How can anything so bland, so inert and so preliminary as the grip be so important to
performance? If you take a poll among the millions of golfers who have received instruction,
you'll discover the grip wins "Golf's Dullest Principle Award" hands down (no pun intended).
Yet PGA teachers and tournament players line up with dutiful respect to extol the importance of
the grip as a Gibraltar-sized, rock-solid PRINCIPLE around which to build a golf swing.
One of the game's great teacher/player professionals, Tommy Armour, after a career of watching thousands of swings, said, "If I could stand the strain, I would devote at least a couple of weeks to grip instruction." He may have been exaggerating, but it showed how serious he was in expressing his feelings on the absolute high priority that grip plays in good golf. If one were endowed with hands like Armour's -- strong and supple -- he'd enjoy a distinct advantage in his potential to control the club. These attributes are an advantage, even for a player with untalented and unathletic hands, if he can learn to position them in a workable manner. Despite this fact, if an inspection were called for on the way most of the world's golfers place their hands on a golf club, it would reveal that faulty grips prevail. Ask the top 60 PGA Tour money winners participating at the weekly pro-ams in the US and they'll attest to the scarcity of sound grips among their amateur partners. It explains how an old chestnut like "you never see a good player with a bad grip or a bad player with a good grip" achieves credence. Golf does not make a difference! If one is seeking a higher authority on the issue, someone in the golfing immortal class, then let's wrap up this case for the grip's importance with a quote from a man who, when discussing golf, didn't waste words on trivia. He said simply, "Good golf begins with a good grip." Ben Hogan has spoken. |
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