Greg,

Sorry for the confusion.

Let me rephrase that.

You must be able to meet all those conditions independently but not all at the same time.

90* angle with left forearm and club. Square clubface at address. Swing from square-to-square-to-square.

Obviously, you can't form a 90* angle with the left forearm and the club while you address the ball. Think of it as you must do different jobs with the same grip.

If I turn the logic around.

If you grip the club properly so that you can strike the ball properly, you will be able to meet all those conditions independently without fail. Instead of trying to tell you how to grip the club outright, which I'm certain I can't because your hands are different than mine yet work in the same fashion as mine, I tell you what conditions your grip must meet. I tried all kinds of different methods to grip the club and I found that there's only one method that allows me to meet all those conditions and it's that method that also allows me to strike the ball properly. The most important condition is that the fingers must not slip or move on the grip of the club as I meet all the other conditions.

What do you do when you swing the club if not:

address the ball with the clubface square
_then_
form a 90* angle with the left forearm and the club with the clubface square
_then_
address the ball again with the clubface square as you strike it
_then_
form a 90* angle with the left forearm and the club again with the clubface square?

And no, the way you grip the club now doesn't allow you to control the club properly.

Something else that's rarely pointed out. With which fingers to grip the club strongly and not so strongly? Counting from the pinky (right handed), left hand 1-2-3 strong pressure, right hand 2-3 strong pressure. All other fingers including both thumbs, you could take them off the grip and still be able to control the club properly. In fact, that's a drill I use to teach myself what I forget once in a while. I grip the club with only these fingers and take off and extend all other fingers and hit a few balls down the range.


Martin Levac