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 hand
00:58over my cuticles. I tend to call this my cuticle grip when I'm coaching. It gives a lovely soft hold
01:04on the putter. I'm in control but I can now rock from the shoulders back and through the nice fluid
01:10action rather than giving it a bang. So what we achieve by taking the hands out of the equation
01:16and going hands-free is a nice smooth stroke. That will really help us with distance control.
01:22It'll help us keep the club face square and hold more putts ultimately and who doesn't want to hold
01:27more putts. What you want to make sure of with this grip is that there's still no squeeze in it. You're
01:33not squeezing the putter for dear life. You're letting that putter rest and then rocking from the shoulders
01:38in a nice smooth action. You're then determining how far the puff goes by how much back and through
01:45you give it. So the reverse overlap grip is going to really make those longer putts much easier to
01:50control distance-wise. You'll find it smoothly rolls on the green rather than jumping and skidding which
01:55is what tends to happen when we give it a hit. It's worth remembering as well that this grip might not
02:00be for you. Just because your best golfing pal has started using it doesn't necessarily mean it's
02:05going 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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