Grip

[Tom]

What a silly game we play. About six months ago I switched from an interlocking to overlapping grip. The issue at the time was that I might miss my drive right and this overlap change totally fixed me. However, just today I had an "a ha" moment... I used to average 14 GIR, and especially recently I've been hovering around 8 GIR.

My problem? My approach misses have been over draws and I've been missing left. Today, I realized "i used to average 14 GIR and sometimes had 17 GIR and I haven't come close to those numbers in a while. what's different??? GRIP!!!" So, I switched back to interlocking and out went my misses left.

but, for my driver and woods this grip does not produce goodness. so i used overlap for driver and woods, and my irons I used interlocking... it was great. i was hitting greens like the "old me" - soft draws right on target. summary - I feel overlap promotes an active right hand, and interlock creates a passive right hand.

what else did i do to even think of a change? after furyk's recent win and understanding of his double overlap, i tried his grip. i found that it makes the right hand completely passive, and therefore places necessity on the body to turn through the shot. this explains why furyk turns his hips through his swing way more than any other tour player. however, my hands are quite large (i'm 6'2" with size 13 shoes and very large hands) and this grip is crazy uncomfortable for me. but it is undeniable in what it does - takes the right hand out of the swing.

leadbetter has written about this... http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m.../ai_114373164/

Anyone care to comment?

[saevel25]

As in passive right hand, would that help in stoping of flipping, maintaining the flying wedge?


If your comfortable with it, than have at it.

[Tom]

As in passive right hand, would that help in stoping of flipping...

Yes, I think so. If you think about a "better player" and a flip, you could see that a cast/flip might occur because the right hand wants to "hit" and therefore it gets active and gets the club ready to hit. Whereas when you have a passive right hand, it's just along for the ride, so if you are turning aggressively through the shot you should have very little flip. If you haven't yet, give Furyk's grip a try with a mid iron - it'll take 5 to 10 shots but you'll get the sense of what I'm talking about.