A Look at Components of the Golf Swing: The Grip

I have been thinking about this for awhile and I finally decided to go ahead and do it. As I've posted many times on this blog, there is no one way to swing the club and hit the ball effectively. The history of the game has seen great golfers with different swing planes, address positions, grips, etc. The big key is that the great golfers each had a flat lead wrist at impact along with a great pivot action in order to create lag and allow the lead wrist to be flat at impact.

I'm sure I'll come across golfers who will tell me differently. I usually do. Some will tell me that the key is the address position, which I say BULL HONKEY. Some will say the grip, which I'll reply RUBBISH. Some will say swing plane which will make me CHUCKLE.

So to counter that, I'll go over a bunch of the components of the golf swing and show pics of how some of the great golfers approached each component. First up, the grip:

MOE NORMAN

ERNIE ELS



PAUL AZINGER

BEN HOGAN



JIM FURYK


TIGER WOODS




BOB ESTES







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