Golf Tips - Golf Grips

Male Speaker: Oh! Beautiful, just beautiful! Okay, lovely! I'm going to leave you and have a look at Remme (ph) here. But before I do, I'm going to strip off here because this beautiful Sun down here on the Riviera is getting to me. Now, that was one of your tight ones, one of your stiff ones, again, one more please. Okay, now line yourself up a little bit, first of all, when you take your address position, remember, no, I don't want the ball outside of your left foot. It's going to be just inside now. Put your left foot here. Remee: Here? Male Speaker: That's fine. Okay. Remee: Okay. Male Speaker: Straighten this foot up a little bit so it's like this, you see, straight in front of you, like this. That's perfect! Okay. Now, make sure that your shoulders are lined up the same way as your feet. Here are your feet, and here are your shoulders. Everything then is nicely parallel to where you're going. Super! Okay. Now, separate those arms from the shoulders. Okay, nice and loose. Fine, let it go. That looks a good position there. Much better, really super. Okay, now there is a criticism, however, for both of you, and I think we better get you both out. Well, Ruth, could you come over here a moment please? If you both stand here and let me do the work now, okay. You've done enough practice for a little while. Take a break and watch how I'm going to educate your hands, because when I watched you practice, yup, you are right Remee, this, too stiff, too stiff. Remee: Yeah. Male Speaker: Okay? Now look, most important, look at this little movement that I'm going to do for you here. Okay? You've probably seen this when some golfers are on the golf course, just before hitting the ball. You see what I do, they're like this. Now, two reasons, one to give them a little bit of relaxation before starting, and the other reason is they're feeling the club head. If you don't know where the club head is, if you can't feel it -- Remee: Yeah, you can't find the ball. Male Speaker: You don't find the ball, you can't control it. Now, on any golf course at any day of the year, you're going to see golfers like this. They probably haven't taken any lessons, but they've got a good natural instinct that they find the ball pretty well, you watch, they're like this. Hey, really not a very good swing at all, but look at that beautiful golf shot, because this guy can find the ball. His only interest is controlling his club head to arrive on the ball at the right time. You're both too young and good-looking to have a style like that. Okay, that's for other people, not for you two. We're going to have you looking really great, but I prefer you to swing like that. If I teach you a good swing, and you can't hit the ball, like this one. Watch this golfer. This golfer, he's had lots of lessons, but unfortunately, he's never learned to find the ball. He's never learned to control his club head. Did you see that? Remee: You missed it. Male Speaker: Exactly, and his ball has moved exactly five centimeters, perfect golf swing in five centimeters, we don't want that. We want a nice combination between style and finding the ball. Okay. I've got an exercise for you which will help quite a lot. Okay. Watch this now. First of all, put the club out in front of you, and just swing your arms and your hands like this, alright, controlling the club head. You're taking the club back there with your hands and arms and your wrists and you're bringing through there with exactly the same action. Got it? Alright, now let's do some circles. Don't move your shoulders, not like this, I don't want that, I want this, circles, and then, a few squares. Draw a few squares. I know what you're going to ask me, what's this got to do with golf, right? Well, all it is, is an exercise to feel the end of the club. A very, very fine golfer, a British golfer called Henry Cotton is a marvelous player with the hands. He can do incredible things with his golf club. And he always says that educated hands are important. I am absolutely in agreement with him, educated hands, you must learn to use them. Okay? Alright, now let's combine the two things, good swing, good hands. Okay, would you too like to do that now, but before you hit balls, I want the exercise with your hands. Okay, Ruth, Remee right here.