Is The Way Of Gripping Your Putter Totally Incorrect?

The most frequent problem encountered by golf students is that when they grip the putter, it’s as if they grip the rest of the clubs in their bag, with the use of overlapping grip or an interlocking grip. These golf students are really clueless on how essential is the manner by which they hold the putter in different ways towards best results.

The Reverse Overlap Grip

If you want to make use of the best grip when it comes to making your putt shots, you should learn the “reverse overlap grip”. This is the style commonly used by amateurs as well as Tour professionals. Using this kind of grip is important to keep the putterface perfectly square to the arc of your stroke. In this article, you will see the 4 easy steps of using overlap grip.

Step 1: Get your putter and hold it in an upside down position in which the clubface is directed towards the sky, and using both hands the grip must placed in front of your face, a sort of holding a baseball bat just before a swing is done.

By doing such, you will easily find out the right manner of set up for the reverse overlap grip. If you try to find it by gripping the putter in a normal way, closer to the ground, it may seem so difficult for your hands to do the adjustment.

Step 2: This time, you must take your left hand and place it on the putter handle. The thumb must be pointed down the shaft. Your index finger should also be kept off at this stage.

Step 3: After doing the 2nd step, the next thing you do is to get the fleshy part of your right hand and place it on the flat portion of your grip, thumbs directed down. When you have followed the directions well at this point, you must find your fingers wrapped in a neat manner around the handle of your putter- except for your left index finger.

Step 4: The last of these steps is to take your right hand and slide it down the shaft until such time that the left thumbnail is covered up already. Your left and right thumbs must be pointed down the shaft and your left index finger will be left overlapping your right hand fingers.

When you are already used to doing this, you will just be surprised to find massive improvements on your shots. And of course, the reason behind holding the putter this way is that your standard grips (overlapping and interlocking) will result to undesirable rotation of the clubface.