- Welcome, Adam Bazalgette here in Naples Florida,
and wanna talk to you today about golf putting grip.
I'm two-time PGA Teacher of the Year Award winner
down here and I think I have some thoughts for you
'cause I've been around some
of the game's real putting experts
that'll help you determine what
is a good putting grip for you.
Stay tuned.
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Okay, so golf putting grip.
What is an acceptable and unacceptable grip in putting?
There's a lot of choices.
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Now, different things that grip has to do and not do.
There's two primary things though
that in putting the grip doesn't have to do
that it has to do in the full swing.
In the full swing, we have to have a lot of mobility
in the wrists if you want any speed.
So it has to form a lever,
and that changes a little bit what you have to do.
Talk about that in just a minute.
The other thing it has to do in the full swing
to some extent the wrists and hands
have to square the club up.
It's swinging in a circle around you at speed,
and you have to be able to do that.
With putting it doesn't have to do it.
In fact we don't want the wrists to either be active
or squaring the club up.
We'll get into that in just a moment.
What does it have to do?
It really just has to link you to the club, obviously.
And it has to do it in such a fashion
that the wrists are actually very stable
and it minimizes the likelihood of club face rotation.
So let's have a closeup look here
at some of the components of a good putting grip
that'll help you to do that.
So as we get a look closeup here,
let me show you the main difference
between a regular grip and a standard putting grip.
In a regular grip, the hand would be
at an angle to the golf club,
or the wrist would be at an angle to the golf club.
So the club sits underneath this fleshy heel pad muscle.
Under there, and not quite at right angles
to the forearm, but at a significant angle.
Picture if you will, grabbing a hammer
to hammer with, you'd do that.
Now once you've got this pad on top of the club
and the club's more or less diagonally
across the base of the fingers,
you have a lot of leverage potential.
We don't want that in putting.
So in putting we're gonna get the club much more inline
with the forearm and it could be either
in a dead straight line or maybe
across the bottom edge of the forearm there.
And that means it's less in the fingers
and it's up against this heel pad.
That's what we're looking for in putting.
And that stabilizes the wrist,
this straight line so any kind of a lead hand grip you take
needs to form more or less a straight angle
between forearm and putter.
It can vary a little bit.
Now another key component in putting
is the angle across the top of your forearms.
If you picture a book laying on my forearms should
be very parallel to where you're going with your putt.
You don't want one forearm higher than the other,
much less likely the back forearm is lower.
But a lot of people come in,
they take this putting grip here
but they get their normal right hand grip
like so that's not gonna work.
It misaligns the forearms.
So let the right hand if you will,
bump up against these fingers here.
So that the forearms are parallel.
Now within this scope, you could actually putt cross handed
that achieves the same goals.
Forearms parallel to the target line.
Shaft in line with forearms.
You could have, oh you could have a finger down the shaft.
You could have triple overlap here, or a split hand grip.
There's a lot of possibilities.
You can even claw the club,
and maintain that kind of relationship of the forearms
both to the club and the direction to the target.
So a lot of choices as long as you get this line,
and this parallel nature of the forearms.
Okay, so I hope that clears it up for you.
There's a lot of choices out there.
There's a lot of ways to do it with putting,
but you must obey those two rules.
If you do that, you'll have stability in your wrists,
and a lot of other things
in putting will come naturally to you.
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and I hope this putting grip tip helps you.
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