'Baseball' Grip?

Boskowski

What does boards think about the baseball grip?

Me personally I'm tempted to try it for some time now.
Maybe I'm just having thick fingers or something; I'm playing interlocking for years and baseball feels much more natural for want of a better word. Overlapping feels totally crappy and impossible and interlocking feels as if I'm not really having a good right hand grip at all compared to baseball which feels like I said - just natural. My wrists seem to work much easier too that way.

Or is this the golf wisdom again? If it feels easy it ain't right?

Anyone here playing with a baseball grip? What do you guys think is it worth a try or am I looking for disaster?

Btw I'm not exactly a high flying low handicapper, I'm off 17.

GreeBo

I switched about 5 years ago now...maybe more in fact.
I tried it as part of a drill to help with my wrist cock and tbh it just felt way better and I hit the ball better that way, so never looked back.
I putt with a regular grip, everything else is baseball.

sodbuster77

I've always used the baseball grip. My hands would be on the small side so it's the only thing that's ever worked for me.

stockdam

I believe it is preferred by people with smaller hands or shorter fingers. It's not common with pros.

Ronan Rafferty used this grip (if I remember correctly) and he was top of the European Order of Merit.......so if it works for you then go for it.

Moe Norman, Tommy "two gloves" also used it.

(I assume we are talking about golf here and I haven't stumbled into another forum).

John Divney

I tried it a few times hitting balls, seems to me if you are a right hand dominant hitter to power the swing into impact this would work, felt like it wanted me to fire the right hand through.

I'm a left side dominant player, pulling the club into release so this felt like my shoes were on backwards. I have small hands, and find the interlocking grip suits the best for me, due to baby fingers fitting , and creating even pressure in both hands.

A New earth

Yes played for 30 plus years with Vardon but started using 10 finger (baseball) grip for putting, then small chips, then irons & each time the results were better. Eventually about a year and a half ago reached the stage where I use that grip for everything except the driver (feel I lose that a bit at the top of the backswing if I don't have fingers connected)

I find I'm more accurate with this grip and handicap has came down from 10 to 8 which I'd say the grip contributed to. By the way I found it easy to switch back & forward so try it now & again or for certain parts of the game. Let us know how you get on.

A New earth

A New earth wrote: »

Yes played for 30 plus years with Vardon but started using 10 finger (baseball) grip for putting, then small chips, then irons & each time the results were better. Eventually about a year and a half ago reached the stage where I use that grip for everything except the driver (feel I lose that a bit at the top of the backswing if I don't have fingers connected)

I find I'm more accurate with this grip and handicap has came down from 10 to 8 which I'd say the grip contributed to. By the way I found it easy to switch back & forward so try it now & again or for certain parts of the game. Let us know how you get on.

Just to clarify I don't use a baseball grip but a so called 10 finger grip, difference is that the left thumb (for a right handed player) runs down the shaft instead of around the shaft in a baseball grip.

Boskowski

Thanks lads that sounds encouraging enough especially now that it's winter and I might find myself on the range every now and then.

I'm talking about the ten fingers grip too. Like a proper golf grip - left thumb under - but with the right pinkie on the club rather than on or around my left index finger. I thought that's what they called in golf the baseball grip although it's not truly a baseball grip.

scubapro

I played recently with a couple of low guys at different times and they both played with a ten finger grip both right handed players but unusually the right hand was on top of the club as opposed to the left, looked very unusual but were great ball strikers.

For Paws

scubapro wrote: »

I played recently with a couple of low guys at different times and they both played with a ten finger grip both right handed players but unusually the right hand was on top of the club as opposed to the left, looked very unusual but were great ball strikers.

Hurlers ?

scubapro

For Paws wrote: »

Hurlers ?

Maybe, although one guy was touching 60 if not a day and was playing off 5!

willabur

I use baseball grip for putting and conventional grip for everything else bar maybe a flop shot when I really want to put elevation and not distance on the ball

colmsix

baseball grip all the way.never known anything else no glove either by the way, a few dodgy looks over the years but results speak for themselves , 5 h/cap