Putting Grips to Putt Better - Golf Putting Tips
Putt Better and Hole Short Putts, Putting Grips for Perfect Stroke
Aug 18, 2009
When Bernard Langer changed his putting grip from an orthodox reverse overlap putting grip to left hand below right, many were convinced his career was over. Hardly any professionals experimented with different putting grips and doing so was an admission that a golfer was struggling to hole short putts. Nowadays however the reverse over lap grip is only one of many different methods of holding the putter with your hands. If you are struggling on the greens witha poor stroke try these different methods to see which one holes most short putts.
Putting Grip Tips - Reverse Overlap Grip
- This has been the most traditional and popular putting grip for many years. The theory behind the grip is to combine both hands into one unit taking out the liability of the right becoming overactive, the reason many short putts are missed.
- To position your hands on the club for a reverse overlap grip hold your putter with a conventional golf grip.
- Without moving your hand position on the putter release your left index finger and place it on top of the fingers of your right hand. (picture 1)
- This stretches the tendons in the back of your left hand and acts as a block to stop the right hand over releasing.
- Go to the putting green and try putting with this method. Hit twenty putts from five feet and see how many you can hole.
Cure the Yips with Left Below Right Putting Grip
- Swapping to this putting grip saved Bernard Langer’s career as a professional golfer. Gripping the putter with the left hand below the right changes the dynamics of the putting stance. The left shoulder drops below the right, which makes it much easier to swing the putter away from the ball.
- The left hand below the right grip (picture 2) sometimes known as a 'cack handed grip', also makes it easy to bring the putter through squarely to the hole without the right hand twitching the face closed.
- Anyone suffering from a putting yip or twitch should experiment with this grip.
- Once again hit twenty putts from five feet to see how the grip feels how many it holes in comparison to the reverse overlap putting grip.
Putt Better with the Claw Putting Grip
This putting grip is designed to completely eradicate and cure the right hand yip. The right hand is set completely differently on the club. This style of holding the putter is now used on tour but normally by the older pros who suffer from nerves on the greens and who are liable to yip.
- Take up your normal grip then take off your right hand. Instead of the palm of the right hand facing the hole, in the claw grip the palm faces your body. The back of the right hand faces away from you. (picture 3)
- With this grip the putting stroke becomes more of a pull push stroke with the whole right arm acting as the power source rather than the right hand and forearm.
- This was a grip most golfers would have been too embarrassed to use but now popular with the pros don’t be worried experimenting with this method.
- Hit twenty putts on the putting green and see how the grip feels and how many putts you can hole.
See also: Best Putter for Your Stroke - PGA Tip or Simple Explanation of the Perfect Golf Swing
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