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just wondering what the most popular grip on tour is...  I've tried all 3 and like the baseball grip the best... does anyone on tour use it?

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I think I've seen numbers on this, and it was something like 48%/48%/4% interlock/overlap/baseball. Forgive me for not finding the source! But the moral of the story is that there is no 'better' method. People prefer one method to the others, but no style performs better than another. If baseball is what works best for you, stick with it!

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Most people tend to grip too hard with a baseball grip. The Vardon and Interlocking grips (IMO) tend to keep you from gripping to hard because it will hurt (especially the interlocking grip).

*EDIT* I am a pretty lousy golfer though so don't take my word as gospel.

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it just seems my ball flight is straigter with the baseball grip that's why I like it so much. I seem to get a lot more distance with it too. Yesterday I hit a drive on the green which the card said was 285yds.  I've gotten close before but this is the first time it actually got on the green (rolled on).  And all my drives weren't getting the hook ball flight they usally do. Maybe because I installed oversize grips??

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I can't think of a touring pro who uses the ten-finger grip, but I'm sure that a few do.  One of the lower HCP'ers at my primary golf course used it, and he played off a 3 so it worked for him.  He also toiled in minor league baseball for a few years so it was a comfort thing for him.

Leslie King, the founding father of the Swing Factory method, believed that no grip was the "right one", and that one could consistently square the club at impact with any grip.  Solid fundamentals, balance, tempo, and paractice are the keys.  Use what suits you.

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Originally Posted by mdrengl

I think I've seen numbers on this, and it was something like 48%/48%/4% interlock/overlap/baseball. Forgive me for not finding the source! But the moral of the story is that there is no 'better' method. People prefer one method to the others, but no style performs better than another. If baseball is what works best for you, stick with it!



I have no real proof of this but my impression is that the majority of tour pros using a baseball grip do so because of hand injury issues or because they grew up playing that way.  I believe that a former major winner, maybe Steve Jones ujses this grip for this reason.

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