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The main goal of the grip is to place the hands on the club in a way that provides a high amount of feel, but restricts some movements that we don’t want. The easiest way to accomplish this is to ensure that pressure is more in the palm than the fingers. This is almost the opposite of what we are looking for in the full swing.
Steps for a secure putting grip
The lead hand (left for right handed golfers) Hold the putter with the right hand so that the putter face is vertical. Place the lifeline of the left hand along the edge of the grip about an inch from the butt end of the grip. The club should run from the middle of the heel of your hand to the 1st joint of your index finger. Close the hand using a STRAIGHT finger technique. Do not close your hand like you were making a fist. That will place the club in the fingers, where the straight finger grip places the club in the palm. Press your thumb down on top of the putter grip and you should have a grip that looks similar to one demonstrated in the video.
The trail hand (right hand for right handed golfers)
Now that the left hand is on the grip, slide your right hand up the grip until the hands meet, but keep the grip in line with the lifeline of the right hand. Take your left index finger off of the grip and slide your right pinky until it lays next to the middle finger as shown below. Then take your left index finger and allow it to overlap either the middle finger or the ring finger of the right hand. Your hands should have a unified feel in which your palms are facing each other and your thumbs are pointed down the shaft. Take note of the index finger of the right hand. Notice how it is in opposition to the tip of the thum below. This is the correct “trigger finger” position and provides a bit of stability, an increased amount of feel and is much preferred to the thumb down the shaft that many beginning golfers attempt.
Tags: Putt, Set Up, Drill, Beginner
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Okay, now we're going to go over how to grip the putter properly.
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This is one of the big keys for getting the putter face and path to match up.
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And there's a few key rules that we want to adhere to when we're taking the grip.
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But I'm more flexible and lenient on this than most.
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So the main purpose and the main goal of the grip is to be able to control your forearms
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and your wrists.
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So I want your wrist to be in as neutral position as possible.
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And they're going to pretty much stay in this position during the entire stroke.
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So I don't want to have a whole lot of movement either this way, this way or this way.
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Okay, we're going to have a little bit of this, but we don't want a whole lot of this or this.
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It's called flexion extension.
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This is only in radial deviation.
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We don't want those.
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And the big picture is we want to make sure that the grip is mostly in the palm
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so that when I close it, it's kind of locked in between the pads of the fingers right there
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and the center of the palm.
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It's almost like I was going like this instead of making a fist.
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Can you see the difference between this two?
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Okay, so the putter is going to be held more or less right there.
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So if we go from the top, I'm going to start with the putter on the, or my left hand
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on the side of the putter just like so.
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And then the fingers are going to be placed up against it.
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I'm going to do the same thing on the right and then I'm going to slide it down with that index
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finger of the left hand or the lead hand moving so that they can kind of connect together.
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So this index finger can either sit here, it can go down the side like so.
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But a lot of your feel is going to be right in here.
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So these two are going to act as a little pincher that's going to control the rate of rotation.
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Like if you were writing or if you were using a utensil, you would hold it right between
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these two.
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Pretty much going to do the same thing with the putter there because that's where a lot
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of our feel is.
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And then I'm just going to slide that up so that now my hands are connected.
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So you're trying to minimize the amount of gaps.
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You don't want to have a whole lot of space between your hands in the putter.
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You want the grip to more or less be kind of caress as close as you can.
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So you are going to have a little bit of a gap right here and your fingers are going
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to be straight because you're gripping in the palm.
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But I don't want to see kind of a lot of gaps between my hands like so.
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They're going to pretty much meld together and form together.
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So in both palms just like so, hands tending to favor more of a neutral position or slightly
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strong.
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I don't want to see you two week.
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So they are overlap just like so.
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That's a quick and easy way to get a good grip so that it's in line.
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When you're checking with your physical alignment, what you'll see is that if your grip
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is in the right orientation, you'll pretty much have the putter shaft going straight through
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your forearms.
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If it's more in the fingers and you looked in the mirror behind you, you would see that
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the grip would sit more below the forearm, the way it does in the full swing.
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So if it's here, then you can see that the center of my stroke is actually going to be
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somewhat more up in my rib cage and my hands are just going to kind of guide the face
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along for the right.
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So that's a easy way to establish a grip where your hands are going to be taken out of
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it or your wrists are going to be taken out of it and you can control the stroke with
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your big repeatable muscles.
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So give that a try.
