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Tuesday Quick Tip: Fix Your Grip To Fix Your Slice

Plus, in Trivia: Who Invented the Interlocking Grip?

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Wild Golf
February 25, 2025

Happy Tuesday! Spring is near The slice is always the topic of conversation when swing flaws are mentioned - you know, that big high ball that starts on one side of the fairway and proceeds to bounce off the roof of a house on the opposite side?!! What if we told you that the solution to your slice literally lies in your own hands? Bad joke, we know… but fixing your grip can help eliminate that big slice and have you hitting more fairways in no time!

Let’s get into it!

TIPS & DRILLS
Change Your Grip To Fix Your Slice!
@ericcogorno shows how the right hand can make or break your swing
To Recap…

The slice has plagued golfers for eons (or at least a few hundred years), and it’s always at the top of the list of things a player wants to fix (aside from shanks, but we won’t even go there today). The biggest cause of a slice has to do with the club face angle at impact - if the club face is too “open” as you hit the ball, that ball is going to curve, plain and simple. With today’s quick tip, Eric Cogorno addresses the role that the trail hand plays in squaring the club face through impact:

STEP 1: As you grip the club, take your trail hand off and lay it palm facing up on your right leg.
STEP 2: Take your trail hand and place it on the grip more underneath the club as opposed to on top of it. The “V” angle that’s formed by your trail thumb and index finger on the club should be pointing back at your trail shoulder.
STEP 3: As your trail hand is placed on the grip, be aware of your shoulder angle - a high right shoulder is good indicator that your grip is too weak. To fix this, as your right hand moves more “underneath” the club, your right shoulder should drop, which is another anti-slice move - PERFECT!

PRO TIP: Changing your grip is one of the most uncomfortable things that you can do in golf because it directly impacts club face angle at impact. Rory McIlroy once said that when he changed his right hand position on the golf club, it took him 5,000 shots for it to become comfortable. Don’t worry if it feels awkward - good things take time, so trust the process.

TODAY’S TRIVIA
Answer to Win a BirdieBall 3’x12’ Indoor Putting Mat
(1 winner chosen on 2/28/25 across all February trivia entries, 1,000 correct respondents minimum)

Who is credited with inventing the interlocking grip?

Hint: He released a book in 1932 and it was the first mention of it

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