Natalie Adams – PGA Teaching Pro

To become a really excellent putter it’s important that both of your hands are working as a units and in unison with each other during your putting stroke. If you have one hand that’s becoming more dominant than the other it’s going to be very difficult to control the club face and the accuracy of your puts.

So here we are going to look at having a grip where your palms are facing each other to give you a much more consistent putting stroke and a much more accurate putting stroke. So to achieve your palms facing each other during the putting grip you are going to place your left hand onto the handle so that your left thumb is pointing directly down the front of the handle. And that will put your palm on to the left side of the putter grip, and then just wrap your fingers around the back.

And the same with your right hand if you are a right handed player that’s going to go below your left hand, thumb on the front and your palm is now on the right side. So basically it create a grip where your hands, palms towards each other. And with your palms facing each other this neutralizes any rotation in your arms or in your hands during the putting stroke.

Now that’s really important because with no rotation in the arms and in the hands you can swing the putters straight back and straight through and along the target line and it means that the putter face is going to keep aiming down the target line, you are going to hit a ready strike putts. If your palms aren’t facing each other so if I deliberately here put my palm as outwards with my right hand, and then hold the putter, my right hand is going to start to rotate palm inwards as I swing the putter back towards the ball.

Now that happens because when you stand naturally with your arms relaxed by your sides, you’ll notice that you palms are inwards towards your body. You physically have to rotate your palms outwards so in a nice relaxed neutral position, your palms are in towards you. You hold the putter with your palm outwards, as you swing the putter away and then swing back towards the ball that right palm is going to naturally want to rotate in towards your body to where it feels more comfortable and it’s going to affect the club face.

And the same will happen with your left hand as well just in the opposite way your palm will rotate anticlockwise rather than clockwise. So to get a better putting stroke work on having that palm to get the grip it will allow you to swing the putter straight back and through and down the target line and it’ll really reduce the rotation in your hands on your forearms and it’ll keep the club face pointing at the target for a lot longer.