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This concept video is discussing the trail hand grip for putting.

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So what we're going to discuss here is kind of why we're trying to get the grip in certain

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places.

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So in the grip video, I talk about where you get the center of your palm or the capitate

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joint, where you squeeze there, kind of in line with that first knuckle or in line with

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the middle of the grip.

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And what do we want to do with this trail hand index finger?

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Well, if I start with the premise that my goal is to get most of the rotation happening

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more from the shoulder blades and arms and less from the wrist and forearms, then

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essentially what I'm doing up here is I'm supporting the bottom and I'm applying using

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my left hand, but I'm applying all the force kind of in line with the plane of action.

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So it's in a pendulum motion, but it's in line with the plane.

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So as a real simplistic way of looking at it, if I was to put my fingers on the grip just

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like this so that they're on the side of the grip, in line with the target, this would

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provide enough stability that then I could rotate back and forth and apply force and I

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wouldn't have it in a lot of feats twist.

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If I start to push more on an angle like this, that will tend to close the face.

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If I start to push more on an angle like that, that will tend to open the face.

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So ideally, I'm going to push relatively close to the direction that the face is traveling.

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So that means that if I take this my normal grip, I pretty much have the middle of my index

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finger on the middle of the grip and I have my capitate joint, the middle of the palm

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kind of right there and right there both on the middle of the joint.

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So now just like I was doing with my two fingers like this, I can basically apply a force

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through the middle of the club.

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It happens to go in.

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This is where some of the unconventional grips like the claw and the pencil grip make

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a whole lot of sense because I basically just take either the index finger or the inside

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of the finger and I apply the pressure on the inside or on that backside of the grip and

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it's very hard to get that hand to twist unless I was that have a jerky motion with

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my forearm.

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So I'll have some golfers at first just to kind of experience that take one finger and

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place it in the middle of the grip.

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Just like this and then feel like they rotate back and forth and they just apply

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force kind of in that direction.

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Then I'll have them take their open hand and put it on the grip on the side and feel

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like they can again control the face without twisting it and then lastly we'll take whatever

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their normal grip is and feel like it stays in that same alignment and orientation and that

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helps communicate where and why we're trying to get the trail hand grip in a specific direction

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if that gives you a little bit more autonomy if you feel like you're trying to do the

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right grip but something just feels off.

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Just your grip until you feel like you have a couple different stable pressure points

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right in the middle of the grip and that tends to help stabilize that face rotation

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and give you a little bit better chance of controlling your start line especially on the

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short puts.