Changing Grip to Change Shot Shapes?

Hack It Out Golf

Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner

Golf, Education, Sports

4.6 • 488 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Today, a listener question: is changing grip a good way to change a shot shape on a particular shot? Mark brings this topic to Lou and Greg, and they discuss whether they themselves would use differing grips on the course to hit specific shots. From there, there's a bit of a deep dive into the various ways (and there are many) that grip changes can change ball flight—with maybe a dash of Project Lou here as well. Where to find us: Mark Crossfield's weekly newsletter: https://www.crossfieldgolf.com/subscribe Mark Crossfield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/4golfonline Mark Crossfield on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/4golfonline Lou Stagner's weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.loustagnergolf.com/subscribe Lou Stagner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouStagner Greg Chalmers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregChalmersPGA The Hack It Out Golf Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HackItOutGolf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Listener question time from Ken McCormack guys.
0:03.8	We've got an interesting question.
0:05.3	Hey Mark,
0:05.9	been following you on YouTube since 2013.
0:08.3	So there's a long time follow.
0:09.3	A question for you.
0:10.7	I seem to be able to manipulate the ball easier by adjusting my grip.
0:14.8	So weaker or stronger.
0:16.8	As compared to manipulating swing path,
0:19.2	are the pros and cons to either method is what he's basically asking?
0:24.7	It doesn't really matter.
0:26.1	Is it more about just contact?
0:27.7	You know, does it matter which way around you do it or should he just be focusing kind of if it's about contact?
0:32.3	Would be funny to listen to you and Lou and Greg talk about these things.
0:36.2	Or maybe you and Greg would just chirp at
0:39.1	Lou about his swing. Ha-ha, either way, many. Thanks, man. Do we chirp at Lou? Does everyone
0:45.6	seems to think we just hammering at Lou? Do we hammering at heart? First of all, no one's
0:50.8	been following you since 2013. Let's just get that out of the way.
0:55.0	This is absolutely your father right now.
0:57.7	This is your father's burner account.
1:00.0	He wouldn't have known what the internet was in 2013, not alone following anyone.
1:05.4	It's an interesting question.
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