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Video Tutorial: The Golf Grip

Written by  Andrew Wild on Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Throughout the ages in golf coaching and in golf practice, the way we hold the golf club - the golf grip - has always been considered one of the most important factors.




Of course, it's our only connection with the club, and depending on how we do it it will influence the shot in some way.

I'm not going to teach you how to hold the golf club today - I'll leave that to your PGA professional. And of course Power Tee are an official supplier to the PGA, so that gives you an idea of how highly respected the product is.

The way you can use it to make sure you get the golf grip right is that once you are happy you've got your hands on the club the way you've been taught to do it, you can set up to the golf ball and play your shot. I would recommend that when you're learning the golf grip, start off with fairly gentle shots. 

If you're happy that the shot is as you want, and you're happy that your hands feel good and they've stayed in position, the Power Tee is doing the job of getting the next ball ready. You don't have to take your hands off - now you've got the added advantage of being able to go ahead and take the next shot without changing your hand position. That means that now you're learning to hit good shots with the correct grip in succession. 

What I would say is don't do more than three at a time, because there's every chance your hands will have slipped - at that point reset your hands on the golf club the way you've been taught, and then go ahead and hit another three.
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Andrew Wild

Andrew Wild

Andrew manages all aspects of Sandford Springs including Food and Beverage, Golf, Finance and Memberships.

Andrew originally met the Chairman, Paul Gibbons, when he was an assistant Golf Pro at Reading Golf Club 28 years ago.

Interestingly, 15 years later Andrew was giving Paul a series of lessons, during which he mentioned there was a club in Hampshire which was up for sale. After going to visit the club, Mr Gibbons ended up buying Sandford Springs. 

Andrew joined the company a couple of years later and six years on, he became the General Manager at the club they had first discussed all that time ago.

Andrew has a deep passion for the game of golf, which aids his enthusiasm in all his endeavours at Sandford Springs. Aside from playing, he enjoys simply being around the golf club and takes a great interest in looking after his members.

He believes that the atmosphere at Sandford Springs is second to none and finds it such a pleasure to be involved with the club that, in his own words – "Sometimes it doesn't even feel like work".

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