Stop Flipping the Golf Club with the Proper Use of the Left Pinky

You don't often hear much about the pinky in your grip, but there are some surprising influences that it has on your golf swing and whether you achieve a flat lead wrist at impact.

In this video, I talk about the biomechanics behind the connection of your pinky on your lead hand and the influence it has on tension in your swing and the impact position.

Are you flat or do you flip? The position of your lead wrist at impact goes a long way toward dictating what type of ball striker you will be, and the pinky has an influence on this position. Understanding this connection is part of what makes the AI swing analyzer so valuable for diagnosing grip-related flaws automatically.

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The Secret to the Golf Grip – The Pinky (Video Transcript)

I don’t consider there to be too many secrets in the golf swing, but there are certain fundamentals that are very important and often overlooked. As you learn to master the game over time, you pick up on things that may seem insignificant, but to another golfer may be a game changer. Understanding the nuances of the correct golf grip is one of those things.

This little nugget of golf wisdom is something I actually learned through my physical therapist who has an amazing understanding of golf biomechanics. I know a lot of you disregard biomechanics of the golf swing because you see golfers who seem to have horrible golf swings yet still play very well. But, the reality is that biomechanics have a huge impact on your ability to play good golf and even something as small as the pinky of the lead hand for right-handed golfers can have a significant impact.

When a golfer takes his grip with the lead hand, the pinky tends to be overlooked and the middle two fingers of the lead hand tend to steal the show. This can be detrimental to your golf swing, especially if you tend to flip the club through impact. So, let’s do an experiment.

Take the middle two fingers and curl them and squeeze tightly and see where you feel the muscular tension. If you pay close attention, you will note that the tension from this muscular contraction travels all the way up your arm and even up into your head just behind your jaw. Very interesting and I’ll talk about why this is important in just a second.

Now, do the same thing with just your pinky. Interestingly, you will notice that you will really only feel tension in the bottom half of your forearm and it doesn’t travel up your arm into your neck. So, why is this important?

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