Part of the reason this project is taking so long to complete is that I am still looking at things while I’m putting all of the components together.
I have in the past couple of days spent a good deal of time looking at the grip instruction in my previous videos, and finding them OK for showing the “standard neutral grip” that I have always advocated, but there’s something else I want to offer.
I have been looking at the old Classic era swingers and you’ll remember the extensive work I put into swinging with various degrees of weakness to the grip, and I have determined that, if I were able to swing a club right now, I would be using what I have called the “Nicklaus grip.”
Now, you can see for yourselves what this looks like:
… but a funny thing happens with just observing something – if that’s all that was required, you wouldn’t need a swing video to go out and set up like Jack and pivot like Hogan.
A lot is lost in the process that involves looking at something and then copying it yourself – something called “feel” invariably raises its head and the end product looks nothing like what you’re trying to copy, even though you could swear that this is what you’re doing.
So, I’m trying to figure out a way to shoot a video segment on the Nicklaus grip here at home, so that I can illustrate the real difference between the “neutral standard grip” and the “Nicklaus grip.”
There is a definite reason why the old guys had grips that we would call very weak:
Snead, Nicklaus, Hogan & Nelson
… and I have that reason for you.
I said that this was going to be a better video, technically if not visually, than any other I’ve done, and I know that it’s taking longer than I had promised, but I would rather get it done to my satisfaction, because there’s a reason I took all of my videos down – I was no longer satisfied with them.
Many apologies for the delay to anyone eagerly awaiting this, but I am on it!
The work continues.
WAX Golf 
two guesses:
2. (setup issue) Modern swingers set up with C7 in the middle of stance and allow their head to shift back in the back swing, meaning impact doesn’t look the same as setup contact point (they also swipe instead of gravity dropping the club into the ground?)
Those and other reasons, Kaushal. I used to have a super-strong grip because I would slice the ball, but you fix that by getting on plane in the down swing and not turning through impact. The grip was my bugaboo for so many years, I had a near-perfect swing but the over-strong grip meant that when I went after a shot, the hands would turn over and I’d snap-hook it off the planet.
And all it was, was the grip. Years.
makes complete sense – the harder you go after it, the more the wrists want to return to neutral so the more you’re punished for a non-neutral setup
since the shoulders are tilted trailside in the leaning A Nicklaus setup, the grip should be neutral with respect to shoulders right which tricks the observer into thinking the trail hand is very weak?
Also correct. But you’ll see that far more people have a stronger grip than neutral, and it wreaks havoc on the swing because of the compensations and adjustments required to strike the ball properly. The easiest fix in the world is the grip, which is our only contact with the club itself.
also remember you saying interlocking grip can look make the trail hand look weaker than overlapping?
Correct!
DJ – Take all the time you need to make the video YOU want! For those of us who know your previous work, the process takes time to effectively deliver clear, unambigous instructional information…
Always in your corner!
You’re a gentleman and a scholar, Peter 😊
What is the mechanically correct putting grip? Curious how it changes with such a large, square grip shape
I remember you said the baseball grip is good for large grips instead of a finger tip grip
specifically curious whether you keep thumbs on the down the line sides of the putter grip or on the face on side
For putting, I am pretty much laissez-faire, Kaushal.
I prefer a simple grip with the trailing palm and back of the leading hand square to the putting line.
Comfort is the thing. I’ve never really seen a putting grip that screamed needing a change.