Forearms and hands
Having strong hands and arms allows you to secure the club with less effort. This in turn keeps the wrists flexible.
Hogan showing us his grip.
When you have developed a good grip you can start focusing on increasing grip strength. For the left hand you want to be training the last three fingers (pinky, ring finger and middle finger) and for the right hand the ring and middle fingers.
Hogan explaining the grip and the pressure points.
Exercises
There are a couple of ways to train these muscles. You can use a grip strengthening device or a small rubber ball, and squeezing the steering wheel whilst driving to work will work too. Squeeze, hold it for 10 seconds and repeat. Don’t forget to switch hands after a while. Success guaranteed…
Strength should be more in the fingers than the hands as a whole and for that reason there are exercises that may yield better results than those shown. One is to open a single sheet of newspaper on a flat table, place your hand flat on the center of the sheet and using fingers only without lifting the hand, gather the entire sheet into the hand. Do about ten sheets with each hand. Another way to develop finger strength is to get into push-up position supported by fingers alone instead of the palms of the hands. Simply supporting yourself will yield results and as strength improves, do push-ups on your fingertips. When you are warming up to play, use a wedge at arm's length one hand at a time and draw 'figure eights' in the air, reversing the direction. As your strength increases, you can use a driver with the headcover on to do this exercise.
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