What Finger Touches the Club First?

     

WHAT DOES THE TYPICAL GOLFER DO?

Golfers tend to focus on the pinky and ring finger of both hands.    

(I have heard some say you should grip a club as if you are shaking someone’s hand.  When shaking someone’s hand or picking up and placing any implement into one’s hands the first finger to touch is the index finger, not the pinky and not the ring finger).  

    

There is too much focus on the left hand and not enough on the right.  It is counter-intuitive.

THE MECHANICS: THE PINKY AND RING FINGER BALANCE AGAINST THE BUTT OR MEATY PART OF THE HAND. 

WHAT IS NATURAL: We pick up all implements; bats, balls pennies, pens and pencils, first by finding and touching it with our thumb, counterbalancing it with our index fingers before balancing and picking it up. 

WHAT DO BASEBALL PLAYERS DO?

In sequence: First, they find the handle of the bat with either their thumb or index finger then balance out the weight before heaving it up whichever hand they choose to do it with.  Once the barrel is balanced and controlled place the other hand on.  

DO IN GOLF AS YOU DO IN BASEBALL:

Exercise: Grab a bat.  Pick it up.  Which finger of what hand touches the bat first?   It is the index finger not the pinky and ring finger.  

Now: Attempt to pick up the bat the way we are told to do as golfers with the pinky and ring fingers.  Again, place the bat into your hands.  

Notice: Which finger of which hand touches the bat first, copy doing the same with a club. 

Also: It is important to notice which finger of the second hand touches the bat first then to apply that strategy and sequence to the club. 

 

Anything other than what we do is either trying to reinvent the wheel, an attempt to control nature, or thinking we are smarter than thousands of years of evolution and development. 

Why do anything other than what we do?