{"id":8621,"date":"2026-08-03T11:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T18:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=8621"},"modified":"2026-07-31T11:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:58:13","slug":"all-you-need-to-know-about-grip-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/all-you-need-to-know-about-grip-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"All You Need to Know About Grip Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the life of this blog I have written about a dozen posts on grip pressure. But they never got to the heart of the matter. That’s because I didn’t really understand it until lately.<\/p>\n

It’s all very simple, involving these two principles.<\/p>\n

1. Take a light grip pressure at address. Better to call it a gentle pressure. There should be no feeling of squeezing the handle.<\/p>\n

2. Maintain that same degree of pressure THROUGHOUT THE SWING. This is the heart of the matter.<\/p>\n

It does you no good to have light grip pressure at address if you throw it away by squeezing the club during the swing. <\/p>\n

By continuing to hold on lightly, all of you, not just your hands, stays relaxed so the club can swing freely and accurately though the ball. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the life of this blog I have written about a dozen posts on grip pressure. But they never got to the heart of the matter. That’s because I didn’t really understand it until lately. It’s all very simple, involving these two principles. 1. Take a light grip pressure at address. Better to call it … Continue reading All You Need to Know About Grip Pressure<\/span> →<\/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-8621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-2f3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621","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=8621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8625,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621\/revisions\/8625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}