Brian Manzella, the Golf Magazine Top100 Teacher, recently did a video about the putting grip change Billy Horschel and his teacher Todd Anderson made just before the 2nd FedExCup Playoff event. One thing this video does is show how misleading a simple instruction can be, and Brian does everybody a favor by showing us exactly what Billy's new grip actually looks like.
As you can see, when Billy "separated his hands" on his putter grip, he didn't actually make a split grip where there's a space between his hands. Rather, he now uses what I call a "10-finger" grip -- the hands aren't really separated, he just doesn't overlap any of his fingers anymore.
Billy's grip is a crosshand (lead hand low) grip -- in view that Billy is proper-exceeded, which means his left hand is lower at the shaft than his right -- and his left pinky touches however would not overlap his proper index finger. With more fingers at the grip, he says it is less complicated to feel the putter. (I'd say that is due to the fact, with more arms on the grip, you don't need to grip as tightly to preserve control. A lighter contact equals better sense.)
Brian additionally advises training long putts (further to short putts and tap-ins) to assist your distance manage. Makes sense to me!
On the outside danger the video failed to embed, here's the hyperlink to the unique.
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