How does it work?

Inconsistency prevents so many amateur golfers from shooting lower scores and having more fun on the golf course. We want to hit our best shots more often, but poor moves somewhere in the swing bring a crooked clubface back to the ball on the wrong angle of attack or moving along the wrong path. All manner of miscues result and the game becomes a constant struggle. One of the most overlooked, but most common, causes of inconsistency and poor contact with the ball is a disconnection in the grip at the top of the backswing. It’s such a small, often sub-conscious, separation that many golfers might not even be aware of. But it is unquestionably the root of countless poor shots. Read how some of the game’s greatest players and teachers stress the importance of maintaining the connection between the hands:

• Ben Hogan in Five Lessons – The Modern Fundamentals of Golf: ‘In a good grip, both hands work as one unit.’
• Tommy Armour in How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time: ‘When you haven’t got the connection between the hands functioning properly, your arms, elbows, shoulders, body, legs and feet can’t work in the correct manner.’ Also, ‘Loosening the left hand grip and losing the connection is the most serious frequent error at the top of many golfers’ backswing.’
• Percy Boomer in On Learning Golf: ‘The hands must start and remain close together so the wrists are close together and can operate as one large hinge.’
• Harvey Penick in Little Red Golf Book: ‘Whichever grip you choose (overlapping, interlocking or baseball), one fundamental is that the hands must be touching each other. They should be joined as one unit. They should feel like they are melted together.
• Jack Nicklaus in My Golden Lessons: ‘The hands should work as a single unit. They should be as close together as you can comfortably get them.’

Without even knowing it, many golfers alter the positions of their hands mid-swing, probably in the mistaken belief it will somehow help them generate greater power. But, by doing so, they prevent the hands from working together as the single unit advocated by Hogan et al. Hitting the ball flush now becomes an unlikely prospect. Power and control over the direction and trajectory of the shot, are inevitably lost.

To become a more consistent golfer, you need the grip that you adopt at address to remain in place throughout the entire swing. It needs to be a SINGLE UNIT from start to finish. When setting up to the ball, you don’t grip the club incorrectly hoping to make the necessary alterations somewhere in the transition from backswing to downswing. You begin with a sound grip. And you should try to maintain that grip all the way to the finish. This is where the Glove Connection comes in. The guide lines on the palm-side of the gloves show you where the club should be positioned (definitely more in the fingers than the palms), while the strip of Velcro enables you to maintain the connection between your hands all the way from address to impact and thus develop a swing in which the hands work as a SINGLE UNIT.