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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00:00I am Katie Dawkins, I'm an advanced PGA professional and I'm here at West Hill
00:08Golf Club to talk to you about possibly changing your putting grip and I'm going
00:13to talk to you today about the reverse overlap grip. So how do you hold your
00:18putter grip? A lot of people would look down and go what do you mean how do I
00:21grip my putter? I grip it the same way I'd normally grip my clubs by
00:25interlocking or overlapping. Now that grip is designed to help you to achieve
00:30a bit of whip through the ball so give you a bit of a handy action in the golf
00:33swing. In putting we don't want that so it's a really good idea to maybe look at
00:38changing this. A solid option would be the reverse overlap grip and all we're
00:44doing here is we're taking the palms from working together with the main
00:47swing where we would achieve a bit of a flick of the wrists to turning them away
00:51from each other, putting the club more into the palm and sitting very softly
00:55this this index finger of the top hand over my cuticles. I tend to call this my
01:00cuticle grip when I'm coaching. It gives a lovely soft hold on the putter, I'm in
01:05control but I can now rock from the shoulders back and through the nice
01:10fluid action rather than giving it a bang. So what we achieve by taking the
01:14hands out of the equation and going hands-free is a nice smooth stroke. That
01:20will really help us with distance control, it'll help us keep the club face
01:23square and hold more putts ultimately and who doesn't want to hold more putts.
01:27What you want to make sure of with this grip is that there's still no squeeze in
01:32it, you're not squeezing the putter for dear life, you're letting that putter
01:36rest and then rocking from the shoulders in a nice smooth action. You're then
01:41determining how far the putter goes by how much back and through you give it. So
01:46the reverse overlap grip is going to really make those longer putts much
01:50easier to control distance wise. You'll find it smoothly rolls on the green
01:54rather than jumping and skidding which is what tends to happen when we give it
01:56a hit. It's worth remembering as well that this grip might not be for you, just
02:01because your best golfing pal has started using it doesn't necessarily
02:05mean it's going to work for you. So you need to give it a little bit of time, get
02:09used to it but also if your putting is really really good, don't change it. Stick
02:15with it and take confidence in the fact that you're already taking the winnings
02:19from your playing partners.