Constant Grip Pressure - Big Key!

Sounds easy… It is for some, but not for others.

My method focuses on using the large muscles to control your golf swing. For the large muscles to take control, there must be no disruption from the hands taking over during the swing.

Once you learn this, the results are awesome. The more control you have over your grip pressure, the better you strike the ball. The feeling is that your shoulders, arms, and club are one unit—not disconnected levers and pieces hoping to reconnect at the ball.

Why is it difficult to keep your hands passive during the swing? A large part of our brains is dedicated to hand movement. We do so many things with our hands, and we start using them to accomplish tasks at a very young age.

So now Ross says, “Don’t use your hands to hit the ball.”

Well, some things take work and practice to overcome. Once you learn this, the trade-off is so worth it. The golf swing becomes effortless, continuous, repeatable, predictable, and powerful.

If you analyze the traditional golf swing, it’s hard to believe anyone could ever hit a ball. There are so many levers sliding, moving, lifting, and hinging, while the hands are rolling the clubface open and closed the whole time.

Learning to control your grip pressure keeps the clubface square throughout the swing, greatly improving direction. It also allows the shoulders to dominate the arms and club, creating powerful potential on the backswing and allowing the body to control the downswing.

Since the hands haven’t taken over and disrupted the flow, the clubface easily returns to impact square, with the shaft leading, for a repeatable, solid golf shot.

The best way to learn to control your grip pressure is to hit many, many shots into a net, with no focus on the ball’s result—just feedback from your body. You’ll feel your hands becoming more and more passive. You’ll hear your ball striking become more and more powerful.

Your grip pressure—about a 3 on a scale of 1 to 10—holds the grip just tightly enough to control the club.

Once again, you want to feel your shoulders, arms, and club become one unit that the body can control on the downswing.