Saturday, November 30, 2002
Golf - What is better, a skinny putter grip or a fatter grip? Let's say your hands accidentally rotate 1/8 inch during your stroke. On a skinny grip, let's say this rotation causes the clubface to move 5 degrees away from square. Now with a fatter grip, the same 1/8 inch rotation is a smaller percentage of the grip circumference, and therefore the clubface movement may only be 1 degree away from square. Here is an experiment you can use to challenge this idea. Get a piece of pipe insulation at your local hardware store. This can be easily slipped over your putter's grip to fatten it, and remove it whenever you want. Have a putting contest between skinny grip and fat grip and see who wins, you might be surprised.