The other day I was thinking what if the MONGOOSE GOLF SWING grip technique were the conventional gripping technique? What if everyone in the world was gripping their clubs with my separated hands technique? Would I have the slightest chance of converting them back to the Vardon? Never! I would be tagged a lunatic. Well - back to reality. My gripping technique is not being used by everyone in the world.
With any grip where the fingers are touching or overlapping - the hands and fingers get weaker. Right-handers are taught to squeeze tighter with the little finger and ring finger of their left hand - and tighter with the forefinger and thumb of the right hand. Essentially a 4-finger grip - which explains why the big hitters grip comes unhinged on any given drive or when they’re trying to muscle a shot.
When you separate your hands - you have a 10-finger grip (if we’re allowed to call the thumb a finger). And rather than having to squeeze tighter with a couple of fingers - I recommend a very light gripping action. Like someone learning to fence - you might hear this - “Think of holding a bird. Hold it tight enough so it won’t fly away. And not so tight you kill it.”
LOSING FINGERS AND FEEL
My grandfather lost two fingers to industrial accidents. He was a machinist using primitive take-no-prisoners equipment as early as 1904. He always said that when he lost his fingers - he could no longer feel himself moving around in the world. I never got it. Never knew what he was trying to teach me. Years later --- I was walking down a winding road in Oregon and it hit me. He spoke like a blind man who feels his way through the world. Seems that even though we can see with our literal eyes - we do far more feeling our way through life with our fingers and hands than we realize. And only when we lose a finger or two do we become aware of how important they are to our existence.

Every artist - makes art with his or her fingers and hands. Wonderful things that they are. Hands and fingers built the world. Years ago I had the opportunity to talk at length with a neurosurgeon about the brain and the nerves - etc. He said something that just floored me. “Our whole body - every square inch of it - is our brain. The 3-pound mass located in our skull is simply the nucleus. The operating system as it were. We get a tiny splinter in a tiny toe and it becomes the dominate thing in our life until we fix it” (or words to that effect).