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

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

00:13to talk to you today about the reverse overlap grip. So how do you hold your

00:18putter grip? A lot of people would look down and go what do you mean how do I

00:21grip my putter? I grip it the same way I'd normally grip my clubs by

00:25interlocking or overlapping. Now that grip is designed to help you to achieve

00:30a bit of whip through the ball so give you a bit of a handy action in the golf

00:33swing. In putting we don't want that so it's a really good idea to maybe look at

00:38changing this. A solid option would be the reverse overlap grip and all we're

00:44doing here is we're taking the palms from working together with the main

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

00:51from each other, putting the club more into the palm and sitting very softly

00:55this this index finger of the top hand over my cuticles. I tend to call this my

01:00cuticle grip when I'm coaching. It gives a lovely soft hold on the putter, I'm in

01:05control but I can now rock from the shoulders back and through the nice

01:10fluid action rather than giving it a bang. So what we achieve by taking the

01:14hands out of the equation and going hands-free is a nice smooth stroke. That

01:20will really help us with distance control, it'll help us keep the club face

01:23square and hold more putts ultimately and who doesn't want to hold more putts.

01:27What 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

01:36rest and then rocking from the shoulders in a nice smooth action. You're then

01:41determining how far the putter goes by how much back and through you give it. So

01:46the reverse overlap grip is going to really make those longer putts much

01:50easier to control distance wise. You'll find it smoothly rolls on the green

01:54rather than jumping and skidding which is what tends to happen when we give it

01:56a hit. It's worth remembering as well that this grip might not be for you, just

02:01because your best golfing pal has started using it doesn't necessarily

02:05mean it's going to work for you. So you need to give it a little bit of time, get

02:09used to it but also if your putting is really really good, don't change it. Stick

02:15with it and take confidence in the fact that you're already taking the winnings

02:19from your playing partners.

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