slater170,

A certain Moe Norman would disagree with the advice you got about the baseball grip. Moe Norman is considered to have been the greatest ball striker ever. He died in 2004.

I don't mean to say that he was so accurate because of that grip. Instead I mean that he was so accurate regardless of the grip he used. Then again, he would've probably argued that the method he used was the best and he would have pointed at his results as proof of what he said.

From my experience, the baseball grip allows the greatest control of the club. Logic dictates that I would, therefore, be more accurate using the baseball grip. I tried all three and I prefer the baseball grip because I was most accurate with it compared to the other two methods.

The baseball grip allows the greatest control of the club because the hands form a wider lever than with the other two methods. The interlock grip has two fingers interlocking each other which brings the hands closer to each other. The overlap grip essentially does the same thing.

There are two distinct baseball grips. The forward hand's thumb folded under the back hand's meaty part. The forward hand's thumb extended under the back hand's palm. I prefer the thumb extended, that way, I feel like my hands are more connected and working in tandem.

The baseball grip allows me more control to make better contact than otherwise. That's the reason I am most accurate with it and why I prefer it over the other two methods.

Anyway, if you can learn how to play using one method, you can learn how to play using any method. Don't be scared of learning one method just because you fear that you will learn something bad. Try it, if you don't like it, try something else and so forth until you find something that works for you.


Martin Levac