The Classic Debate Of Overlapping Versus Interlocking Golf Grips (Video) - by Pete Styles
The Classic Debate Of Overlapping Versus Interlocking Golf Grips (Video) - by Pete Styles

So as golfers we’ve got to understand our most important piece of equipment is the club. It’s the thing we are holding on to, it’s the only thing that we can use to hit the golf ball with, and therefore our link to this important piece of equipment is very important as well. And the only link we have is the grip. So therefore, it stands to reason that our grip can be a very fundamental part of whether we are good or bad golfers. Now changing someone’s grip is also very difficult thing to do as well. Because your hands get so much feedback in everything you do everyday, be it holding a pen or a knife and fork or a toothbrush, you know the way you hold that implement is very particular to you and trying trying to change that can feel really awkward because your hands gives you loads and loads of feedback. So when we have a golfer holding a golf club, particularly if they are holding it incorrectly, it actually takes quite a while for them to make that change. So one of the things I’m going to talk to you about now is whether you’re holding the club in the right fashion and whether you should consider making a change. And generally speaking there is two preferred methods of holding the club. Now there a lots more methods of holding the golf club, but not necessarily the preferred methods. And neither of these methods have actually been proved by anybody to be better or worse for golfers in general. But there are maybe preferences of people with particular size hands of people with particular short shapes or problems within their game. So taking as a right handed golfer, we’ve got the left hand on the top of the grip and we’ve got the right hand down at the bottom of the grip. Now we could have a baseball grip, an overlapping or an interlinking grip. And if I just walk a little bit closer to the camera, you are going to be able to see that position. So we’ve got the left hand on and then we go for an overlapping grip, an interlinking grip or a baseball grip. Now the baseball is a method I’m not going to really refer to anymore because that’s not my preferred method. I would rather see an overlapping, sometimes clusters of Vardon grip or an interlinking grip where both fingers interlink. Now during the next couple of videos we are going to like explain the benefits and the pros and the cons of each of those grips and how you might consider making a grip change. I would always suggest that you never make these grip changes lightly because they can take quite a while to get into them. So it’s not a case of, “Oh I’m going to change my grip from this this to this and my very first shot is going to go 250 yards straight down the middle.” It won’t be such an instantaneous change, but if you are struggling with a particular aspect of your golf, and you’ve looked at various different areas, but actually you feel like your grip is an area you haven’t yet looked at, maybe changing between the Vardon and the interlinking grip could be something you consider doing. 2015-10-16

So as golfers we’ve got to understand our most important piece of equipment is the club. It’s the thing we are holding on to, it’s the only thing that we can use to hit the golf ball with, and therefore our link to this important piece of equipment is very important as well. And the only link we have is the grip. So therefore, it stands to reason that our grip can be a very fundamental part of whether we are good or bad golfers. Now changing someone’s grip is also very difficult thing to do as well. Because your hands get so much feedback in everything you do everyday, be it holding a pen or a knife and fork or a toothbrush, you know the way you hold that implement is very particular to you and trying trying to change that can feel really awkward because your hands gives you loads and loads of feedback. So when we have a golfer holding a golf club, particularly if they are holding it incorrectly, it actually takes quite a while for them to make that change. So one of the things I’m going to talk to you about now is whether you’re holding the club in the right fashion and whether you should consider making a change. And generally speaking there is two preferred methods of holding the club. Now there a lots more methods of holding the golf club, but not necessarily the preferred methods. And neither of these methods have actually been proved by anybody to be better or worse for golfers in general. But there are maybe preferences of people with particular size hands of people with particular short shapes or problems within their game.

So taking as a right handed golfer, we’ve got the left hand on the top of the grip and we’ve got the right hand down at the bottom of the grip. Now we could have a baseball grip, an overlapping or an interlinking grip. And if I just walk a little bit closer to the camera, you are going to be able to see that position. So we’ve got the left hand on and then we go for an overlapping grip, an interlinking grip or a baseball grip. Now the baseball is a method I’m not going to really refer to anymore because that’s not my preferred method. I would rather see an overlapping, sometimes clusters of Vardon grip or an interlinking grip where both fingers interlink. Now during the next couple of videos we are going to like explain the benefits and the pros and the cons of each of those grips and how you might consider making a grip change. I would always suggest that you never make these grip changes lightly because they can take quite a while to get into them. So it’s not a case of, “Oh I’m going to change my grip from this this to this and my very first shot is going to go 250 yards straight down the middle.” It won’t be such an instantaneous change, but if you are struggling with a particular aspect of your golf, and you’ve looked at various different areas, but actually you feel like your grip is an area you haven’t yet looked at, maybe changing between the Vardon and the interlinking grip could be something you consider doing.