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Grip pressure
Weekly advice from area pros to improve your game
By TOM SHEA
Published January 11, 2007
The pressure with which you grip the club dictates everything in your swing.
If you cannot maintain a consistent grip pressure of 3 to 5 on a scale of 1-10 10 being the tightest, then the golf swing becomes a series of compensations.
Both hands should keep the same pressure without one being tighter than the other. As you take a practice swing, notice that the pressure will stay light and loose.
When you swing, become aware of exactly when the pressure gets tighter. This will help you control your grip pressure and swing the club more consistently.
Favorite area course other than home: Summertree Golf Club. It is only a nine-hole golf course, but we use it for our summer camps, and I love to take my kids there to play.
Favorite course nationally: Beacon Hill Country Club, Atlantic Highlands, N.J. This is where I started to like the game as a caddie and learned to play the game.
Best golfing advice ever received: Feel it cut, watch it draw. It took me a long time to figure it out, but I base my whole teaching philosophy on this advice.
Tom Shea is a PGA teaching professional at Fox Hollow Golf Club in Trinity. E-mail him at shea4653@aol.com
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