In this video, PGA Professional Katie Dawkins talks through what a classic, reverse overlap putting grip looks like and how it will help you hole more putts!
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00:02 - Hi, I'm Katie Dawkins.
00:05 I'm an advanced PGA professional,
00:06 and I'm here at West Hill Golf Club
00:09 to talk to you about possibly changing your putting grip.
00:13 And I'm gonna talk to you today
00:14 about the reverse overlap grip.
00:16 So how do you hold your putter grip?
00:19 A lot of people would look down and go,
00:20 "What do you mean?
00:21 "How do I grip my putter?
00:22 "I grip it the same way I'd normally grip my clubs,
00:25 "by interlocking or overlapping."
00:27 Now, that grip is designed to help you
00:29 to achieve a bit of whip through the ball,
00:31 so give you a bit of a handsy action in the golf swing.
00:34 In putting, we don't want that.
00:35 So it's a really good idea to maybe look at changing this.
00:39 A solid option would be the reverse overlap grip.
00:43 And all we're doing here is we're taking the palms
00:45 from working together with the main swing,
00:47 where we would achieve a bit of a flick of the wrists,
00:50 to turning them away from each other,
00:52 putting the club more into the palm,
00:54 and sitting very softly,
00:56 this index finger of the top hand over my cuticles.
00:59 I tend to call this my cuticle grip when I'm coaching.
01:02 It gives a lovely soft hold on the putter.
01:05 I'm in control, but I can now rock from the shoulders
01:08 back and through, the nice fluid action,
01:11 rather than giving it a bang.
01:13 So what we achieve by taking the hands out of the equation
01:16 and going hands-free, is a nice, smooth stroke.
01:20 That'll really help us with distance control,
01:22 it'll help us keep the club face square,
01:24 and hold more putts, ultimately,
01:26 and who doesn't want to hold more putts?
01:28 What you want to make sure of with this grip,
01:30 is that there's still no squeeze in it.
01:32 You're not squeezing the putter for dear life.
01:35 You're letting that putter rest,
01:36 and then rocking from the shoulders in a nice, smooth action.
01:41 You're then determining how far the putt goes
01:43 by how much back and through you give it.
01:46 So the reverse overlap grip is gonna really make
01:48 those longer putts much easier to control distance-wise.
01:51 You'll find it smoothly rolls on the green,
01:54 rather than jumping and skidding,
01:55 which is what tends to happen when we give it a hit.
01:57 It's worth remembering as well,
01:58 that this grip might not be for you.
02:01 Just because your best golfing pal has started using it,
02:04 doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna work for you.
02:06 So you need to give it a little bit of time,
02:08 get used to it, but also,
02:11 if your putting is really, really good, don't change it.
02:14 Stick with it, and take confidence in the fact
02:17 that you're already taking the winnings
02:19 from your playing partners.
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