Rocco Mediate remembered the chuckles and the verbal barbs from his peers when he first used a long putter 12 years ago. He didn’t care because standing more upright reduced the pain in his back, ...

Rocco Mediate was ahead of his time. And he wasn't afraid to look goofy. That set him apart from most other professional golfers. It also made him a trendsetter. And now, looking back on it, it is ...

You probably missed this at the recent Masters: Sergio Garcia became the first player to win a major championship using the “claw” putting grip. The claw would’ve been a winner even if Garcia had lost ...

If you are at all like me and have been playing golf almost your whole life, you probably notice that your putting skills wane as you have gotten older or at best you become hot and really cold from ...

The claw is an unorthodox grip that an ever growing number of players on the PGA Tour use to cure their putting woes. And now that the rules make it illegal to anchor the putter to your body, the claw ...

Phil Mickelson is one of the greatest putters to ever live, and he has been known to switch up his mechanics from time to time. When Mickelson felt like he was striking the ball too hard on the greens ...

The claw putter grip maintains relatively low usage on the PGA TOUR, but over the last few years, a number of notable players have tried the grip that was popularized by former winner Chris DiMarco, ...

Welcome to another edition of Yo, Gear Guy!, an interactive GOLF.com series in which our resident dimplehead (a.k.a., GOLF’s deputy editor of equipment, Mike Chwasky) fields your hard-hitting ...

In response to questions received about the claw putting grip, John Higgins, director of sales and SPi instructor at SeeMore, joins "The Putting Couch" co-hosts Jim Grundberg and Ted Gallina to take a ...

Recently, a “claw grip” craze has been sweeping among amateur golfers. In English, it is called the claw grip, and is also known as the pencil grip. The word “claw” refers to the talon of a bird or ...

In golf there are two really bad words. Words that are unspeakable. Not curse words. Regular, ordinary words that make professional golfers quake in their soft spikes or nubs. One starts with an S and ...