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Full Swing · Technique

Connect the trail palm to the lead thumb

Place the curve under the trail palm pad against the lead-thumb knuckle, then curl the fingers into the normal grip. The coach uses roughly equal finger spacing as a checkpoint and says this connection places the club into the trail thumb-index pinch for easier backswing levering.

Channel: stayhandsy

Watch official source at 16:48

Try it

  1. Place the curve under the trail palm pad against the lead-thumb knuckle.
  2. Keep every finger pretty much the same distance apart.
  3. Curl and do your normal grip.