Back to the Interlock

[Esox]

When I was younger and swung like a crazed ape I used the interlocking grip. Somewhere in my late 20's I went to the Vardon grip, it made it easier for me to work the ball. Fast forward 30 years...... I had a case of the snap hooks for months. Out of desperation and fiddling around at the range I tried the interlock. Immediately I was consistently hitting the ball where I wanted it to go. Can't make any sense of why but it worked. Any idea of why it fixed it?

[dagolfer18]

Hmmm...this sounds similar to my story. For a long time, I used a grip that was sort of a cross between a baseball grip and the Vardon grip, but then my golf coach said about two years ago that I should change it and he let me pick between overlap and interlock: I chose interlock.

Almost immediately, I saw improvement. With my old grip, I would hit one shot fat, then thin, then top, solid, fat again, shank. With the interlock, I saw consistency: solid, solid, solid, solid, fat, solid, solid, solid, etc. And I was also hitting them straighter. I also switched my brother over to the interlock about a month ago, and he became more consistent as well.

I found out that by switching to the interlock, and this goes for you too, my hands performed as one unit, and results showed more consistency, but with my old grip, it was like my hands were separated, and therefore there was a lot of inconsistency.

Hope this helps!

[SEMI_Duffer]

One of my next door neighbors had never even been aware of the interlocking grip until I showed it to him.  He thanks me again just about every time we play :)

 

[Vinsk]

3 hours ago, Esox said:

When I was younger and swung like a crazed ape I used the interlocking grip. Somewhere in my late 20's I went to the Vardon grip, it made it easier for me to work the ball. Fast forward 30 years...... I had a case of the snap hooks for months. Out of desperation and fiddling around at the range I tried the interlock. Immediately I was consistently hitting the ball where I wanted it to go. Can't make any sense of why but it worked. Any idea of why it fixed it?

Was this one range session? Often making a change can create the all deceptive ‘eureka’ moment. These moments are created by the Golf Gods, in particular, ‘Eurekius.’

[billchao]

3 hours ago, Esox said:

Any idea of why it fixed it?

Maybe switching grips kind of gave you a mental reset to find an old motor pattern.

[Double Mocha Man]

1 hour ago, Vinsk said:

Was this one range session? Often making a change can create the all deceptive ‘eureka’ moment. These moments are created by the Golf Gods, in particular, ‘Eurekius.’

With respect to trying new golf grips always trust, but verify.