swing. He drew pictures of how the left wrist worked through the hitting area, a supination of the left arm and wrist. My interpretation of what Mike is teaching is not what Hogan practiced and taught. He seems to be teaching that the left wrist ulnar-flexes through the ball and that somehow adds power. In my opinion if we don't supinate the left wrist, by using the upper arm bones and not just the forearms, then we cannot use the left arm in a connected fashion, elbow down and on body where the left arm is part of throwing a basketball at a bullseye on a wall. In fact, if we do what Mike says we can't possibly keep the left arm on the body and we must disconnect and pull the handle toward the target just to keep it in play. Too strong of a left hand grip produces blocked shots, or duck hooks, and that is not extra power. Too strong of a left hand grip produces back, blocked, and flipped golf swings. If we try to supinate with too strong of a grip, the clubface is slammed shut at impact, so we get duck hooks. However, and having said what I just did, if we extend the left wrist while making a basketball throw at a wall through impact we may prevent duck hooks as that opens the face. So to use what Mike teaches , strong grip with back of left hand to looking skyward, we must remember to extend the left wrist through impact to have any chance of keeping the ball in play. Is Hogan's bulging left wrist toward the target better or easier, or more consistent? Try both and you be the judge. For me, I can't do what Mike calls for and I think that Hogan's bulging left wrist at the target works much better for the masses. If we look at TV PGA players I think that we will see a bulging left wrist at the target much more often.

[@John-wg1jh]

Who cares what you think? 😊