Reverse Overlap Putting Grip Explained

Golf Monthly

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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00:00Hi, I'm Katie Dawkins. I'm an advanced PGA professional and I'm here at West Hill Golf

00:08Club to talk to you about possibly changing your putting grip and I'm going to talk to you today

00:14about the reverse overlap grip. So how do you hold your putter grip? A lot of people would look down

00:20and go what do you mean how do I grip my putter? I grip it the same way I'd normally grip my clubs

00:24by interlocking or overlapping. Now that grip is designed to help you to achieve a bit of whip

00:31through the ball so give you a bit of handsy action in the golf swing. In putting we don't want that so

00:36it's a really good idea to maybe look at changing this. A solid option would be the reverse overlap

00:42grip and all we're doing here is we're taking the palms from working together with the main swing

00:47where we would achieve a bit of a flick of the wrists to turning them away from each other

00:51putting the club more into the palm and sitting very softly this this index finger of the top

00:58hand over my cuticles. I tend to call this my cuticle grip when I'm coaching. It gives a lovely

01:03soft hold on the putter. I'm in control but I can now rock from the shoulders back and through

01:09the nice fluid action rather than giving it a bang. So what we achieve by taking the hands out of the

01:15equation and going hands-free is a nice smooth stroke. That will really help us with distance

01:22control. It'll help us keep the club face square and hold more putts ultimately and who doesn't

01:26want to hold more putts. What you want to make sure of with this grip is that there's still no squeeze in

01:32it. You're not squeezing the putter for dear life. You're letting that putter rest and then rocking

01:37from the shoulders in a nice smooth action. You're then determining how far the putt goes by how much back and

01:44through you give it. So the reverse overlap grip is going to really make those longer putts much easier

01:50to control distance-wise. You'll find it smoothly rolls on the green rather than jumping and skidding

01:55which is what tends to happen when we give it a hit. It's worth remembering as well that this grip

02:00might not be for you. Just because your best golfing pal has started using it doesn't necessarily mean

02:05it's going to work for you. So you need to give it a little bit of time. Get used to it but also if

02:11your putting is really really good don't change it. Stick with it and take confidence in the fact

02:17that you're already taking the winnings from your playing partners.

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