{"id":8121,"date":"2024-08-27T07:15:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T14:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=8121"},"modified":"2024-08-27T07:09:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T14:09:50","slug":"what-light-grip-pressure-does-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/what-light-grip-pressure-does-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What Light Grip Pressure Does For You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I wrote a post about <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/the-soft-golf-grip\/\">light grip pressure<\/a>, which I renamed soft grip pressure. I titled this post &#8220;light grip pressure&#8221; for SEO reasons, but I still mean &#8220;soft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But why have soft grip pressure? Because it gives you the clubhead speed you have coming to  you.<\/p>\n<p>If you hold the handle too tightly, you tense up your arms, shoulders, torso, and actually slow down the clubhead. <\/p>\n<p>Try gripping a baseball tightly and throwing it as far as you can. Then grip it lightly and see. It goes a lot farther with number two.<\/p>\n<p>Same thing with a golf club, especially your driver. The clubhead doesn&#8217;t have to hit the ball hard, but fast. <\/p>\n<p>A soft grip sends the clubhead into the ball unrestrained. Free distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I wrote a post about light grip pressure, which I renamed soft grip pressure. I titled this post &#8220;light grip pressure&#8221; for SEO reasons, but I still mean &#8220;soft.&#8221; But why have soft grip pressure? Because it gives you the clubhead speed you have coming to you. If you hold the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/what-light-grip-pressure-does-for-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Light Grip Pressure Does For You<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-26Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8127,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121\/revisions\/8127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}