Overlapping grip advantages

[Bigwill]

Today I was doing some chipping and some short swings ( about thigh-high to follow-through ), and I discovered that I was able to maintain my alignments better with an overlapping grip than the interlocking one I'd switched to. I also got rid of the fat and thin contact. With interlocking, it took a great deal of effort to prevent throwaway; with the overlap, it's the exact opposite. I also went back to extending my right index finger down the shaft, something I was told not to do. It's something that I got away from, because the better players I know all have their index fingers close to the middle one and wrapped around the grip, and they use the interlock.