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Any Pros Use a Baseball Grip?

Donnie_Brasco

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Donnie_Brasco Well Established Member

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Has anyone seen or heard of a pro using a BB grip?

Tiger seems to overlap his left index finger on to hi right pinky or so it seems.. Just curious?

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I don't understand your comment about Tiger... 99% of all pro's use overlap grip.

As for baseball grip, I have had to go to that due to an injury. I may wrong but I seen to recall that Lance Ten Broek or however you spell it... a pro from years ago... used baseball grip.

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Albert Pujols, David Wright, Derek Jeter, etc...

Oh THAT baseball grip

it feels so awkward

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Donnie_Brasco Well Established Member

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most tour pros overlap their right pinky over their left index finger..

tiger seems to overlap his left index over his right pinky.. i noticed this because of his glove being on top of the pinky.. unless i am completely viewing it wrongly..

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I think it's more like 80% of tour pros use overlap/vardon.

Tiger uses the interlock grip because his childhood hero Jack Nicklaus did.

To answer your question though: Moe Norman was famous for using the baseball grip.
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Bob Estes (as has been previously pointed out) experimented with the baseball grip on tour, and played pretty well. But last time I saw him, he was using with his old grip and had abandoned the baseball grip. Bob is fun to play golf with and an all-round great guy. He is ranked 32nd all time on the PGA tour money list.

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most tour pros overlap their right pinky over their left index finger..

Tiger uses an interlocking grip, not an overlapping grip (and certainly not baseball or ten-finger).

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Are you talking about that athletic tape?

I usually tape one of my fingers from an old injury.

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I use an interlocking, because it feels the most natural, and is definately more consistent than the overlap. When my instructor got me to try the baseball grip, it was a complete mess.

I find my wrists feel much stronger without having to squeeze the club as hard to get that strength. Distance and ballflight have improved. Im only sufferring a slight, slight hook with my irons, and were working on fixing that. My driver and wedges are my biggest problem right now, both being extremely important.

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Ok, let me ask the question a different way. What grip would you use if you'd played 28 years of baseball in your life?

I use baseball grip and shot in lower 80's every time I go out. Maybe /i could shoot in 70's if using interlocking or overlapping, not sure.

 


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2 hours ago, DonB5750 said:

Ok, let me ask the question a different way. What grip would you use if you'd played 28 years of baseball in your life?

I use baseball grip and shot in lower 80's every time I go out. Maybe /i could shoot in 70's if using interlocking or overlapping, not sure.

 

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1 hour ago, DaveP043 said:

You may not get a lot of response here, the last time anyone posted here was a little over 6 years ago.

@DaveP043 means in this particular topic, of course, by "here." Not the forum or even this specific sub-forum, of course. 😄

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13 minutes ago, iacas said:

@DaveP043 means in this particular topic, of course, by "here." Not the forum or even this specific sub-forum, of course. 😄

Of course @iacas is right.  And I really should give credit, so many newcomers simply start a brand new topic, @DonB5750 did exactly the right thing in researching for an existing thread to post in.  Once again, welcome.

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On 6/4/2009 at 11:40 PM, songwriter said:

I don't understand your comment about Tiger... 99% of all pro's use overlap grip.

 

Tiger uses the interlock grip. The overlap grip or I believe it is called the Varna grip is popular but I doubt 99% of pros use it.

 


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17 minutes ago, snow bird said:

Tiger uses the interlock grip. The overlap grip or I believe it is called the Varna grip is popular but I doubt 99% of pros use it.

You replied to a post made in 2009.

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