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Profile of Henry William 'Harry' Vardon (Conclusion)

Related Topics: Harry Vardon, Johnny Laidlay, Golf

Part two of two on golf legend Harry Vardon (1870-1937). Read Part 1.

Copyright © John Coyne. Used with permission.
WE KNOW HARRY VARDON BEST for his overlapping grip. Some accounts have it first being used by Johnny Laidlay, a champion Scottish amateur player. J. H. Taylor also used it before Vardon, but it was Vardon, who played with the grip in 1890s, who popularized it.
The grip is the most common used one today, that and the interlock grip. As we know with the Vardon grip the right little finger overlaps the left index finger.