WATCH: How to find the right grip pressure for your swing
Here’s a follow-up on last week’s video on grip pressure to clear up a few things and give you more clarity on how grip pressure influences the golf swing!
Time to jump into Aaron Rai’s WITB from his win at the 2026 PGA Championship. Aaron is an equipment free agent but pretty much has two brands, TaylorMade and Titleist, in the bag. We get to see clubs and shafts from 2018 up to current products and even some custom stuff!
Driver: TaylorMade M6 (9 degrees)
Shaft: Aldilda Synergy Blue 70 TX
3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (15 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 8 X
5-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (18 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Blue 8 X
Hybrid: Titleist GT2 (24 degrees, D1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei CK Pro White Hybrid 90 TX
Irons: TaylorMade P7TW (5-9)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold S300
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM9 (46-10F @44, 48-10F @49), SM11 (54-12D), WedgeWorks (60-04L)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S300
Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour V
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Alistair Cameron is on site and inside the ropes for the second major of 2026. This week’s episode of ITR features a heavy dose of WITBs (Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed) and custom PGA Championship gear, as well as Cobra Golf’s Ben Schomin talking Rickie Fowler’s driver switch and Odyssey’s Cody Hale.
On a related note, you can check out all our photos from Aronimink here.
Kristoffer Reitan just won his first PGA Tour event at the 2026 Truist Championship. He is a Ping staff member and has a complete set of clubs from the brand. He did make a late driver switch this weekend that helped propel him to victory.
Driver: Ping G440 Max (9 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 60 TX
3-wood: Ping G440 Max (15 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 80 TX
7-wood: Ping G440 Max (21 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Black 85 TX
Irons: Ping Blueprint S (4-9)
Shafts: KBS Tour X
Wedges: Ping S259
46-S
Shaft KBS Tour X
50-S
54-S
58-S
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400
Putter: Ping PLD Custom Ally Blue H (white finish)
Grips: Golf Pride MCC Midsize
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
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ogo
May 29, 2018 at 12:52 pm
* * * crickets * * * ……….(as usual)
ogo
May 27, 2018 at 3:10 pm
I did it!!! I squeezed more and it happened!!! It’s magic I tell you… it’s magic!!!
steve
May 26, 2018 at 2:29 am
Shawn… in your 2013 video – PREDICT PERFECT CONTACT EVERY TIME!… you mention grip pressure strength numbers from 1:50 to 2:05 minute marks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDo1Lg-O4H8
Could you do a Part 3 – Grip Pressures that quantifies grip pressures throughout the swing as you briefly did in this video? Thanks.
steve
May 25, 2018 at 10:38 pm
SHAWN… YOUR ‘TIGHT GRIP’ ADVICE SEEMS TO WORK FOR SOME GOLFERS… NOW TELL US WHY IT WORKS BECAUSE IT’S NOT ENOUGH TO JUST SAY TRY IT BECAUSE IT WORKS FOR ME. THAT’S INADEQUATE AND TOTALLY UNPROFESSIONAL!
Tom
May 25, 2018 at 7:31 pm
I don’t understand why the commenters seem to analyze Mr Clement’s comments in their heads rather than going out on the range and seeing if what he says works. For me it seems to work. I’ve always thought you held the club at address as lightly, softly, as possible. That grip pressure would increase to an appropriate level by impact. My mind is changing on this. I am hitting the ball better with more hand pressure. Has anyone responding to Mr Clement’s comments actually tried what he suggests?
steve
May 25, 2018 at 10:25 pm
Fair enough, you’ve done something with your hands that seems to work for you. However, just squeezing the club handle is not valid instruction nor objective advice. Go ahead and try something and if it works for you great, but it’s not clear advice. It’s just “try it and you’ll like it” because it works for me! That’s plain stupid.
steve
May 25, 2018 at 5:33 pm
Shawn replies to questions on his youtube channel but he shuns legitimate questions that challenge the specifics of his grip pressure advice. GolfWRX should not give Clements a platform on this website unless he responds to legitimate questions here.
Boyo
May 25, 2018 at 12:35 pm
Seems like an instinctual thing to me….
ogo
May 25, 2018 at 12:48 pm
“..instinctive..”? How can you teach instinct which is an innate behavior?
Behavior is instinctive if it is performed without being based upon prior experience, that is, in the absence of learning, and is therefore an expression of innate natural abilities. You either got it or you don’t!
ogo
May 24, 2018 at 11:11 pm
youtube video not properly embedded by WRX staff… wonder why?
bryce
May 27, 2018 at 7:53 pm
Dang moderators reduce the number of characters allowed in comments and if you exceed that it goes to moderation. Wotta buncha wooses….
steve
May 24, 2018 at 4:03 pm
Shawn: — “…secure grip…” …. for a variety of swings and shots. Okay, but do you apply a strong grip pressure at address and hold it through the BS and DS… or do you apply various grip pressures as a reflex in response to the intensity of the kinetic chain flow of energy in the swing? Thanks.
steve
May 24, 2018 at 4:08 pm
Furthermore… the loading between the hands varies throughout the swing as it reverses several times before impact. The hands are subject to different leverages and grip pressure alternates in response. Are you advocating tight axial finger squeezing throughout regardless of changes in the BS and DS loadings? Thanks.
steve
May 24, 2018 at 4:12 pm
Also, does hand pressure differ between the hands or is it consistently equal throughout the swing? Both hands at “10”, or top hand at “10” and lower hand at say “7”? Or does the hand pressures fluctuate at different stages of the swing? Thanks.