March 2 (Reuters) - Rory McIlroy will experiment with a new putting grip, with his left hand placed below the right, at this week's WGC-Cadillac Championship in Miami after struggling on the greens and missing the cut in his previous PGA Tour start.
The Northern Irish world number three says he has used the unconventional cross-handed grip a lot in recent years as a putting drill and felt the time had come to test it out in competition.
"Over the past few weeks my right hand was becoming a little bit too dominant, so I practised over the weekend, just with left below right and it felt really, really good," McIlroy told reporters at Doral on Wednesday while preparing for Thursday's opening round.