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By Rick Bradshaw Your only connection to the golf club is your hand and fingers. The responsibility of your hands is to hold the club and transmit speed to the club head. Notice I used the word "transmit" and NOT "create." Your body rotation on the back swing and downswing generates energy and your hands must remain relaxed so this energy can be transmitted through them to the club head. Follow these rules: The hands should hang naturally when they grip the club. The reason is that this is the way they will be pulled straight when the force of the club head swings into the ball. A finger control type grip is more effective for transmitting speed, especially in the right hand. If you were to pick up a baseball and throw it, you immediately would put it in the fingers. It's the same principal in swinging the golf club. Think FIRM grip. Not tight! Not loose! But firm to hold. This will insure a natural hanging of the wrists throughout the swing. If you grip too tight, your wrists become inflexible; too loose, and you lose connection and control. Ernest Jones, a great British Teacher, who earned a reputation for teaching the feel of the club head, was possibly the best "hands" teacher of all time. He wrote a book in 1937 called "Swinging Into Golf" and in 1952 he revised it into "Swinging the Club head." Ernest much preferred the word "hold" to "Grip." In these books he states, "The word grip connotes a hold with viselike tensity which is a decided handicap which destroys your ability to wield the club. However, because of its wide use I shall have to use the word grip at times." Learn to hold the golf club, do not grip it tight, and let your hands hang at their natural state when developing your grip. Improvement will be imminent. Can You Really Get Better at Golf? Is The Golf Swing Centrifugal or Centripetal? Is Your Golf Swing Lost in Space? P.O.W.E.R. Is your Golf Swing Generator Fully Charged? Distance by Resistance Get A Grip on Your Golf Game The Worst Words in Golf … Guide and Steer 10 ways to look like a player … when you're not! 10 ways to tell you're not a "real golfer" Do You Feel Down Or Up In Golf?