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My husband and I worked on my golf swing last week.  He filmed me and it helped a lot seeing what I was doing, as opposed to "feeling" it.  I'm very new at the game.  He had me holding the club in my fingers instead of the palm of my hands, and I did better - but by the end of hitting balls, my thumb was in agony.  You know how it hurts to press on your finger joints?  Well, my right thumb had been taking the brunt of it and I thought I had a blister.  I didn't, it eventually stopped hurting.

good for you Bluehour!!   Hope this can work for others too..... Good suggestion Blue.  We're golfing tomorrow and I'll give it a try.  My problem is my right wrist but I'll take any suggestions.  LindyLin, have you tried a wrist support?  I have one for each (jeez, I would really be covered with a glove on each hand and wrist supports) but since the MTX kicked in, my wrist is way better and I haven't used them.  I did put an ace bandage on my wrist and golfed that way once, it seemed to help. I'm in my 50's but have a 13 year old....... will have to wait a little longer!! ;)The extra glove is a great idea Bluehour.  I most certainly will try this if I should need to.  Also, way to go to DH for videoing your swing because what we think we are doing and what we are acutually doing are usually two different things.  The video is a great teaching tool.  Good luck tomorrow.  We are having a shotgun start at 8 am in the morning which is good as our temperature is up to or over 100 d again.