Hi Guru,

I’m at the point with my game where I can confidently hit all my drives for good distance and with a consistent fade; however, I can only do that without wearing a glove on my left hand. Whenever I put on a glove, I hook my tee shots. It’s worse with the driver but I can bear the slightly left of line result with the hybrids and the irons. Why would wearing a glove cause this?

You are like me, you hit your shots by feel. It’s something I’ve always done. When I was a kid I asked my Pro whether I should wear a glove. Rather than make a sale, he told me the truth. I shouldn’t wear a glove until I was around 21 then my feel would be set and I wouldn’t need to develop it any more. At 21 my hands would have stopped growing, the skin is adult and if I haven’t got the feel I need by then well, try a glove and see if it helps.

I have never worn a glove, I lose distance and accuracy, I can’t feel my game when I wear a glove.

I turned 49 the other day…

I have thought about trying a fingerless glove…. the one thing I don’t like is the difficulty removing them.

Gloves do take a level of touch sense out of the equation. It is why they are made of thin material (and there was you lot thinking it was a built in redundancy to sell more) so you can still feel the grip.

If you cannot feel as well you will tighten up and we all know that is not good for a shot.

Ahhhh, tighten up, that would explain the loss of distance and accuracy when I try a glove… thanks Guru, it all makes sense!

I started taking my glove off when I was less than 120 M from the green and found that I had better touch, I then progressed to only using it with my Driver don’t know why.
Now I dont wear a glove at all and after thinking about it all the gloves I tries were either 2 tight or to big, my skin is just right!
Certainly get a better feel for the shot I think.