Check Your Calluses
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Examine where you are getting calluses on your hands to diagnose your golf swing. Calluses in the wrong places can be an indication of a poor grip or an incorrect swing while calluses in the right places can be confirmation of your mechanics.
If you are holding the club correctly and whipping the club through with your right hand, you will start to form calluses on your left hand at the base of your pinkie, ring and middle finger. These areas are where your left hand comes in contact with the club.
On your right hand, you may start forming a callus on the outside of your ring finger where your hands interlock or overlap in your grip.
If you start to get calluses in other places or blisters on your hand, that means you are incorrectly holding the club or gripping it too tight. When you grip the club properly and swing correctly you should be able to play everyday without gloves and never get a blister.
Some common places to form calluses and blisters from a poor grip are on the pointer finger and thumb of both hands.
So next time you are out on the course, check where the club is toughening up your hands. Your hands can be a good indication of how good your grip is and how well you swing the club.
| bradleel | Commented On: Apr 12, 2011 @ 1:20PM |
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I do have calluses on the base of those fingers. i also have a couple of calluses located straight down the tendon of my left ring finger, just above my palm. this also looks a little like a tendon problem, not sure. any idea what causes that?
| PJ Roux | Commented On: Aug 10, 2011 @ 9:43AM |
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I have a callus forming on my right wrist..... Yes you read correctly. Worked out that during release it chaffs against my glove, also only seems to happen in winter when my skin is dry. I also happen to be a scratch golfer whom has no short game, so it's not technically correct for you to state that they form due to inproper swing movements. There are freaks of nature like me to prove that theory incorrect. :)
| Trav | Commented On: Dec 26, 2011 @ 2:38AM |
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I have those calluses on the bade of those same finger on the left hand, no where else on the left. However, I use an overlap grip and get calluses on the base of my rand hand ring finger. Also between the index and middle finger there's a callous there on that peice of loose skin...does this indicate a bad grip??? I currently play off 8 and I'm 14, so it's just tweaking little things with my grip and swing. Because around the greens I'm pretty much there already, consistently having less than 30 putts a round, just long game lets me down.
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