Swinglowandslow
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The last two days have been bad ones, swing all wrong it seems. Mostly the ball gets hooked or pulled , mainly irons and fairway woods. Driver not too bad.
Same thing happening today, and as I took stance etc, I began to notice how easy it was for my grip to change the lie of the club.
Seems that when my grip was really comfortable that the face had closed. It was so easy for the club to be closed when the grip felt comfortable, and it wasn't easy to hold the club with a straight face!
When I tried to do that, the club felt uncomfortable in the grip , and gave me the impression that when the swing started it would probably go back to being closed when the strike happened.
Obvious answer- weaken the grip or take the grip with an more open face.....
But, it wasn't that easy.
If the club was rested on the ground and held loosely in the palm of one hand it seemed to naturally lie with a closed face.
Could this be possible ? Could it be a question of the how the grip is on the club, or sosmerhing like that.?
These are relatively new clubs with the original grips. Driver has a completely different grip, a wrap around type I believe it's called.
Are there grips available which tend to make the natural lie of the club open or closed?
Or is it all my imagination ?
Same thing happening today, and as I took stance etc, I began to notice how easy it was for my grip to change the lie of the club.
Seems that when my grip was really comfortable that the face had closed. It was so easy for the club to be closed when the grip felt comfortable, and it wasn't easy to hold the club with a straight face!
When I tried to do that, the club felt uncomfortable in the grip , and gave me the impression that when the swing started it would probably go back to being closed when the strike happened.
Obvious answer- weaken the grip or take the grip with an more open face.....
But, it wasn't that easy.
If the club was rested on the ground and held loosely in the palm of one hand it seemed to naturally lie with a closed face.
Could this be possible ? Could it be a question of the how the grip is on the club, or sosmerhing like that.?
These are relatively new clubs with the original grips. Driver has a completely different grip, a wrap around type I believe it's called.
Are there grips available which tend to make the natural lie of the club open or closed?
Or is it all my imagination ?