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Putting Woes? How About a New Grip for the New Year

By David Dawsey PE Esq

Any chance this grip can help your putting?

The grip is disclosed in a patent that issued last week as USPN 7635309 titled ?Grip Arrangement for Golf Club.? The patent describes the invention as:

An improved grip arrangement for a golf club. The grip arrangement comprises a grip extension that extends substantially orthogonally from the shaft of the club and oriented to be substantially parallel to the club face. The grip extension allows a golfer to hold the golf club with the wrist of the dominant hand locked. The grip arrangement further comprises a shaft grip that can be used by the subordinate hand to grip the shaft of the club. The locked wrist of the dominant hand provides the golfer with more consistent and accurate shots. The improved grip arrangement is particularly well suited to use with a putter.

The patent goes on to explain:

An improved grip arrangement for a golf club. The grip arrangement comprises a grip extension that extends substantially orthogonally from the shaft of the club and oriented to be substantially parallel to the club face. The grip extension allows a golfer to hold the golf club with the wrist of the dominant hand locked. The grip arrangement further comprises a shaft grip that can be used by the subordinate hand to grip the shaft of the club. The locked wrist of the dominant hand provides the golfer with more consistent and accurate shots. The improved grip arrangement is particularly well suited for use with a putter.

In accordance with one aspect of the present invention there is provided, a grip arrangement for use on a golf club having a club head, a club face for striking a ball, and a shaft connected at one end to the club head and extending upwardly to an upper end, the grip arrangement comprising: a shaft grip, installed substantially co-axially over the upper end of the shaft, adapted to receiving the subordinate hand of a golfer; and an extension grip, attached substantially orthogonally to the shaft and sufficiently distal from the upper end of the shaft to allow the golfer's hand to grip the shaft grip, arranged such that a longitudinal axis of the extension grip intersects the shaft, extending from the shaft substantially parallel to the face; extending from the shaft in only one direction towards a toe end of the club head wherein there is only one extension grip attached substantially orthogonally to the shaft adapted to receiving the dominant hand of the golfer, wherein the dominant hand of the golfer grips the extension grip with the fourth finger proximate the shaft and the thumb distal from the shaft.

It may look ridiculous, but I am not too proud to give it a try.

Dave Dawsey  - Keeping an Eye on Golf Grip Inventions

PS ? check out other golf grip patent related posts here  

Full post as published by Golf Patents on December 27, 2009 (boomark / email).