Ian Ward

I was interested in this as this was my natural grip when I first started playing, but was convinced it’s the wrong grip and went to the Vardon. I came back to golf after a 20 year layoff and have recently rediscovered the reverse overlap. I recently saw the film about Tom Morris Jnr. He was probably the greatest golfer of his time, but we really know very little about how he played. I noticed on the memorial to Tommy at St Andrew’s that he used a reverse overlap grip! It was made in 1878 3 years after he died at the age of 24, so I would think his father Tom Morris who knew his game intimately would have ensured his grip was correct when the sculpture was made. So in reality the reverse overlap called be called the Tom Morris grip. What do you think?