GOLF · TRAINING
By the Wrist Bro Golf Desk · 6 min read
A training grip slides onto a normal club and puts your hands in one place.
The number one player in the world checks his hands before he hits a single ball. Here is why your slice starts about four inches from the club face, and what actually fixes it.
The swing felt good. The ball still went right.
Someone told you “it’s your grip” and you nodded like you knew what to change.
You shuffle your hands two or three times before the grip feels right.
You strike it well on the range and lose it on the first tee.
You paid for a lesson that stopped working after two weeks.
You own a training aid that now lives in the garage.
If you nodded at three or more, keep reading. The fix is much smaller than you think.
Here is the part nobody says out loud. The ball does not care how pretty your swing is. It cares where the club face is pointing at the moment it hits the ball.
You already believe this, because you watch it happen on the green. Leave the face open by a hair on a three-foot putt and you miss. Nobody blames their stroke for that. They blame the face.
Now take that same small error and hit it two hundred and fifty yards instead of three feet. It does not stay small. It ends up in the trees.
And your hands are what set that face. They are the only part of your body that touches the club. Everything you do has to travel through them to reach the ball. So when your hands sit a little off, the face sits a little open, and the ball leaves to the right before you have done anything else wrong.
You have been rebuilding the whole swing. The fault is four inches from the club face.
A face that is open by two degrees at impact is enough to turn a good swing into a bad shot. That is a mistake too small to see, in the one place you are not looking.
The club face points where your hands tell it to point.
Scottie Scheffler is the number one golfer on the planet. He uses a molded training grip in every practice session and every warm-up. He even keeps a practice club fitted with one, so his hands land the same way every time.
His reason is one short sentence. He calls the grip “your only connection to the club head.” That is it. Everything else you do is guesswork until that part is right.
To be straight with you: he is not using ours, and he has not endorsed anything on this page. He is doing something simple that works, and it is the same idea we sell. Put your hands in the same place, every time.
Ben Hogan got there first. In Five Lessons, the most respected golf book ever written, the grip is chapter one. His advice was to spend thirty minutes a day on the grip alone, before anything else.
The players who need it least are the ones who practice it most.
So if you have been thinking training aids are for hackers, sit with that for a second. The best player alive checks his hands before he hits a single ball.
Reported by Golf Monthly, Today’s Golfer and golf.com. Scottie Scheffler uses a molded training grip. He does not use or endorse Wrist Bro.
This is the one that should bother you, and it comes from Scheffler himself. He watches his grip because when his body starts to feel different over the ball, his grip is the first thing that moves to keep up.
He does not decide to change it. It just changes. And he only knows because he checks.
If the best player alive cannot trust his hands to stay put, yours are not staying put either.
Your hands do the same thing. A cold morning, a sore back, a driver instead of a wedge, or a tee shot with people watching. Your hands quietly shift to deal with it. Then you spend the rest of the round trying to fix a swing that was never broken.
This is why feel lies to you. What feels normal is simply what you did last time. Hold the club slightly wrong for ten years and wrong feels right, while right feels strange and uncomfortable.
You need something outside your own hands to tell you the truth. That is all this is. A reference point that does not have an opinion and does not get tired.
Be honest about why the last training aid failed. It was not that it did not work. It wanted twenty minutes, an app, a drill and a mirror, and you were never going to give it all four.
This one asks for about a minute. It slides onto the club like a key that only fits one way. Your hand goes where it goes. Then you hit your normal bucket of balls, exactly the way you always do.
No app to open.
No drill to remember.
No extra time at the range.
No charger and no batteries.
The best habit is the one you do not have to think about.
That is the whole trick. You are not adding practice to your week. You are making the practice you already do count for something. And it is light enough that it just lives in your bag.
Under Rule 4.3 of the Rules of Golf, you are not allowed to use a grip trainer during a competition round. The first time costs you two shots. The second time you are disqualified.
Read that again. The people who write the rules of golf looked at a training grip and decided it helps you enough to be unfair.
Golf’s rule makers looked at a training grip and called it an advantage.
You can still carry it in your bag. You can use it on the range and in a social round with your buddies as much as you like. You just cannot use it when somebody is counting your score.
And by then you should not need it. The point was never to lean on it forever. The point is that one day the correct grip stops feeling strange and starts feeling like yours.
Picture the first tee next Saturday. Same group, same nerves. You take your grip without thinking about it, because your hands already know where to go. The ball starts down the middle and stays there. Nobody says a word, because there is nothing to say.
Rules of Golf, Rule 4.3 (Use of Equipment). Training aids may not be used to make a stroke or practice swing during a round.
| What golfers try | What it gives you | What it misses |
|---|---|---|
| A lesson | A pro tells you exactly what is wrong | It fades in a two weeks, because nothing checks your hands between lessons |
| A new driver | More forgiveness when you miss the middle | It still points wherever your hands point it |
| Swing videos online | Free, and there are thousands | Ten teachers, ten answers, and none of them watching your hands |
| Gripping it tighter | It feels like control | Tight hands slow the club down and stop your wrists working |
| New grips fitted | Fresh, tacky and nice to hold | A better surface to hold the club wrongly |
| A training grip | Your hands land in one place, on every club, every swing | You cannot use it when somebody is counting your score |
None of this is a waste of money. A lesson is worth having. But a lesson tells you what to do, and this makes sure you are still doing it on Saturday.
Nobody plays this game because it is cheap. Look at what you already hand over without blinking.
One lesson: $75 to $150, and it is over in an hour.
A new driver: $500 and up.
A Saturday round: $60 before you buy a drink.
A set of grips fitted: over $100.
Gloves and balls you have lost: more than you want to add up.
This is $34.99. Once. It does not need charging, it never runs out, and it does not care how old your clubs are.
You will spend more than this on balls you lose this season.
Want one on the driver, one on the irons and one on the wedges? Pay for two and the third one is free, which works out at $23 each, and you never have to move it between clubs. Scheffler solves that same problem by carrying an entire extra club.
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“Has really helped my confidence. I know I have a good grip now. Can focus on other areas of my game too. Love it”
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Comments (4)
Marcus E. says: ✓ Verified buyer
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My handicap has genuinely dropped about 2 shots this month. Golf so much more enjoyable knowing I'm gripping the club right. Will order 2 more definitely
Jordan T. says: ✓ Verified buyer
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Great way to train muscle memory. I like to grip the Wrist Bro even at home in living room. It has helped a lot. Hitting the ball more consistently
Joel H. says: ✓ Verified buyer
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Gives instant feedback. Great for practice.
Nathan B. says: ✓ Verified buyer
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Staple in my practice now.
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Most aids die because they ask for time you do not have. This one takes about a minute. It slides on, you hit your normal balls, and it lives in your bag between sessions.
The number one player in the world checks his grip before every session, because hands drift without telling you. Twenty years of playing is twenty years of a habit that may or may not be the right one.
On the range and in a social round, yes. In competition, no. Rule 4.3 of the Rules of Golf does not allow training aids during a tournament round. You can still carry it in your bag.
It is a reference point, not a crutch. You use it until the correct grip feels normal, then you take that grip to the first tee without it.
It fits all standard-size golf grips, and plenty of golfers tell us it fits oversize grips too. It does not fit jumbo grips.
Yes. Left and right handed both, and you choose which one you want for each trainer in your order. Buying a multipack for the family? You can mix them.
If your club has an alignment mark, match the arrow on the trainer to it. If it does not, rest the club face flat on the ground and center the arrow with the middle of the shaft.
Send it back within 90 days of delivery on your first order and we will refund you. Full terms are on our refund policy page.
90-Day First-Order Guarantee
Train with it for a full season of range sessions. If your grip does not feel more repeatable, send it back within 90 days of delivery for a refund. Applies to your first order.
Golf Monthly: the training aid Scottie Scheffler uses in every practice and warm-up
Today’s Golfer: the simple training aid the world No.1 swears by
golf.com: Scheffler on the molded training grip
USGA: Rule 4 — The Player’s Equipment (Rule 4.3, use of equipment)
Ben Hogan, Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf (the grip, chapter one)
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