Tiger Woods might be a 15-time major champion and one of the biggest names in golf but everyone has to start somewhere when it comes to even holding a golf club.

Woods is one of the most successful sportsmen of all time but everyone who follows golf knows that his father, Earl Woods, played a crucial role in his coaching.

With Woods blazing a trail right from his early 20s, it was clear he’d had a fine upbringing in terms of how to swing a golf club.

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However, while over the years he went with big name coaches like Butch Harmon and more, it was some of the early teachings from his father that stuck.

Indeed, when it came to simply gripping the golf club, Woods has explained previously just what his Dad taught him, and why he stuck with it.

Tiger Woods’ tip for gripping the golf club properly

Tiger Woods has hit some of the greatest golf shots we’ve ever seen.

However, it’s sometimes easy to overlook the simple facets that go into making Woods one of the best to ever do it.

That goes right down to what many would regard as the simple elements of the golf swing, including the grip.

Woods, though, has emphasised the importance of the grip and crucially, just why his Dad’s advice was so important.

“How I learned how to grip the club? So my Dad taught me that my index finger and my thumb, that ‘V’ that it has, should always point to my right shoulder,” Woods explains.

“And then my right hand and thumb and index finger should point to the same area. So that’s why my curve is pretty neutral, like that. Now, when I was younger, I kind of fought against my Dad a little bit and put a little ‘harley’ grip on it to hit it further. But I also got pretty wild…so I went back to my Dad’s teachings.”

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How to practice putting like Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods has given out plenty of golf tips over the years and as he approaches 50, it will be interesting to see if he leans into this even more.

With Woods out injured once again, the coaching and feedback element of the game might well appeal more than ever to him.

Indeed, as well as sharing how to grip the club properly, Woods has also shared a past putting drill that amateurs can try.

Explaining a drill he’d practice over and over, Woods revealed just what went into that practice.

“I do it incessantly before every round, I do it at home, I do it everywhere. I always do the tee drill, and that’s just a simple little thing of having two tees, they basically lean up against the putter and it’s just to make sure I hit the putt solid. It’s a very simple drill, I go about four feet from the hole and I put it right off the toe and right off the heel of the putter. As you can see from the back camera here, if I rest the putter up against the heel tee, there’s really not a lot of room on the toe. So it ensures I have to hit the ball flush. And I have to be able to make sure that I present the club face square every single time,” he said.

“How I get there, it doesn’t ensure that. I can still take it back way inside, I can take it way outside. But in order to get through the tees, I have to swing it where I hit the ball right in the middle of the face. And I like starting with my right hand. And I’ll probably hit 20 to 30 of these just with my right hand, try and get a feel for it. I like feeling the face rotate, I like feeling my right hand hit. I like feeling load in my stroke going back, release coming through. When I then do enough of those when I feel comfortable, then I’ll put my left hand on and simulate the same feel with both hands. And I’ll bounce back between right handed and both hands. And I’ll do this for a while. As a kid, I used to spend hours doing this.

“What I realised is if you spend too much time doing this, you lose your lag putting feel. So this is just the beginning part of my practice session when I putt. Hit a lot of these, and then immediately I’ll hit a couple of six, seven footers and then I’ll hit nothing for lag putts for a little bit.”

So, with a bit of help on the grip and a little bit of putting advice, some of us at home can start to be just a bit more like Tiger.