Putting Grip Overview

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Okay, now we're going to go over how to grip the putter properly.

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This is one of the big keys for getting the putter face and path to match up,

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and there's

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a few key rules that we want to adhere to when we're taking the grip, but I'm

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more flexible

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and lenient on this than most.

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So the main purpose and the main goal of the grip is to be able to control your

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forearms

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and your wrists.

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So I want your wrists to be in as neutral a position as possible, and they're

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going

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to pretty much stay in this position during the entire stroke.

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So I don't want to have a whole lot of movement either this way, this way, or

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this way.

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Okay, we're going to have a little bit of this, but we don't want a whole lot

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of this

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or this.

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It's called flexion extension, this is older in radial deviation, we don't want

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those.

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And the big picture is we want to make sure that the grip is mostly in the palm

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so that

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when I close it, it's kind of locked in between the pads of the fingers right

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there and the

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center of the palm.

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It's almost like I was going like this instead of making a fist.

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Can you see the difference between those two?

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Okay, so the putter is going to be held more or less right there.

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So if we go from the top, I'm going to start with the putter on the, or my left

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hand on

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the side of the putter just like so, and then the fingers are going to be

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placed up against

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it.

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I'm going to do the same thing on the right and then I'm going to slide it down

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with that

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index finger of the left hand or the lead hand, moving so that they can kind of

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connect

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together.

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So this index finger can either sit here, it can go down the side like so, but

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a lot

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of your feel is going to be right in here.

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So these two are going to act as a little pincher that's going to control the

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rate

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of rotation, like if you were writing or if you were using a utensil, you would

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hold

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it right between these two.

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Pretty much going to do the same thing with the putter there, because that's

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where a lot

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of our feel is.

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And then I'm just going to slide that up so that now my hands are connected.

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So you're trying to minimize the amount of gaps, right?

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You don't want to have a whole lot of space between your hands and the putter.

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You want the grip to more or less be kind of caressed as close as you can.

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So you are going to have a little bit of a gap right here and your fingers are

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going

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to be straight because you're gripping in the palm.

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But I don't want to see kind of a lot of gaps between my hands, like so, they

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're going

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to pretty much meld together and form together.

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So in both palms, just like so, hands tending to favor more of a neutral

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position or slightly

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strong, I don't want to see you too weak.

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So they are overlapped just like so.

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That's a quick and easy way to get a good grip so that it's in line.

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When you're checking with your physical alignment, what you'll see is that if

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your grip is in

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the right orientation, you'll pretty much have the putter shaft going straight

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through

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your forearms.

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If it's more in the fingers and you looked in the mirror behind you, you would

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see that

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the grip would sit more below the forearm the way it does in the full swing.

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So if it's here, then you can see that the center of my stroke is actually

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going to be

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somewhat more up in my rib cage and my hands are just going to kind of guide

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the face along

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for the ride, okay?

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So that's an easy way to establish a grip where your hands are going to be

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taken out

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of it or your wrists are going to be taken out of it and you can control the

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stroke with

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your big repeatable muscles.

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So give that a try.