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Okay, now we're going to go through the first person view of taking a grip,

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because I know

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that this one is a little bit challenging.

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And I do mention in the manual, there are lots of successful grips on tour.

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I'm going to show you a version of the Varden Overlap, which is probably the

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most common.

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But there's a few keys.

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If you're using a traditional arch-style putting stroke, you're going to see

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these

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keys highlighted as we go through the grip.

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So the first thing you can see is that I'm holding the putter at the end of the

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grip

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with the right hand, and putting my lead hand or my left hand on first.

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So I'm going to show you the two contact points.

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The first one is the first knuckle of the index finger, and then the second one

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is called

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the capitate joint, and it is the middle of your palm.

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It's kind of if you were to bring your pinky and your thumb together, it would

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be right

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where the muscles at the end of your hand crease.

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That's those two points are what you want up against the side of the grip.

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This will put the putter running along the axis of rotation or along your

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forearm, and

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it'll put the pressure points right in the middle of your palm.

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I'm going to place the putter right along there, and then I'm going to close

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the grip

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so that my finger pads are up against the opposite side of the grip from my

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palm, and

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you can see that my knuckles are straight.

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So this version you can see I'm gripping the club in the fingers very much the

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same way

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I would for the full swing, and you can see that the putter is resting on the

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right pressure

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point on my index finger, but it is not on the capitate point or the palm

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pressure point.

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And so what this would do is my forearms in the club would be rotating on

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different

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planes, so I'm going to have a little bit more difficult time controlling my

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wrists.

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By the way, if you do prefer straight back straight through, which I think the

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overwhelming

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majority of tour pros are not straight back straight through, they're probably

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a handful.

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This is actually how you should put or how you should grip if you were to put

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straight

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back straight through.

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But let's go into the more traditional arc punting stroke.

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So there I'm going to put the putter on the capitate joint, the first finger.

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Fingers look good.

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So I've got the putter grip in the good positions, and now I'm going to slide

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my right hand

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into position.

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I'm going to show you a couple of different ways, but I'm going to show you

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right now

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the key pressure point.

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It's again that capitate joint, which is the palm of the right hand.

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I know you're going to be sick of me saying capitate, but it's a critical piece

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for most

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good putting grips.

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So that joint is going to go right up against the knuckle on my middle finger.

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I'll show you right now.

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So that part is going to press perfect right up against the last knuckle on my

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middle

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finger, and that's going to provide pressure kind of going in towards the grip

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from my

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hands instead of top down.

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And then I'm going to place the putter in my right hand so that the first kn

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uckle of

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the index finger is also the last pressure point, and my fingers are gripped in

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the palm

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and flush up against the shaft.

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Here's the quick view of just the right hand.

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So when I took my finger out of the way, you can see pretty much from the cap

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itate joint

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to that index finger, you can see a little trigger finger in the right index

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finger.

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That gives you a lot of feel and a lot of control.

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So here's my quick left hand and my right hand.

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And one thing I want you to see here is notice how my hands kind of melt

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together.

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I don't like to see a lot of spaces or gaps.

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So if you saw, if you could see the space between my pinky finger of my right

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hand is

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flush up against my left hand, my hands are really working as one unit.

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Okay, so this is the last little finishing piece.

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I'm going to show you a couple different variations for the index finger.

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Some guys like it to sit on your middle finger, the knuckle right there.

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Some guys like it to sit all the way across all three of the fingers of the

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right hand.

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And some guys actually like to have that index finger touching the putter grip

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as I just

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had there.

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So those are three different options that you can play around with to figure

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out which

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one makes it feel like your hands are the most connected and the most stable.

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And now I'm going to put my hands down and you can take a look at what the full

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putter

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grip looks from my perspective.

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I'll even take a few strokes for you.

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So thumbs are down the top, hands are melted together.

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The only thing that's going to control the movement is going to be my upper

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body, my rib

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cage and my shoulder blades.

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So that's the first person way of how to take a standard Varden overlap grip

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with the putter

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shaft running up the forearms.

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Give it a try.

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If you normally have just been using the same grip as the rest of your clubs,

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this will

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make a huge improvement right away.