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The Body Swing — How to Build a Powerful, Effortless Golf Swing by Paul Wilson
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FIRST EDITION
CHAPTER 5
GRIP & SETUP

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 GRIP & SETUP

B efore we get to the swing positions, we need to work on our grip and setup. The grip and setup are considered positions as well.
They have so many elements and are so important that I felt they deserved their own chapter.

A faulty grip and setup makes it impossible for you to develop a consistent golf swing. A faulty grip and setup leads to you having
other flaws in your golf swing. Who wants flaws in their swing? No one who wants to play great golf.

Working on the grip and setup is uncomfortable and not a lot of fun, but think about it this way: you're not actually swinging yet. If
you're not swinging, you have time to make sure it's perfect. This is what pros are doing when you see them doing their set up
routine. They're putting themselves in the perfect position to hit the shot. This is how you need to think as well.

So take your time and make the grip and setup important. Practice it at home in a mirror as well as at the range. This way you can
check everything and develop a routine so you can do it when you play. Mastering the grip and setup is the first step in copying
what pros are doing. Why would you not want to look like a pro?

Almost every person I've taught over the last 25 years has a faulty grip and setup (this is tens of thousands of people). If this many
people are doing the grip and setup wrong, it leads me to believe people aren't being taught properly, they're misinterpreting
what's being taught or they don't see it's importance. By the time you're finished with the chapter, you'll understand its importance
as well as exactly how to do it, and you'll want to constantly check it to make sure it's perfect.

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NEUTRAL GRIP NEUTRAL GRIP

I want you to see your hands and wrists as a hinge. You know, a hinge like the hinge holding your door to the door frame. Imagine
grabbing your door knob and swing your door open and closed. What do you feel? You feel nothing, a looseness or no resistance.
This is because there’s no resistance in a hinge. It simply opens and closes. This is how loose your wrists should be as you swing.
Don't mistake this looseness for a letting go of the club. Your grip is secure. It's your wrists that are loose. In order to replicate this
looseness in your wrists, you need to learn the neutral grip.

To learn perfect placement, you'll need to work on both hands and their positioning as well as choosing the type of grip you'll be
using. Typically, the top hand is the easier of the hands to master while for most people, the bottom hand is incredibly uncomfort-
able.

Keep in mind, this uncomfortable feeling is due to taking the power out of your hands. Your wrists act as a hinging unit. There's no
power in a hinge. The looser the hinge, the faster it swings. This understanding should give you incentive to allow you to achieve
perfect positioning no matter how bad it feels.

Too many people just quickly place their hands on the club without either caring about positioning or even checking it. You cannot
do The Body Swing without a neutral grip, so take your time to understand why you're doing it and keep checking and practicing it.

Once mastered, the grip feels solid and connected while allowing the wrists to act as this loose hinge. It's just the early stages of
changing it that'll have you second guessing it and wanting to go back to your old, more comfortable positioning.

Think about the grip as a test. If you pass this test (as all pros have) you have the chance to build a great overall swing. If you cannot
pass this test, you're destined for a lifetime of inconsistent golf.

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GO AGAINST HUMAN NATURE: Human nature is telling you to have a strong, powerful feeling in your hands so you can hit
the ball hard. Although this feels powerful, it causes you to tighten your wrists. The tighter your wrists, the slower the club
swings. From now on see your wrists as a hinge. They hinge ... they rehinge. The looser the hinge, the faster the club swings.
By doing the neutral grip, you can achieve this looseness in the wrists and reduce the sidespin on your shots. No matter how
bad it feels keep practicing and checking it. This is vital if you want to learn The Body Swing.

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 TOP HAND STEPS

1. Close the gap. 2. Start with thumb straight down. 3. Turn thumb slightly off center.

Too Strong Too Weak IMPORTANT: The position of the top

hand determines the position of the
pic - 1 knuckle XXXXXXXX bottom hand.

Too strong and your bottom hand will

not be able to wrap on top.

Too weak and your top hand will wrap

on top too much or have too many
gaps.

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 TOP HAND GRIP

See 2 knuckles
when looking down CLUB RUNS ACROSS PALM

Thumb slightly
LINE POINTS off center
BETWEEN
BACK EAR AND
SHOULDER gap between
thumb & hand
is closed

FEELINGS: Grip feels secure in the top hand running across the palm, not in the fingers. Holding the club in the fingers is a
FEELINGS - Club
weak position is held
in your acrossweaker
typically the palm in aItsecure
hand. position
also allows for over-cupping of the lead wrist which will open the face at the top.
If the top hand is your stronger hand you have an advantage because you can hold the club more securely and won't dominate
your swing with the bottom hand. If this is you, continue to place your top hand in this position.

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 BOTTOM HAND STEPS

1. Curl fingers. 2. Place club in fingers. 3. Wrap hand on top.

Too Strong Too Weak Not Secure

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 BOTTOM HAND GRIP

COVER TOP THUMB

LINE ALSO HOLDING CLUB
IN FINGERS
POINTS
BETWEEN
BACK EAR AND
SHOULDER

CLOSE THIS GAP

FEELINGS: The grip feels very weak in the bottom hand due to holding the club in the fingers. Remember, you don't want
power in your
FEELINGS hands.
- Club If you're
is held acrossholding
the palmonintoo tight you'll
a secure tighten your wrist (hinge). The tighter the hinge, the slower the club
position
will swing. The placement of this hand takes immense concentration and determination because human nature wants you to
have strength in this hand. No matter how bad you hit the ball (once you change to the neutral grip) keep doing, and checking
it, until you're used to it. The payoff is that you can have loose wrists and not severely hook the ball.

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 STRONG IS WRONG
If your hands are rotated into a strong position on the club, you cannot have loose wrists. If you did, you would severely hook every
ball. This is because your hands, through impact, will want to hit the ball with your palms facing each other if the club is released.
After seeing your shots severely hook, you would do something to try to straighten them out. This would include mis-aligning your
body, tightening your wrists, setting up with the face open or sliding your body too much laterally. Instead of fixing your grip, you
would add other flaws to try to straighten out your shots. If this occurs you'd have a swing with flaws and you would be still hitting
hard with your hands and arms. You're doing a neutral grip so you can have loose wrists and not hit severe hooks. Although uncom-
fortable at first, you really have to stick with it; and now you know why you have to, you'll want to.

Too Strong Neutral

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 WEAK IS JUST AS BAD
Another grip some people do is a weak grip. This is found in people who’ve been taught the neutral grip but overdid it. In doing
so, they over-rotated their bottom hand too much on top of the top hand. Although this grip feels weak and powerless, it would
take a manual rolling of the wrists to square the face through impact. In other words, you would have to release the club more than
a pro just to square the face. It doesn’t make sense that you should be rolling your wrists excessively throughout your swing just
because your grip is too weak. If this is you, make sure you back the bottom hand off more than necessary into a strong position
seen on the previous page for about 20-30 shots. I say this because this weak grip is comfortable to you. This means you'll want
to keep going back to it. So back it off too much for a while, then move it into the correct neutral position.

Too Weak Neutral

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 CHOOSING YOUR GRIP

If you haven't done so, you need to choose which grip you're going to use. I prefer the Overlapping Grip but if you do decide on one
of the other grips, make sure your bottom hand is in the perfect position. The Interlocking Grip is not the most popular but many
great players have used it successfully. Even the 10 Finger grip has won professional golf tournaments.

OVERLAPPING INTERLOCKING 10 FINGER

I promote the Overlapping Grip because Although many great players do the I don’t want you to do a 10 Finger Grip. The
holding it this way takes one finger of your Interlocking Grip, I don't promote it only exception is someone with a medical
stronger hand off the club. Taking one because it takes one finger of your typi- issue. This grip causes you to hold onto the
finger of your stronger hand off the club cally weaker hand off the club. Also, club in a strong position in your strong
helps weaken this hand so you don't try to most golfers who do this grip rotate it into hand. With a strong grip, you cannot have
hit with it. If you've done any of the other too strong of a position as they interlock loose wrists. If you did you'd hook every
grips this will take a while to get used to the pinky of the bottom hand. This cre- shot. To stop the ball from hooking you
but you'll find that this grip will allow for ates a powerful feeling but this power in would tighten your wrists. We need loose
better connection and proper positioning your hands may cause you to use your wrists to develop a powerful, effortless
of the top hand. arms instead of your body to hit the ball. golf swing.

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 GRIP PRESSURE

Grip pressure is very important. When trying to make your hands and arms powerless you may get a false sense of the looseness
I’m talking about. Loose wrists isn't a letting go of the club. The idea is to have a secure grip and loose wrists. I know this sounds
impossible but it can be done. Start at 2 out of 10 at setup. Gradually increase to 8 out of 10 throughout the rest of the swing.

DRILL – If you find you're letting

go of the club place a tee 1 inch into
the top pad of your top hand and hit
balls without dropping the tee. I did
this drill hitting every practice ball
for 1 month. I never let go after that.

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 CHECK YOUR GRIP CONSTANTLY
If you’re not currently doing the perfect neutral grip it’ll take some getting used to. This means you have to practice it as well as
check it constantly. To practice it, I suggest placing your hands on a club while you’re watching TV. When the commercials come
on, take your hands off of the club. When the show comes back on, do the grip again and hold it as you continue watching.

Training grips are quite good these days. I have a short club with a training grip and it perfectly molds to my hands allowing them
to be in the perfect neutral position. This would be a good tool to be holding on when to while you’re watching TV.

When you go to play or practice, I want you to be constantly checking your grip. To do this, take your set up with the perfect grip.
Once on, simply hinge the club up towards your nose. As you do, you’ll be able to see your grip. Check if there are 2 knuckles
showing on the top hand, you can’t see your top thumb and the "V" or line on the bottom hand points between your back ear and
shoulder (page 39). This check only takes a few seconds. Try to do it after every 10 balls or so when you're learning the grip so
you make sure it's perfect.

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 WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN YOU CHANGE
I have to tell you that learning the neutral grip will feel awful. Typically, you’ll be moving from a strong grip to a weaker feeling grip.
You won’t like it at first so you’ll hold on too tight. The new grip, plus the fact that it's too tight will cause you to hit the ball with a
push or push slice. Most people see these bad shots and they go right back to their old strong grip after only 3 attempts with the
new grip. REMEMBER: you cannot have loose wrists with a strong grip. You need to keep hitting ball after ball with this new grip
no matter how bad it feels or where the ball goes. After about 30 shots, you’ll start to see the ball fly straighter, you're wrists will
loosen and you'll finally accept the new grip. To me, hitting 30 balls in a row is a small price to pay to learn a great grip; but you’d
be amazed at how quickly people will stop doing it even after I’ve explained its importance and how it’s vital to keeping your wrists
loose throughout your swing. Stay focused and fight through it. All pros went through this so you need to learn it too.

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I truly hope you've enjoyed the Grip chapter from The Body Swing book. The grip is critical in learning the Body Swing because

you cannot have loose wrists with a strong grip. If your grip is weak you would have to roll your wrists over more than a pro just to

square the clubface. Neutral allows you to have loose wrists without putting any excess sping on the ball. The looser your wrists,

the faster the club will swing.

Although uncomfortable, it's vital that you master the netural grip. Too many average golfers rush through it but now that you

understand it, and how mastering this will allow you to have loose wrists when you swing, you'll want to do it not matter how bad

it feels. REMEMBER: You need to hit at least 30 shots in a row for it to even start feeling compfortable. If you make through

these 30 balls, you'll start to see it's effect on your shots.

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