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We have rarely seen anybody too stiff or too tight in swinging a golf club (except perhaps for frightened beginners), but we have seen thousands too loose. Therefore our aim is to prevent applying a loose grip. We really don't even want a firm grip. We want a tight grip.

Don't grip your golf club so tightly that it creates tension in the muscles of your shoulders and upper arms, but maintain a firm grip on the club. You may be wondering how you should keep your wrists. If you keep them too tight, you'll have a stiff swing, and you won't get a proper wrist break.

Never mind about the wrists. The whole tendency in pupils is to take too light a putting grip. The loose grip leads into faultsopening the hands at the top, collapsing the left wrist, over-swinging, and so on. The tight golf club grip, though it may feel awkward for a while, acts as a brace against these various faults and makes the whole swinging action easier to perform correctly.

A many golf player has placed their hands incorrectly on their clubs, by placing the forefinger of their right hand too light on the club; this is the hand that hooks around the shaft just below the right thumb. Don't do this! You have to take a tight grip on the club. What is meant by taking a tight grip on the club is that most of your fingers have to be on the club, the last three fingers of the left hand and the first three of the right.

Hook this finger around the shaft firmly, so that the tip of it makes a definite contact with the tip of the thumb. If you don't, the club will be liable to drop, at the top of the swing, into the big V between the forefinger and thumb. This means a loss of control at the top, which must be regained as the club comes down.

Now, how do we stand up the ball? No great mystery is involved in this either, although certain points must be observed.

First, we need to get into a position that helps us swing the club with ease and return it to the ball in a reverse arc effortlessly. In order to do this, your weight needs to be evenly distributed between your feet, with knees a bit flexed, but not too slightly. Your body needs to bend just a bit from your waist, however your shoulders ought to be slouched inward or downward.

The head show be bowed, but not too much, but lowered instead of raised. The right shoulder should be lower than the left shoulder since the right hand is placed more far away from the shaft than the left hand is.

You now possess the knowledge of how to apply the correct amount of tension to your golf club grip. You also have learned how tight to hold the club and the proper stance. All you need now is practice!

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