What Is The Best Golf Grip For Putting (Video) - by Pete Styles
What Is The Best Golf Grip For Putting (Video) - by Pete Styles

What’s the best putting grip to improve your game? Always this question has a really simple answer, but I’m afraid it doesn’t. It’s a question I get asked a huge amount of times in lessons with clients when they want to know how should I grip it when I’m putting. Why do so many people use different grips, what’s the best one for me? I wish it was that simple. Really the best one for you is the one that works. That’s the best grip, that’s the one you should have, the one that has the best results. Other people consider that they don’t want to hold it in the same fashion they would do for a full hind shot and I think that’s correct, you shouldn’t necessarily hold it in your normal golfing grip. We want to make some deviation away from that to be able to give the hands a sense of there doing less work. The hands aren’t flicking and releasing in a putting grip that being a lot more stable. But beyond that, there’s lots of different methods.

We could have the reverse overlap, where the fingers point down, we could have the pen holder grip, we could have the sole or the claw grip, we could have the cross handed grip, and any number of different variations on that of individual fingers pointing in different directions. Now if you’ve never had a different putting grip, and you’ve only just used that standard sort of normal interlinking or overlapping golf grip, here’s the change that I think you could make. Take your top hand on as normal and your bottom hand on but this time not linking the fingers together so there’s no link here. Then take the bottom index finger and point it down the shaft of the ball. Then take the top index finger and place it very carefully over the finger nails either all the way down or just one short, so both index fingers point down the shaft. Now those fingers now will work like little splints, little pokers or stabilizing rods that hopefully keep the hands more engaged and less flicky. So we’re going to splint this club into the hands, into the arms, into the shoulders, so the hands aren’t going to flick and scoop like this, which is an inconsistent putting method, they’re going to point nicely down, they’ll work like little splints, little prodders and pokers and now as we rock that backwards and forwards, I can feel my fingers are stabilizing that club. Both of my palms are pointing nicely towards each other in that grip as well. The palms aren’t trying to twist and flick and hinge. They’re pointing nicely down together, backwards and forwards controlling the speed, controlling the line. And that’s the best putting grip for you is one that controls the speed and the line on a consistent basis. Try them out, don’t be afraid to experiment and see which is your best. 2014-10-10

What’s the best putting grip to improve your game? Always this question has a really simple answer, but I’m afraid it doesn’t. It’s a question I get asked a huge amount of times in lessons with clients when they want to know how should I grip it when I’m putting. Why do so many people use different grips, what’s the best one for me? I wish it was that simple. Really the best one for you is the one that works. That’s the best grip, that’s the one you should have, the one that has the best results. Other people consider that they don’t want to hold it in the same fashion they would do for a full hind shot and I think that’s correct, you shouldn’t necessarily hold it in your normal golfing grip. We want to make some deviation away from that to be able to give the hands a sense of there doing less work. The hands aren’t flicking and releasing in a putting grip that being a lot more stable. But beyond that, there’s lots of different methods.

We could have the reverse overlap, where the fingers point down, we could have the pen holder grip, we could have the sole or the claw grip, we could have the cross handed grip, and any number of different variations on that of individual fingers pointing in different directions. Now if you’ve never had a different putting grip, and you’ve only just used that standard sort of normal interlinking or overlapping golf grip, here’s the change that I think you could make. Take your top hand on as normal and your bottom hand on but this time not linking the fingers together so there’s no link here. Then take the bottom index finger and point it down the shaft of the ball. Then take the top index finger and place it very carefully over the finger nails either all the way down or just one short, so both index fingers point down the shaft. Now those fingers now will work like little splints, little pokers or stabilizing rods that hopefully keep the hands more engaged and less flicky.

So we’re going to splint this club into the hands, into the arms, into the shoulders, so the hands aren’t going to flick and scoop like this, which is an inconsistent putting method, they’re going to point nicely down, they’ll work like little splints, little prodders and pokers and now as we rock that backwards and forwards, I can feel my fingers are stabilizing that club. Both of my palms are pointing nicely towards each other in that grip as well. The palms aren’t trying to twist and flick and hinge. They’re pointing nicely down together, backwards and forwards controlling the speed, controlling the line. And that’s the best putting grip for you is one that controls the speed and the line on a consistent basis. Try them out, don’t be afraid to experiment and see which is your best.