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How to Grip the Putter

Karen Palacios-Jansen shows why the top of the grip on a putter is flat and demonstrates how to take the popular reverse overlap putting grip.

In this video, I’ll show you how to put your hands on the putter grip. You will also learn how to do the conventional reverse overlap putting grip used by many professionals to minimize hand action and stroke the ball squarely.

Your putting grip should help the wrists be more passive during the putting stroke as the arms and shoulders do most of the work. If your back and neck muscles are weak, tight or imbalanced, then it is difficult to keep the spine, hips, and head still or steady in the putting stroke. The result is excessive movement in the body preventing a pendulum type movement.

The idea is to focus on keeping the angle formed between the back of the lead hand, wrist, and forearm from the takeaway to the follow-through, as the head, torso, and legs are stabilized. You need to have a strong core and back to keep this stabilization.

Don’t let the head or torso move causing the lead hand breakdown at impact.

Being able to engage and stabilize the body’s larger muscles results in a more consistent pendulum stroke.

So why is the putter grip is flat or square compared to a rounded golf grip on a club?

That is because the flat grip helps place the hands in an opposing position where the palms are facing each other and the thumbs can lay down on the front part of the grip. This grip helps minimize wrist and hand action so that the putter face stays square and does not rotate through impact. The rounded grip of a golf club helps keep the grip more in the fingers so that the hands can rotate the clubface open and closed.

To achieve the fundamentals of a good stroke, the key to becoming a good putter is quality practice. It is not necessary to spend hours on the green. Even practicing for 2 to 3 minutes is better than no practice at all. Make it a goal to always hit a few practice putts whenever you play or practice.

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