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Gripping Your Putter

11:32 am May 20, 2009

Most golf students who have trouble putting all have one thing in
common. That is, they tend to grip the putter in the exact same
manner that they grip the other clubs in their bag: using an
overlapping grip or an interlocking grip.

These students have no idea just how important it is to hold the
putter differently for the best results.

A. The Reverse Overlap Grip
As stated above, there are all sorts of ways pros grip their clubs. But
let’s try discussing just one that has served a lot of people well in the
past as far as putting goes.

To optimize your putting, let’s try learning the “reverse overlap grip”
which is a favorite with advanced amateur golfers & Tour
professionals.

This type of grip will help keep the putterface perfectly square to the
ark of your stroke.

The face will also travel right down through the target line. Here is a
very simple 4 step guide to using a reverse overlap grip.

Step 1: Take your putter with both hands and hold it upside down so
that the clubface is pointing towards the sky. The grip should be
right in front of your face, kind of like holding a baseball bat before
a swing.

(Holding the club this way will help you learn the proper set up for
the reverse overlap grip. If you try to find it by gripping the putter in
its normal fashion, close to the ground, it may be too difficult to
adjust your hands to.)

Step 2: Now take your left hand and place it on the putter handle.
Your thumb should be pointing down the shaft and your index finger
should be kept off it for now.

Step 3: The next step is to take the fleshy part of your right hand and
put it on the flat part of the grip.

The thumbs should be pointing down. So far, if you have correctly
followed these instructions, all of your fingers should be neatly
wrapped around the handle of your putter. All except for your left
index finger.

Step 4: Finally, take your right hand and slide it down the shaft
until just your left thumbnail is covered up. Both of your thumbs
should be pointing straight down the shaft, and your left index finger
will overlap the fingers of your right hand.

Once you get used to putting with this grip, you should see an
immediate improvement in your shots. It is important to hold the
putter like this is because your standard grip (overlapping and
interlocking) will cause unwanted rotation of the clubface.
This is obviously disastrous when you need a dead straight putt.

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