Has anyone tried a Garsen Edge Grip? https://www.garsengolf.com/ @SeeMorePutters uses these on their putters. I first heard about them from the inventor and owner on SeeMore’s Putting Couch podcast. Sounded pretty interesting.
The idea is there is a ridge down the middle of the top side of the putter grip where your thumbs would normally overlap. The ridge guides your thumbs more to the side of the grip, which places your arms more in line with how they would naturally hang in an athletic position. It allows your arms to hang more naturally in the shoulder sockets and allows you to relax your elbows as they fall more naturally into your sides. From this position, the inventor (and SeeMore) claim that you should be able to rock your shoulders back and through more naturally with less tension and manipulation. It’s also more in line with what Pat O’Brien, the SeeMore putting guru, calls the perfect athletic position for putting, which you can find by swinging a full 32 oz. Nalgene back and forth like a putter. When you do that, your thumbs are more off to the sides of the Nalgene, not overlapping on the side furthest from your body, and your arms are hanging straight down from your shoulders, and your elbows are relaxed and closer in by your sides.
I don’t have the Garsen Edge grip, but I recently went from a stock Ping PP60 on my Sigma Anser to a SuperStroke Flatso 2.0 (that my local shop put on a whim when they couldn’t save the PP60) when I changed from 33.5" to 35.5" per SeeMore’s online fitting tool. The larger Flatso gives me enough surface area to place my thumbs on either side of the flat top part of the grip, which achieves basically the same thing as the Garsen Edge Grip. In addition to the benefits above, this new grip gets my hands slightly more under the putter, as opposed to on top of it, which reduces the chance that I’ll press down and into the putter during the stroke, which Pat O’Brien says is a huge no-no! The hands being more under and supportive of the club seem to allow the putter to move more as it wants to, and less like I’m fighting it and manipulating it.
I think early testing suggests I like the thumbs more off to the side and opposing, rather than overlapping.
Anyone else try this?