Claw Grip Putting Grip Explained

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00:00 (golf club whacks)

00:02 - Hello, I'm Katie Dawkins.

00:05 I'm an advanced PGA professional

00:07 and I'm here at West Hill Golf Club

00:10 on their lovely greens to talk to you

00:12 about the claw putter grip and how it works.

00:15 Made famous in 2003 by Marco Mira

00:18 who adopted the claw putting grip

00:21 to help to save his putting game and he won in Dubai.

00:24 It's since become quite popular

00:26 as other players have watched successes

00:28 of other players who've had a go at it.

00:30 It seems to be working.

00:31 And the recent Ryder Cup saw Tommy Fleetwood,

00:35 Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood,

00:37 all putting with the claw grip.

00:39 So why does it work so well?

00:41 The claw grip puts the shoulders in control,

00:44 taking out that bottom hand

00:46 and stopping any sort of handsy action.

00:48 So anyone who suffers from the yips

00:50 or suffers from missed short putts

00:52 may well need to have a little go at this.

00:54 Here's how we do it.

00:55 So to actually apply the claw grip in your putting setup,

01:00 you need to take your top hand

01:02 and stick the butt of the putter

01:04 almost up into your lifeline and hold it very softly.

01:08 The other hand comes in

01:09 and almost like creating a little nodule

01:12 in this area here or a little shelf,

01:15 you hook that shelf in and underneath

01:18 and these hands just rest very softly

01:21 on the flat edge of the top of your putter grip.

01:23 What you'll find from there

01:25 is that this arm is kind of out of control.

01:27 You're really putting just with this side

01:30 and all that you're gonna do

01:31 is rock the shoulders back and through

01:33 and give yourself a nice smooth action.

01:37 The feeling of the stroke is light and really smooth.

01:41 The roll on the ball is gonna be much better

01:43 than if you were holding it for dear life like this

01:45 and getting a bit twitchy with it.

01:46 It's definitely worth having a go.

01:48 So what you'll find on the longer putts,

01:51 especially on greens as beautiful as these ones at West Hill,

01:54 is it's fine if the greens are nice and smooth

01:59 and they're quite speedy.

02:01 On greens that are a little bit shaggier

02:04 and a little bit slower, you will struggle.

02:07 The other thing to bear in mind

02:08 is that the claw grip is a big decision to make.

02:11 In your golf game, once you go claw, you never go back.

02:14 It's very hard to make the change back

02:16 to a traditional putting grip if you like.

02:19 So if your putting isn't a problem, don't change it,

02:22 but perhaps the claw is the grip for you.

02:25 Give it a whirl, see how it goes,

02:27 and hopefully you'll start to save shots on that green

02:30 with that lovely, loose, free-flowing stroke.

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