Making A Cross Handed Golf Putting Stroke (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles
Making A Cross Handed Golf Putting Stroke (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles

So if you feel like you are not committed to making the change of the cross handed putting grip, you have now got your hands on the right way around, you’ve settled on the right grip, you've understood the pros and the cons. We can now look at the actual physical makeup of the stroke, how that stroke is put together and how it's and if and how it’s different to a standard putting stroke. The major change and the major reason why myself and other golfers make this change is actually to stabilize the right hand particularly under pressure.

So a golfer in a standard putting grip, would find a right hand particularly if that’s not a dominant hand, could get a bit active and a bit flippy and could close the club face down, so particularly if you are trying to make a straight back and straight through, if the right hand gets involved that could ruin lots and lots of good putting strokes. So the cross handed method generally puts the right hand in a position where it's a lot less active. The left hand dominates more, the right hand is a lot more passive and with straight back and straight through, so I feel that’s my major change and my major difference is it stops my right hand getting too active. A couple of other key things I like to focus in, so really work hard on rocking the shoulders, so as the shoulders come back and through, we rock left shoulder down right shoulder up, right shoulder down, left shoulder up, so effectively rocking the shoulders here, definitely not turning the shoulders. So we don’t rotate the shoulders this way but we rock this way and having the shoulders rocking up and down in that fashion and stabilizing the hands, so the hands don’t do too much work, is generally the best way of just keeping this club nicely on line. Straight back, straight through, rocking back, rocking through, and at this point here making sure the club still points the target and the right hand hasn’t taken over and hooked it off the left side. And if we can get that straight back straight through motion, you generally find that your putting will be lot more consistent with this cross handed method. 2016-04-18

So if you feel like you are not committed to making the change of the cross handed putting grip, you have now got your hands on the right way around, you’ve settled on the right grip, you've understood the pros and the cons. We can now look at the actual physical makeup of the stroke, how that stroke is put together and how it's and if and how it’s different to a standard putting stroke. The major change and the major reason why myself and other golfers make this change is actually to stabilize the right hand particularly under pressure.

So a golfer in a standard putting grip, would find a right hand particularly if that’s not a dominant hand, could get a bit active and a bit flippy and could close the club face down, so particularly if you are trying to make a straight back and straight through, if the right hand gets involved that could ruin lots and lots of good putting strokes.

So the cross handed method generally puts the right hand in a position where it's a lot less active. The left hand dominates more, the right hand is a lot more passive and with straight back and straight through, so I feel that’s my major change and my major difference is it stops my right hand getting too active. A couple of other key things I like to focus in, so really work hard on rocking the shoulders, so as the shoulders come back and through, we rock left shoulder down right shoulder up, right shoulder down, left shoulder up, so effectively rocking the shoulders here, definitely not turning the shoulders.

So we don’t rotate the shoulders this way but we rock this way and having the shoulders rocking up and down in that fashion and stabilizing the hands, so the hands don’t do too much work, is generally the best way of just keeping this club nicely on line. Straight back, straight through, rocking back, rocking through, and at this point here making sure the club still points the target and the right hand hasn’t taken over and hooked it off the left side. And if we can get that straight back straight through motion, you generally find that your putting will be lot more consistent with this cross handed method.