Is Your Putting Grip Hurting Your Game – Simple Golf Tips

Is your putting grip helping or hurting your golf game? How you hold the putter can have a huge effect on your putting performance, while at the same time, what golf grip you are holding can influence your game and your score.

In today’s video, Mark tests the Golf Pride Reverse Taper putting grips and tests them against the amazing WHY Golf Putting Thing training aid.

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Two products that could help your ping help you improve your scores one of them it’s going to be very player specific which is the golf pide grip I’m trying these new reverse taper Golf Pride putting grips which we’ll talk about and to test them not only have I got some

Really tough greens here in Spain that I’m on but also I’ve bought the Y putting thing it’s called the Y putting thing now if you’re interested in the Y putting thing and you like what it does and you feel it could help your ping there is a code coming up here which you

Can use Link down below all this code to get the best price for that device let’s show you the grip and the putting thing yep it’s a putting thing so the Golf Pride grip this is a reverse taper I’ve tried this in the UK and now out here in

Spain it’s kind of staying on my on my putter I am really starting to fall in love with it basically it’s thicker down this end than it is this end um which allows you to maybe and it’s play specific like I said at the start get some kind of continuity between which

Hand is pushing and pulling at what time so I thought to test that we’ll come and test it on the greens and show you a few putts and what happens when you do putt with this grip is it definitely gives you more awareness of for me the bottom hand for

Someone who has tended to be a little bit when I’ve puted when I’ve measured on um hack motion device I use it’s shown that I can get a little bit this way with my putter so a little bit bent in this wrist a little too much lead

Wrist kind of straightening off and then I pull the putter through resulting in some pushes where I’ve actually been practicing recently moving the putter to me feeling like this is going more all together rather than this end overtaking this end so much which is what I measured seeing uh happening with my

Stroke and this grip gives me a greater feeling of that now does it make me do that well no it doesn’t fix my fault to be fair what fixed my fault was measuring and becoming aware of my fault and I can fix it with any putting grip I feel so

Meaning more my application of four over any putting grip can allow me to fix on measure data when I test it on hack motion my putting stroke to even out how I deliver the club and how much risk I put in does this grip allow me to feel

My putting stroke in a different way absolutely does it dial in with what I want to feel at the moment based on some measured facts absolutely so for me it’s the feel that it’s given me around what I’m trying to achieve I think really makes me feel quite different but let’s

Be quite clear here I am big enough and brave enough to know that the pting grip is not going to fix me it’s going to help me gain a feel that I want and the same next student isn’t going to feel it so it is a case

Of you picking one up and really trying to see if this idea of ficker down the bottom to fi finner at the top actually can allow you to control that better that is where the Ping thing comes in because that’s going to measure a few

Aspects of my stroke so we can see is it any better so let’s kick it off by showing you what this is it’s got little spikes on the bottom here which you allows you to put it on the green or your carpet at home and it’s going to

Stay put we got two holes here and two at the front here if you wanted to put tees in the ground to keep it super super secure then we have these dialing numbered funny shaped two Twisters at the front and at the back so the ones at

The back are there to allow you to try and get your putter through the 2T Tiger Woods gate if you imagine the reason this is super clever is that all puts are different shapes and sizes so not only does one device allow you to move

It in for small heads move out to say a one for big heads that gives a bigger Gap than the six which is a narrow Gap it also you can promote a six on one side and a three on the other subject again to your putter shape or strike

Patterns that you’re trying to push like if you always hit it out the toe or at the heel you could push the impact more to one side by having more pushed in here than out there super super clever and what do we get at the front we get

The same idea in these numbered swirlers um goes from zero to four four basically being a gate it’s a gate and in effect a putting mirror which I’ll show you coming from the two parts inside um all in one just one thing this is it the

Only bit that comes off is this black bit it’s got two purposes one it allows you to aim up the Y golf ping thing it’s called The Ping thing so you can use this to aim up which will show you and and two wait to the end I’ve got a

Surprise this has got an also super clever purpose which we’ll show you at the end so number one let me set my putter on and I’m just going to move I’m around a two and a two for both of these I’ve got quite a long-headed putter that does create quite a a snug

Gap so I’m going to make that a little easier a one and a one cuz that’s not the bit I’m too worried about the bit I want to improve is my start Direction so I’m going to go all out to test this grip that is a four in front of me and

You can see I’m not putting at anything I’m literally just going to try and start the ball through the gate like that yes please now when I’ve done this at home and in other situations you’re going to see the four which I’ve got here I’m actually getting better and better with the

Four because I’ve practiced a little bit for the video and working out how to use the device and and to test my new grip which definitely allows me to feel like I am presenting the putter face in a much more consistent spot you saw each one of those got

Through normally The Falls I do I hit the outside or the inside one depending on how I’m releasing that putter so by setting that gate up which is always a out in front of you practicing start Direction where you can imagine I’ve not done that towards any Target I’ve just

Hit that out at any distance in front of me you can do that at home you don’t need to be on the green you don’t need a hole you can now start practicing that face delivery which is going to really influence where that ball starts by literally having the gate set up ready

To go just on one unit that you put down that’s smart so on the pting thing we have a little rubber part here which keeps the putter from sliding grips it at a dress we have a face line up line here which is great obviously we’ve talked about the curly whires now we’ve

Also got these two lines I side of the ball cuz I know what lots of you are saying it’s not a mirror you said it’s a mirror I like mirrors mirrors make lots of sense well this is a mirror if you want to work out ey line over the ball

Which is where you would use a mirror for not for alignment not going to work out for that but for ey line it does have a mirror function so what you’re going to see the more I move over the ball the more you see the two black

Lines the more I move away from the ball more the outside black line disappears The More I move my eyes ahead of the ball the more that Line’s going to disappear so basically if you want to get your eyes over the ball you’re going to see these two black lines evenly I

Like to have my ey line about the neck of the putter which means this one slightly the ball just slightly Cuts over that black line so it’s giving me my face angle my gates for my Putter and I can move them subject to the putter shapes

It fits all shapes my gates for the start direction as well as ey line for where I want my ey line to be as well just try and hit a slightly longer part can I still start it online yes I honestly feel and it’s a feeling cuz you’re going to see me

Change grip again in my life no worries about that like my putter grip will change um at the moment the reverse taper I am getting more through this 4 and four gate than I’ve ever got through other Gates which are small like I’ve used the um this is probably the

Equivalent to a small puttout gate which I’ve used lots and I struggle to get it through there as consistently as I am at the minute yes please now let’s set it up towards a hole so setting it up towards a hole is super easy because it comes with this

Little black insert which is basically an alignment Aid so I’ve just popped it down on the ground let me aim it relatively straight right Edge maybe I might be wrong there basically wherever I hit that yeah that stayed at right Edge this now is fixed that basically is

Where that line will be so I can simply take that away and I’m now ready to go I’ve set my uh Aid up I’ve put the two pins in the ground just to keep it steady and now I’m basically practicing start line and a little bit of break now that

Was Fir and it went up the hill so let me try that again that should go yeah so I hit it first one slightly through the brake up a very slight or steep slope here the other two more similar Pace they took the slight brake and went in I mean I

Would be able to get on a putting green I can work on start Direction I can work on Club I could work on how good I am at seeing start directions by using that alignment Aid so you could get on different brake putts set that up

It’s only going to go straight out of this and you’re going to be able to say look I I thought it was there and it’s nowhere near there I honestly think I’ve got this one aimed slightly too far right side to be fair for it to go in

Consistently no it’s good it’s good it’s super low to the ground it’s a very thin piece of of kind of metal which allows me to not feel like I’m way off the ground yeah that one if you get it starting slightly right it doesn’t go so

I’m going to bring my start Direction in as well so anything coming out of that gate slightly right isn’t going in yeah I hit the left down one there brilliant it’s so good for helping you really start to try and identify patterns in your stroke patterns in your setup patterns in your

Ping that you can try and make more consistent and did you see how quick and easy that was for me to get a gate down there like as soon as that I was not hitting it in even on the thing I and it’s called the thing I gave me myself

Those start Direction Gates and bang I’m in the middle so we got the rail here to set it up for L now this also does something else remember if you’re liking the pting thing use my code get the best discount links down below as well so

What I’m going to do is find the flattish part of the green which is around here and I’m going to take the black thing which has numbers on this side and I’m going to flip it upside down where there are basically these two little ridges here and I’m going to

Place the ball on those ridges and I’m literally just going to pick this up until the ball rolls out and then what happens is I’m going to flip this over and there’s numbers on this side and the measurement is giving me between 9 and 10 this is basically now it’s a stim

Meter now I’m not going to hang my hat on it being the most accurate stimp meter on the planet but it gives me an idea of the stimp where I wouldn’t be able to tell you what the number is which we’ll talk about why that’s important in a second just best

Practices when you’re doing this I’m now going to do this the other way so going now back the way I was going and that’s now gone beyond the 12 so I’m basically rolling that uphill so the first one was uphill the second one downhill meaning we’re getting a different reading so I

Can do two things I can go off and find a flatter spot there aren’t many flat spots here by the seaside and it’s quite slopey these greens are amazingly complex or I can think I would guess these are around a 10 I’m going to put

Them at around a 10 on the stim they were just over 12 and then under nine or just around nine on the like up slope I reckon a 10 10 and half maybe even 11 now I can hear you lots of you are basically saying well why is that

Important why do you need to know the stim well a few reasons one reason if you’re playing and using I’m back on my fors my grip’s failing already is it if you’re using any Green books if you’re using any kind of feet to measure the ground for the

Slope you’re using aim Point ideas understanding the stimp will tell you how far your fingers should go and obviously if you’re using Green books you need to understand the stim to know how far to aim for the said slope that the book’s given you other reason as

Well I did a review recently which has been very popular oh on the left again with expart xart is a home Sim check out the video I’ll pop up a link at the end of this video um it’s a home Sim where you can practice your p in indoors at home if

You don’t know the stimp on that one I hit the left down one again um on that putting simulator you can set a Sim so you can putt at home and simulate how fast the greens are if you don’t know how fast your greens are at home then

Basically how are you ever really going to do that realistic practice having a device that allows you to understand a stimp isn’t going to appeal to all of you totally get that but for some of you it absolutely is going to be a golden ticket for using the other devices you

Use to help you on the greens what do you think would you change your putter grip do you like the idea of the reverse taper I do like that ficker at the bottom grip and the putting thing I’m absolutely loving it putting thing as the name I think’s a fail we need a

Better name than that what do you reckon to be a better name in the comments down below if you want to find out about X part and what I was talking about with that here’s that video it’s unbelievable indoor SIM for putting yep you heard me