welshdentist
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Just researching this and am about to search the forum. Does anyone have specific opinions on this and it's use in the full swing and/or short game?
Opinions on the 10-finger/Baseball grip...
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I've tinkered with a ten-finger grip in the past. I find that the club feels significantly lighter, probably because in taking the ten-finger grip the club becomes half an inch or so shorter. I hit the ball higher and with a greater tendency to go left, probably because I was flipping it a little.
Bob Estes is the only tour pro I know to have used the ten finger-grip, although there may be others. Moe Norman used a ten-finger grip in the later years of his life but played his best with an overlapping grip. I guess if you need a ten-finger grip, use one.
Bob Estes is the only tour pro I know to have used the ten finger-grip, although there may be others. Moe Norman used a ten-finger grip in the later years of his life but played his best with an overlapping grip. I guess if you need a ten-finger grip, use one.
welshdentist
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Just researching really, tinkered a bit chipping, helped to relax my arms somewhat...
I had read somewhere once that a good player had said he would go 10 finger if he started all over again....Can't for the life of me remember though....
I had read somewhere once that a good player had said he would go 10 finger if he started all over again....Can't for the life of me remember though....
curtisj76
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Yeah I agree, that's why I mentioned the lob and sand. I think you get more hand action.
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Richie3Jack
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I used an overlap grip for nearly 20 years and played some successful golf with it (at my best, I was a +2.3 index). Quit the game for about 8 years and got back into it in January. One day I was out practicing and developed a blister on a part of my hand, so I went to a 10 finger grip for the first time since I was 10 years old so I wouldn't rub up against the blister.
I actually started making fantastic contact with some excellent results. However, the big problem was it becomes very hard to not rotate the clubface over too much. That's why it's a great grip for beginners since most really cannot grasp what releasing the clubface is like and for people with small hands as well.
I actually start to think that the 10 finger grip would be great for a lot amateurs who have slice problems. They probably don't have some of the key parts of a swing down and need to learn those first and find something 'easy' for them to release the clubface in the meantime rather than trying to do it with an overlap grip that they cannot handle.
Anyway, in the end I went to an interlock grip because I like how it feels when I keep my right hand in a good position. But just the other day I went back to an overlap and liked it a little, but now I'm back to an interlock.
A lot of people will discourage you from using interlock or 10-finger, but IMO they are both fine grips to have and I would actually encourage people to try them out because they may find out that they like them and all it takes is about 10-20 minutes of range time.
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I actually started making fantastic contact with some excellent results. However, the big problem was it becomes very hard to not rotate the clubface over too much. That's why it's a great grip for beginners since most really cannot grasp what releasing the clubface is like and for people with small hands as well.
I actually start to think that the 10 finger grip would be great for a lot amateurs who have slice problems. They probably don't have some of the key parts of a swing down and need to learn those first and find something 'easy' for them to release the clubface in the meantime rather than trying to do it with an overlap grip that they cannot handle.
Anyway, in the end I went to an interlock grip because I like how it feels when I keep my right hand in a good position. But just the other day I went back to an overlap and liked it a little, but now I'm back to an interlock.
A lot of people will discourage you from using interlock or 10-finger, but IMO they are both fine grips to have and I would actually encourage people to try them out because they may find out that they like them and all it takes is about 10-20 minutes of range time.
3JACK
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Dave Barr, Bob Rosburg, Bob Estes, Moe Norman. Whatever works.
I have small hands and interlock. Is the overlap a better grip for lagging the sweetspot and or rotating the clubface?
Richie3Jack
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Maintainance of the 'interlock' can be problematic. Although I've had just as many problems keeping the right pinky on the grip properly with the overlap.
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self-mastery
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I've been using a baseball type grip for the last 2 years. The two orthodox grips are unnatural. No one intuitively uses the interlock or the overlapping grip, it's something that we are foolishly taught. Golf is full of fanboys!!!
I've also reverted back to a single axis type setup.
I've also reverted back to a single axis type setup.
Just curious, but what would you say to Nicklaus, or Tiger, or Daly, or any of the really good players that use an interlock?
Notorious B.E.N.
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You really just need to expirement with each type of grip and find out which one does not make your hands hurt. My hands always hurt with interlock until I switched to overlap now
I'm pain free. I don't think there are any great advantages/disadvantages between the three. I saw a guy on the nationwide tour using left hand low on full swings. Whatever works, right?
I'm pain free. I don't think there are any great advantages/disadvantages between the three. I saw a guy on the nationwide tour using left hand low on full swings. Whatever works, right?
welshdentist
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I know a caddie master who plays to about a 1 left hand low......
Swing looks goofy, but he can PLAY!!!!!
Swing looks goofy, but he can PLAY!!!!!
self-mastery
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I would say: Hello Mr. Talented golfer.
curtisj76
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Where and the heck have you been Self? You been hook'n up with Lorena?
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