Golf lessons: Grip

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Yasin Ali from the David Leadbetter Academy at JA The Resort Golf Course talks you through the key elements to get you around the course in one piece.  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  UAE, golf, learn to play, beginner’s guide, tutorial, coaching, golf clubs, golf tips, golf grip  #UAEnews #golf #sports

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00:00When learning to play the game of golf, we have to focus on the fundamentals and in my

00:11opinion the most important fundamental is the grip, how we hold the club.

00:16So I'm a right-handed golfer, so when I take my grip, my left hand goes to the top of the

00:22club.

00:23From there, my right hand would be below my left.

00:27Now how we hold the club is important.

00:30Most people when they go and they just take up the game without lessons, you will find

00:33that they go into like a baseball grip or a cricket grip.

00:37What this does is, yes you'll have a hold of the club, but more often than not, one

00:41hand is more dominant than the other.

00:44The key to perfecting the grip and getting your hands in the correct position is both

00:49hands work in unison.

00:50So a good grip would look something like this.

00:53My left hand, club's going to sit diagonally down, so if this is my palm and I've got that

01:00line there, my grip is going to sit diagonally down until it goes into that last line of

01:05my forefinger, like that.

01:07As I wrap my fingers around and close my palm, you will see that my left hand is in this

01:14position.

01:15Key points to note, this line on my left hand between thumb and forefinger, if it was to

01:21go all the way up, it would point towards my right shoulder.

01:25From my perspective looking down, I can see two knuckles, two and a half knuckles on my

01:31left hand and I have a bit of angle at the base of my left wrist.

01:35That is called the dish angle.

01:37A final thing to note, my thumb, there is no gap between thumb and forefinger and the

01:42end of my thumb lines up almost perfectly with the middle knuckle on my left forefinger.

01:48Now with the right hand, we want the grip to sit almost exclusively in the fingers.

01:53So I'm going to take this pinky, I'm going to sit it on top of that gap there between

01:58forefinger and middle finger and I'll just get the grip more towards the fingers there.

02:04My index finger is going to stretch down a little bit more.

02:08Once I'm in this position, I just want to wrap my hand around.

02:12A key thing you will note is the left thumb is going to fit nicely in the gap of the right

02:17palm and the fleshy part of your right thumb is going to cover the left thumb like that.

02:23And a final thing to note, the line there between thumb and forefinger on my right hand

02:28goes towards my chin.

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