Where Should Palms Face During Putting (Video) - by Pete Styles
Where Should Palms Face During Putting (Video) - by Pete Styles

Question here is where should your palms be facing when you are making your putting grip? Now there is lots of different styles of putting grip with the pen holder grip and claw grip or saw gripping and different variations of that. But I’m going to consider here that we are making a standard type of putting grip so a standard sort of front hand high rear hand low fingers pointing down the shaft something like that that’s going to be standard grip for most people called the reverse overlap. Now one of the things we really want to try and achieve here is getting the palms and the hands aligned up nicely together. And the feature of a good putting grip is actually having the palms to face to each other.

So when we take our set up to here we have our palms facing each other we rock backwards and forwards and the palms stay facing each other that’s a quite a natural thing to do the palm don’t want to turn twist too much. So when we take a good putting grip left hand on or front hand on rear hand at the bottom if you look there my palms are actually still facing to each other. I close my hands around then I make my putting stroke and there is very little twisting or turning wanting to happen in the stroke. If I had my palms in the wrong positions over the top, underneath they are always trying to twist and fight each other. So it doesn’t strictly matter where you have got your fingers where you have got your thumbs but focus really intently on are my palms neutral and are my palms facing each other so rear palm effectively facing to the target and the back of the front palm facing to the target as well. There and there that’s now a nice neutral putting stroke we should mean that my control of distance and my control of the line because the putter doesn’t want twist too much should improve. So have a little practice maybe get a mirror in front of you where that camera is have look at the palms check them in the mirror close it around make a putting stroke. Feel the club want to twist less if your palms are facing to each other and square to target. 2014-10-08

Question here is where should your palms be facing when you are making your putting grip? Now there is lots of different styles of putting grip with the pen holder grip and claw grip or saw gripping and different variations of that. But I’m going to consider here that we are making a standard type of putting grip so a standard sort of front hand high rear hand low fingers pointing down the shaft something like that that’s going to be standard grip for most people called the reverse overlap. Now one of the things we really want to try and achieve here is getting the palms and the hands aligned up nicely together. And the feature of a good putting grip is actually having the palms to face to each other.

So when we take our set up to here we have our palms facing each other we rock backwards and forwards and the palms stay facing each other that’s a quite a natural thing to do the palm don’t want to turn twist too much. So when we take a good putting grip left hand on or front hand on rear hand at the bottom if you look there my palms are actually still facing to each other. I close my hands around then I make my putting stroke and there is very little twisting or turning wanting to happen in the stroke.

If I had my palms in the wrong positions over the top, underneath they are always trying to twist and fight each other. So it doesn’t strictly matter where you have got your fingers where you have got your thumbs but focus really intently on are my palms neutral and are my palms facing each other so rear palm effectively facing to the target and the back of the front palm facing to the target as well. There and there that’s now a nice neutral putting stroke we should mean that my control of distance and my control of the line because the putter doesn’t want twist too much should improve. So have a little practice maybe get a mirror in front of you where that camera is have look at the palms check them in the mirror close it around make a putting stroke. Feel the club want to twist less if your palms are facing to each other and square to target.