Losing my grip

@twcrofford - Excellent replies and suggestions from @Nocona Colt Abernathy and @GolfLivesMatter. The Best Contact Drill should help you with ingraining a good impact condition. My only other thought is whether your grips are the proper size for your hands.

As for interlocking, no issues with that as long as the key fundamental elements of the grip are adhered to.

@Tom Saguto

Thanks for the timely response. As I think through the swing thoughts / demons in my head, I want try to exorcise some and hopefully avoid replacing them with others. I’m thinking of Hogan‘s two plane swing, one in the backswing and one angled in to out on the downswing. I think I’ve tried to keep the club head on the second plane after impact. In order to do that one almost has to “flip” the club To push it outside, along the plane. As I look at your system, and as I try to fix my flip, I think I see that the club and hands have to come back inside the flight line soon after ground contact, then going to about the same line after the ball that they were in on the backswing. A new thought for a guy who memorized “5 Lessons”. I‘ll continue to work on it.

@twcrofford Mr. Hogan delivered phenomenal and timeless instructional value, right?! But there are just so many misconceptions about Hogan’s swing out there - particularly within the realm of misunderstood or misapplied instruction - that have sadly relegated generations of golfers to the vast abyss of chronic frustration. I do my best to clear these up one by one and put an end to this madness by taking what Mr. Hogan conveys in the “Five Lessons” book as his "feels", applying it to the reality of what he actually did in his swing, and translating it into something we all can learn well from. Because if we can get Hogan right, there are tremendously effective swing keys to be garnered.

So, for example, Mr. Hogan conveyed that outwardly angled plane in the book, but if you watch him from down the line it sure looks a lot like a one-plane swing, and the club exits immediately back to the inside post-impact. In other words, his swing is a tilted circle with a constant center from setup through impact. Sound familiar?...😎

Mr. Hogan was not "textbook" Stack & Tilt because he had that brief shift in pressure to his rear leg before getting into his front side at the top of his backswing. But while I do not necessarily advocate or teach any shift into the trail side, the majority of his swing contains so many great elements which happen to fit perfectly within the realm of S&T. Did Mr. Hogan tilt, turn, and extend while maintaining his swing center? Yes. Did his lead arm match his tilted shoulder plane at the top of the backswing, signifying no independent lifting of the arms? Yes. Did he take his hands in deep to access the tremendous power source known as "angular momentum"? Yes. Aside from that temporary shift of pressure into his trail side at the start of his swing, was his weight otherwise forward throughout as evidenced by his bending front leg and straightening trail leg? Yes. Did his motion facilitate an unrestricted 45 degrees of tilted hip turn to promote another 45 degrees of effortless tilted shoulder turn (for a full 90 degrees)? Yes. So, the bottom line is that this is what Mr. Hogan did, and perhaps coincidently (though probably not), these same swing elements are shared with a swing system built upon data from the game's best ball strikers and which goes by the name of "Stack and Tilt"...... (Shhhh.....heads in the "conventional" golf swing world will explode if you even utter such blasphemies under your breath,,,,😆)

@twcrofford - Try taking an alignment stick or a driveway marker. They‘re like 3 bucks at Home Depot and hold it in your grip extending it past your left side and make some swings. You’ll find you can’t flip or the stick will hit your body.

It will feel awkward at first, but remember sometimes you have to make an over correction to train the correct feeling.