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Reverse Overlap Putting Grip Explained
Golf Monthly
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9 months ago
In this video, PGA Professional Katie Dawkins talks through what a classic, reverse overlap putting grip looks like and how it will help you hole more putts!
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I am Katie Dawkins, I'm an advanced PGA professional and I'm here at West Hill
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Golf Club to talk to you about possibly changing your putting grip and I'm going
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to talk to you today about the reverse overlap grip. So how do you hold your
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putter grip? A lot of people would look down and go what do you mean how do I
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grip my putter? I grip it the same way I'd normally grip my clubs by
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interlocking or overlapping. Now that grip is designed to help you to achieve
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a bit of whip through the ball so give you a bit of a handy action in the golf
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swing. In putting we don't want that so it's a really good idea to maybe look at
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changing this. A solid option would be the reverse overlap grip and all we're
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doing here is we're taking the palms from working together with the main
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swing where we would achieve a bit of a flick of the wrists to turning them away
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from each other, putting the club more into the palm and sitting very softly
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this this index finger of the top hand over my cuticles. I tend to call this my
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cuticle grip when I'm coaching. It gives a lovely soft hold on the putter, I'm in
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control but I can now rock from the shoulders back and through the nice
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fluid action rather than giving it a bang. So what we achieve by taking the
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hands out of the equation and going hands-free is a nice smooth stroke. That
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will really help us with distance control, it'll help us keep the club face
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square and hold more putts ultimately and who doesn't want to hold more putts.
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What you want to make sure of with this grip is that there's still no squeeze in
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it, you're not squeezing the putter for dear life, you're letting that putter
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rest and then rocking from the shoulders in a nice smooth action. You're then
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determining how far the putter goes by how much back and through you give it. So
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the reverse overlap grip is going to really make those longer putts much
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easier to control distance wise. You'll find it smoothly rolls on the green
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rather than jumping and skidding which is what tends to happen when we give it
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a hit. It's worth remembering as well that this grip might not be for you, just
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because your best golfing pal has started using it doesn't necessarily
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mean it's going to work for you. So you need to give it a little bit of time, get
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used to it but also if your putting is really really good, don't change it. Stick
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with it and take confidence in the fact that you're already taking the winnings
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from your playing partners.
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