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The Perfect Golf Putting Grip: A Secret to Consistency

Let’s examine the putting grip — one of the most overlooked fundamentals in golf. The correct grip accomplishes two critical things:

Let’s break it down step by step.

The defining feature of the putting grip is that the shaft runs through the palms of your hands rather than down in the fingers.

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With a normal full swing grip, the club sits across the fingers of both hands. Gripping through the fingers enables significant wrist hinge during the swing, generating the speed and power you need for distance.

In putting, power and speed are the last things you want. So we grip the putter in an entirely different way — one that promotes stability and feel over force.

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Chuck Quinton

is the founder of the RotarySwing Tour online golf instruction learning system. He played golf professionally for 8 years and has been teaching golf since 1995 and has worked with more than 100 playing professionals who have played on the PGA, Web.com and other major tours around the world.

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