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Putting Grips & Styles
| Putting Grips & Styles Frank Nobilo |
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| Good putting starts with one thing - - a good grip! But which one do you choose? There's the common reverse overlap grip with the left index finger sitting on top of the the fingers of the right hand. What about the Claw grip that Chris DiMarco uses? It certainly works for him. Or, the cross-handed grip where the lead hand is lower on the shaft than the trailing hand? Which one are you going to choose? |
 Reverse Overlap |
 The Claw |
 Cross-Handed |
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Probably ninety-five percent of the tour players use the reverse overlap grip. But the way Chris DiMarco has been putting, the last few years, a lot more people have been changing over to the Claw grip. When you look at it, there's a lot of merit to it. It keeps your right arm on the same line that you're trying to hit the putt on. So it helps you guide and push at the same time. Not unlike Sam Snead's side-saddle style many years ago. |
 Cross-Handed Grip & Putting Style |
| The cross-handed grip is also becoming more popular these days as well. It really does a lot of things were easily. It puts our leading hand underneath our trailing hand, which helps us guide the ball to the hole. It also gets our shoulders very square and puts our elbows in an exact mirror image of each other. So putting becomes nearly automatic. Whatever putting grip and style you try…make sure they go in! |
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