Putting Grip to Stop the Flip

Get the Handle in the Lifeline is fundamental to good touch! By Brad Brewer

The Problem
Are you playing army golf with your putts? Miss to the left, miss to the right, stand up sit down fight, fight, fight!? This can be extremely frustrating especially when you feel like you have done everything correct! Well, you might be making a perfect stroke but fighting an incorrect position of the club in your hands.

What you typically do
Despite whether you are reverse overlap or cross handed, most golfers tend to grip the handle the same as their full shots. Low in the fingers is correct if we are wanting to execute a “power hinge”, but not ideal for the one leaver stroke desired in a rhythmically accelerating putting stroke.

What you should do
In your forward hand, grip the handle high into your life line and arc your wrist forward feeling the weight of the club head downward. Notice that now the putter and forearm are directly in line. Do the same exercise with your back hand and then place both hands onto the putter. This new grip position will create a variety of good additions to your putting stroke. First is that the shaft will be more upright causing your eyes to line up better over the ball and the arc to swing more straight back and through. Secondly, the putter will naturally release lower with the club face staying square to the target line for a longer time. Thirdly and most important is that your ability to control distance will greatly improve because of the golf club, hands and arms swinging more in synch as a rhythmic pendulum motion.

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