It has probably been asked before but does anyone here use the baseball grip or any instructors reccomend it to a student? I was working hard on my swivel at the range and it is much easier with a baseball grip. I have small hands and played little league as a child and it felt very natural to me. I have tried interlocking and overlapping for extended periods but I played best years ago with the baseball grip. I am going back to it. It might be psychological but I don't have to think about my hands with a baseball grip as I just know where they are and what they are doing. Any disadvantages that I should be aware of using this type of grip?
Baseball Grip
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Brian Manzella
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10-Finger Grip, Baseball Grip, Sarazen Grip
10 Finger Grip
The Hands are not overlapped, overlocked, interlocked in any way, but the left thumb is on the grip, and the hands are together.
Baseball Grip
Same as the 10-Finger grip, except the left thumb is on the back side of the grip, like a baseball player.
Sarazen Grip
Left thumb position of the Baseball grip, but with a "normal" interlock of the picky of the right hand and the forefinger of the left.
My take is that it took 600 years to come up with the grip we have now, and yours must need some fixing.
The Baseball grip sacrifices radius length.
10 Finger Grip
The Hands are not overlapped, overlocked, interlocked in any way, but the left thumb is on the grip, and the hands are together.
Baseball Grip
Same as the 10-Finger grip, except the left thumb is on the back side of the grip, like a baseball player.
Sarazen Grip
Left thumb position of the Baseball grip, but with a "normal" interlock of the picky of the right hand and the forefinger of the left.
My take is that it took 600 years to come up with the grip we have now, and yours must need some fixing.
The Baseball grip sacrifices radius length.
birdie_man
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How does the baseball grip sac. radius length?
Chip Putterman
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The same way a man's REACH always exceeds his GRASP.
You are making the swing "circle" smaller.
self-mastery
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Meh...
I don't buy this, BMan...
I play my best golf with the 10 finger and baseball style grip. I seem to get more control over the club this way. The Vardon and Interlocking grip are unnatural to most golfers. NO one ever picks up a stick, a bat, an axe, a sledgehammer, or even a golf club for the first time and uses the Vardon or Interlock. I would say use whatever grip that gives you good results...
Chip Putterman
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Self-Mastery, if I handed you a violin bow and you grabbed it like a stick, bat, ax or sledgehammer. You may bang out a few notes but will never be able to play an entire melody.
Grips are unique. But for the masses, the established grips will produce the best results.
Grips are unique. But for the masses, the established grips will produce the best results.
birdie_man
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I guess the baseball grip does have the right hand a little further up the shaft eh?
cmartingolf
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Moe adopted a 10-finger grip
Growing up in Southern Ontario, you couldn't help but get heavy doses of Moe Norman (which I relished btw). I'm not sure when, sometime in my teen years, I noticed Moe went from an overlap grip to a 10-finger hold.
I asked him why? He replied in his high-pitched stacatto while holding his hands out at me, "I have ten fingers, ten, why would I use nine?" Then he nattered on for a bit.
I have some personal video of Moe that I have to digitize so I can post some clips. You'd get a kick out of him pontificating about the swing.
He didn't really answered my question, nor did he ever really answer a question.
This is years ago and Tiger was on Tour one or two years at the time; I asked Moe, so what do you think about Tiger? Holding his nose, he said, "misses greens with pitching wedges?? He stinks. I haven't missed a green with a pitching wedge in 40 years!" If Moe were alive today, he may have modified his tune
Growing up in Southern Ontario, you couldn't help but get heavy doses of Moe Norman (which I relished btw). I'm not sure when, sometime in my teen years, I noticed Moe went from an overlap grip to a 10-finger hold.
I asked him why? He replied in his high-pitched stacatto while holding his hands out at me, "I have ten fingers, ten, why would I use nine?" Then he nattered on for a bit.
I have some personal video of Moe that I have to digitize so I can post some clips. You'd get a kick out of him pontificating about the swing.
He didn't really answered my question, nor did he ever really answer a question.
This is years ago and Tiger was on Tour one or two years at the time; I asked Moe, so what do you think about Tiger? Holding his nose, he said, "misses greens with pitching wedges?? He stinks. I haven't missed a green with a pitching wedge in 40 years!" If Moe were alive today, he may have modified his tune
self-mastery
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It's tradition... Like DQing a player if he incorrectly signs his scorecard. Basically Golf BS
My 9 month break from the game hasn't relieved my bitterness
self-mastery
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The established grips and instruction have it so that the average golfer eternally shoots in the 90's. 100's of years of golf and this is all the 'established' ways to teach this game can achieve.
I like the freedom in your thinking.
It's tradition... Like DQing a player if he incorrectly signs his scorecard. Basically Golf BS
My 9 month break from the game hasn't relieved my bitterness
Are you suggesting there should be no consequences for signing an incorrect scorecard?
self-mastery
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LOL There shouldn't be a paper scorecard!
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