Why You Need This: In this video, you get a Jordan Spieth putting grip lesson to help make you a better putter.

You'll also find out how to be less "handsy" in your putting stroke.

Minimizing your hand movements when putting prevents flipping the putter, and you'll get a more consistent roll towards the hole.

First, you'll get a great analysis of Spieth's putting grip...

Spieth does a good job at getting his left hand low on the grip.

This left hand low method keeps his left wrist firm as he putts.

Spieth's right hand double overlaps and fits nicely with the left hand.

Now on the putting stroke...

As Spieth brings back his putter, he adds a little bit of forward shaft lean.

So, you don't want your wrists to be totally locked throughout the putting stroke.

It's OK to be a little flexible but, of course, you don't want to flip the putter.

Watch this video now to discover how to get the right amount of firmness with your putting stroke.

Not too flippy, but still allow your wrists to flex a small, controlled amount.

Practice this putting method and drain more putts like Jordan Spieth!

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Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:00

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back to Top Speed Golf. Today we’re going to take a look at Jordan Spieth’s grip and his putting stroke, and talk about how you can get your hands out of your putting stroke.

So some of you out there may feel like you’re flipping at the ball, like you’re getting inconsistent with your stroke. Having the proper grip, getting left hand low like Jordan Spieth does can really help you to eliminate your hands for those of you who struggle with that.

I believe that you can use a conventional putting grip or a left hand low, but his grip in particular really helps to take the hands out completely.

When he uses left hand low, one of the typical things that you’ll see with most putters if you open up your hand you’re going to see that there’s a life line that runs right below your thumb and kind of wraps around to just below the index finger, the knuckle and the bottom knuckle of the index finger.

The life line that runs through there, usually you’re going to see that life line on the edge of the putter. Now his hand is a little bit higher up, and what that does is that can kind of lock the left wrist in, so that the left wrist instead of being flat is almost rolled down like this as he’s gripping the putter.

That’s going to feel like your left wrist is staying nice and firm. Now with the left hand low, he’s going to try to keep that left wrist fairly firm. It’s going to rock a little bit back and forth, we’ll show that in a second after this video, but it’s not going to be moving around a lot.

One of the other things he does is he uses what’s called a double overlap with the right hand. So you’ll notice the index finger of the right hand is resting just on the second finger of the left hand. Here’s your index finger, left hand, the middle finger. So your index finger of your right hand is going to be right on the crease of the outside of the middle finger on your left hand.

What that does, is that gets both of your hands locked in together very closely, and if you want to check to make sure you’re doing this correctly, the left hand thumb is going to be on top of the grip and your right hand thumb is going to sit right in the crease, right in the nook just below the knuckle of your left hand.

If you do that, both hands are now going to be together. Let’s go ahead and take a look at his stroke from face on, and let’s talk about what he’s doing once he has his good grip.

All right, so now that we have this good grip, you’re going to notice that the left wrist is pretty flat, it’s angled down as you see. You see the thumbs are close together, and the right hand has a little bit more bend in it.

Now as he goes to the back of his stroke, or he starts his stroke, he’s going to get a little bit of forward shaft lean.

So you can see the hands press forward slightly, and then as he goes to the end of the stroke, you’re going to see that now the angle in the right wrist, and the forearm, and the putter shaft is going to be increased the most.

The left hand from the forearm all the way down is starting to create a straighter line with the putter head. Then from there all he’s going to do is let that putter head swing forward with the momentum of gravity.

If we go on through to the finish, he’s keeping that same angle in the left wrist all the way down the forearm, into the putter head, the putter shaft, and holding that all the way on through to the finish as that ball rolls out of sight. You want to keep this lead arm as a nice unit as you’re going through there.

Now it doesn’t mean that we’re going to be locking this in, we don’t want to feel like we’re just locked in completely. Notice that his wrists are relaxed enough that he’s allowed to get a little bit of forward shaft lean.

As he completes the backswing and comes into the forward swing, the putter head is still flowing even though that left hand is staying nice and straight into the finish.

Those are the keys, if you’re really struggling getting wristy, this will really help with that. Get that left hand kind of locked down, get the right hand really close in where it’s a double overlap grip with the thumb close into there together.

Then as you’re following through, keep from the forearm all the way down the putter shaft. You’re going to feel like that is one straight line even though it’s not perfectly straight, you’ll feel like it’s a straight line. Hold that position all the way until the ball rolls out of sight.

That’s really going to help you guys with your putting, going to help you drain more putts, and be a lot more consistent for those of you who are a little too wristy.

Good luck to you guys, follow these tips you’re going to make some more putts. I’ll see you guys soon.

For those of you that are members of the Top Speed Golf System, I want you to go the top of the page, click on Instruction, and then go to the Top Speed Golf System.

If you go in there, we have a putting series. I want you to start working through those drills in the putting series.

Now today we worked on the stroke and eliminating a little bit of the wrist action out of the stroke so you can be more consistent. I have some great videos that are going to help you to control your speed.

There’s actually a certain speed that you need to roll the ball to maximize the size of the cup, start making more putts. If you’ve been lipping out a bunch, that’s going to really help you there.

We’re going to talk about how to get lined up so you can see the line, how to read the putts from as far back as the fairway, and really how to just make a lot more of those clutch putts when you really need them on the big holes coming in toward the end of the round.

So go through those videos from beginning to end, it’s going to walk you through everything you need to know to be a great putter.

Good luck to you guys, see how many of those you can get done this week, and I’ll talk to you guys soon. Play well.