What would you do ?????

[Dreamer2]

The coach as just changed my grip,,,with my old grip of the tee with the driver was great the distance about 200yrds mostly straight
the old grip with the irons was mostly straight but my alignment was why to the left of target so most of the time it was a guess hoping the ball would go to target

With the new grip driver off the tee is very bad all round
with the irons my body is lined to target & that's roughly were the ball is going very happy

Would you go back to the old grip of the tee with the driver ?????

 

[HawkeyeMS]

No no no. Waste of time having lessons if you're not gonna trust the pro. It takes time to get changes right you have to be patient.

 

[Steve King]

No no no. Waste of time having lessons if you're not gonna trust the pro. It takes time to get changes right you have to be patient.

Totally agree!

 

[Ethan]

Give it time. It usually gets worse before it gets better.

 

[Lump]

Having had my grip changed from very strong to a much weaker neutral position. It is very disconcerting the lack of feel or control does play with the mind. But stick with it, your grip is the only thing connecting you to the club. It has to be right, if your grip is wrong you'll never be able to make progress with your swing.
Stick at it and believe in your pro.

 

[Mark_G]

Golf lessons seem to be quite like religion,
you have a problem, so you go to the preacher.
He advises you.
You can ignore his advice, and you will just carry on in the same old way or you can have faith.
After keeping the faith, practicing religiously improvements should come.

Keep practicing on the range. This is advice from the forum members, that I am following and having results with.

 

[Phil2511]

As the other guys have said I can agree stick at it.
Have taken lessons and become bad until they bed in, you might think you have only changed your grip, but you have also altered the muscle position in your wrists and forearms up to your elbow, now you must train your muscle memory to allow this grip change to become normal and natural, so the more often you practice it the quicker it should happen.
When it does you should see your distance return and usually gain on distance but be able to hit the ball at the target without aiming left.

 

[Steve In Spain]

Leave the driver in the bag until range days..then use it.

Use your 3 wood off of the tee.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Are you sure there isn't another swing issue causing the problems. If you've had alingnment issues I'd be checking the basics such as grip (making sure your're not sub-consciously going back to old habits) alignment, posture and ball position. If you are confident they are pretty solid and the new grip is neutral then the issue is in the swingpath

 

[JustOne]

I think the grip is a very personal thing and wish pros would just leave it alone unless there's something drastically wrong. You get tour pros with weak/strong/neutral grips so there is no 'right' way, ...only guidelines.

 

[Steve In Spain]

He does have a point does Just...

 

[GTO NEMESIS]

I found my new grip was very very odd to start with.
Now it's very natural and I can't hit a ball using my old grip! (Club going diagonally through my palm).

It took me about 200 balls to make it natural. Hit ball, take hands of club, regrip and start again.

 

[danbaylis]

Just to echo the above, I went through the same. It feels so weird but worth it. Just need to practice what the pro teaches.