| Fitting a big grip to your putter is a quick way to | | | | right hand out of play. These are only partial |
| improve your putting without taking a lesson. | | | | solutions and ignore the even simpler solution of |
| Tilt forward from the hips and let your arms hang | | | | arranging your hands on the grip in a prayer-like |
| naturally under your shoulders. You will notice that | | | | fashion. |
| the palms of your hands are level with each | | | | Another advantage of this neutral positioning of |
| other. This is how your body balances itself | | | | your hands is that it automatically brings your |
| without interference. | | | | shoulders in line. The standard reverse-overlap grip |
| This is also how you should place your hands on | | | | has a tendency to bring your right shoulder |
| your putter - the best anatomical fit, so to speak. | | | | forward changing your parallel alignment to your |
| Up until now this side-by-side position has not | | | | aimline. You can correct this, but it is just another |
| been possible as the circumference of the | | | | thing to remember. |
| standard putter grip is too narrow. There is not | | | | The problem with the big grip has always been its |
| enough bulk in the grip to comfortably | | | | weight. The standard grip weighs around 60 |
| accommodate your hands. | | | | grams, but the big grip has been well over the |
| In putting you want your hands to be neutral - | | | | 150 grams. This has thrown out the swingweight |
| ideally not involved in your putting stroke at all. | | | | of the putter and changed the feel of the putter |
| The age of using your wrists has given way to | | | | head. Of course, you can add back weight to the |
| using your shoulders as the means to power the | | | | putter head, but this increases the overall weight |
| stroke. This has come about as a result of | | | | of the putter. |
| smoother and faster green surfaces. | | | | Putting with a different swingweight is not |
| However, each of us has a dominant hand. In the | | | | insurmountable as K.J. Choi has shown us. But now |
| case of most people, it is the right hand. By | | | | at last there is a 'BigLite' putter grip on the |
| placing your right hand below your left on your | | | | market that is only marginally heavier than the |
| putter, you are promoting this dominance. | | | | standard grip. |
| Your right hand is controlled by the left or | | | | There is no excuse to grip your putter in a |
| analytical side of our brain when you really want | | | | sub-optimal way. The only negative to the big grip |
| to be using the right or creative side of your brain | | | | is that it does not fit into the putter tube on your |
| when you putt. You certainly don't want to be | | | | golf bag. Get to it. It may feel strange in the |
| thinking when you are over the ball. | | | | beginning and you will hear the skeptical |
| As a counter-measure some golfers have taken | | | | comments that it takes away the feel. Baloney. |
| to using a left hand low position. Others have | | | | To paraphrase the words of the song by Queen |
| adopted a claw grip which in effect takes the | | | | 'You can have it All, and You can have it Now'. |