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So sorry for such a late reply Harry, there's been a few problems with the forum service on my website, hopefully all sorted now!!
My golf grip was a traditional interlock for many years with both hands in a neautral position, but I always felt there was movement in my hands as I swung the club. This showed up with wear and tear on my left thumb and a sense the club had closed through impact.
I tried the baseball grip around 5 years or so ago and the main reason I did was to stop the movement in my hands. When I held a club one hand, either the left or right and swung I never had any movement which always amazed me!! When I first tried baseball the ball went left which I corrected quite quickly, but what I most noticed was how quickly it felt very good and when I re gripped interlocking how bad that felt straight away. It amazed me that after 20 years of playing golf my familar grip felt terrible once I'd hit 30 shots baseball!!!!
Since then I've gripped baseball and never looked back and would advise all my pupils to have ago. The conventional wisdom is that the connection of the hands on the club should help bring about consistency, most of my golfing life has been spent watching amateurs holding the club with 'conventional wisdom' and having no control or consistency. Most pupils I coach have a go baseball and change over to it, even though they have never considered that grip ever before.
With regards my left hand position it has moved more on top of the club (stronger) if you were ever to pick up a club in only your left hand and swing, because most people have less strength in their left hand they need to tweak their hold into a stronger posistion to help them swing one handed. That position I feel is a very easy position to find and very natural and is not the conventional two knuckle left hand position that I used to employ.
The end result is that I now have a grip that I feel is entirely mine not taught but found by thinking about the role the grip has and the job it has to do.
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