Critique my grip please

This is how I have been gripping my clubs when I hit.

I've been very pleased with how I hit; nice high, long, straight ball flights with all my clubs. However, my chipping was horrible. No accuracy, and no distance control. I think when I was chipping with this grip my hands were getting involved too much, thus ruining the chip.

So today I've been practicing chipping with my hands rotated inwards:

The results has been great. Very accurate (I'm chipping the ball within 18-24 inches of my target), and distance control really isn't a problem anymore. It feels like I'm swinging more with my arms and upper body, and that my hands are much more "quiet." However, I can't hit with a full swing for the life of me. I get ball in the air with no difficulty, but either slice or hook it very badly. (and I have no idea which one it is going to be)

So, should I use one grip over the other, and just practice until all the bugs are worked out? Or should I use two different grips for different shots? Or am I doing something fundamentallly wrong with one or both grips?

Any help/advice/recommendations is/are appreciated. Thanks!

it sounds to me like a swing issue more than a grip issue. if you are hitting it long and strait i wouldn't change too much, but for your chipping, i would say use the same grip just don't change your swing. i think you may be changing you swing unknowingly. from 18-24" you want to probly putt if it is in the fringe. if the rough, use your highest lofted club and make sure that you accelerate through the ball and let the loft of the club give it a short distance. some people have a problem trying to hit so soft they don't accelerate through impact which usually thins of fats it and doesn't use the club loft and goes too far. it sounds wierd but if you accerate through the ball the ball will roll up the face of the club and get backspin and high trajectory and land soft and short. you want to keep a quiet body on backswing and use just hands ans maybe and very little arm movement back..... but on your forward swing still let the body rotate and keep the right hand cupped and accerate through impact.


another good tip i have ehard to help with chipping is that you always want to land on the green anywhere close to 3 feet to the edge of the green so you can get it rolling as soon as posible.

now you want to walk from your ball to the 3' zone and then from that 3' zone to the hole. you agre getting a ratio of paces from ball to zone and zone to hole.

here is what you do with that ratio. if the ratio is 1/1 then use your pw, it it is 1/2 use your 9i, 1/3 8i, 1/4 7i, 1/5 6i.

that means if you walk 2 paces to the zone, then 10 paces to the hole, that would mean you would need more roll and the ratio being 1/5 you would use your 6i.

or 4 paces to zone 8 paces to hole you would want your 9i because that is 1/2 ratio.

enough examples i think you get it. that works great for me.


sorry for length, HTH

I think you fixed my problem! I went back out tonight to practiced chipping some more and guess what? I was deaccelerating the clubhead though impact in trying to hit a soft chip. What happened was I was not able to control the club as well with the second grip I was using (the inward grip) and so the clubhead just sort of "fell" through the ball and could not deaccelerate. That also explains why I could not control the club nor the ball flight on full iron shots while using the second grip. With my first grip I could control the club better, but that also allowed me to deaccelerate the clubhead through impact. I think I'll stick solely with my first grip. Now all I have to do is practice to ensure that I accelerate through the ball while chipping!

I'm going to try that ratio/roll chipping formula too. It sounds pretty cool.

Thanks for everything!

glad to hear it worked