To increase your chances of making consistently good golf swings, you must create great setup positions.  Because it takes almost no talent or physical ability to do, a little work during the winter months will have you ready for great progress once the season starts in earnest.  Ball position, posture, grip, alignment, and stance make up the positions we will talk about as the weeks go on.  The most important is arguably grip.  Almost no one grips the club well.  To start, place the grip in your left hand (for righties) where your pinky meets your palm and between the middle knuckle of your index finger and where that finger meets your palm.  This places the clubs in your fingers properly.  Now hold your hand in front of you and turn your hand so that you can see 2 and a half knuckles on your left hand when the clubface is square.  When you add your right hand, you can use an overlap or interlock grip unless you have small hands and then I recommend the interlock like Jack and Tiger use.  Your right palm should be parallel to the clubface to promote a square face at impact.  Now the hard part:  Start with your grip pressure about a 5-6 on your left (firmest pressure with the pinky, ring and middle fingers) and a 4-5 on your right and KEEP YOUR GRIP PRESSURE THE SAME UNTIL YOUR FOLLOW THROUGH POSE POSITION.  This tends to be especially difficult to do with the right hand if you are right hand dominant.  Practice hitting irons off of a tee where you focus just on keeping your grip pressure the same.  It's harder than it seems.  Good luck and good playing!!!     

Doug Curtiss, PGA
Director of Instruction