![Harry Vardon golf grip, showing right hand too far under encouraging golfer to roll wrists and hook ball Stock Photo - Alamy Harry Vardon golf grip, showing right hand too far under encouraging golfer to roll wrists and hook ball Stock Photo - Alamy](https://l450v.alamy.com/450v/2e11b8p/1970s-historical-outside-on-a-grass-verge-by-a-putting-green-a-senior-male-golf-professional-showing-a-young-amateur-male-golfer-who-is-holding-the-golf-club-the-vardon-grip-also-known-as-the-overlapping-grip-named-after-lengendary-golfer-harry-vardon-a-six-time-open-champion-to-play-the-game-of-golf-well-the-correct-grip-is-important-note-the-clothes-of-the-long-haired-young-man-who-is-wearing-a-shirt-and-a-kipper-tie-and-flair-trousers-of-the-era-2e11b8p.jpg)
Harry Vardon golf grip, showing right hand too far under encouraging golfer to roll wrists and hook ball Stock Photo - Alamy
![Henry William (Harry) Vardon (1870-1937), professional golfer from Jersey. He was famous for the Vardon Grip, an overlapping grip which he appears to be using here. Date: 1926 Stock Photo - Alamy Henry William (Harry) Vardon (1870-1937), professional golfer from Jersey. He was famous for the Vardon Grip, an overlapping grip which he appears to be using here. Date: 1926 Stock Photo - Alamy](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/G3C7KY/henry-william-harry-vardon-1870-1937-professional-golfer-from-jersey-G3C7KY.jpg)
Henry William (Harry) Vardon (1870-1937), professional golfer from Jersey. He was famous for the Vardon Grip, an overlapping grip which he appears to be using here. Date: 1926 Stock Photo - Alamy
![Harry Vardon: Golf's First International Superstar Who Remains The Most Successful Open Championship Player Of All Time | Golf | TheSportsman Harry Vardon: Golf's First International Superstar Who Remains The Most Successful Open Championship Player Of All Time | Golf | TheSportsman](https://www.thesportsman.com/media/images/admin/darts/original/HarryVardonpng.png)
Harry Vardon: Golf's First International Superstar Who Remains The Most Successful Open Championship Player Of All Time | Golf | TheSportsman
![U.S. Open on X: "In 1900 Harry Vardon won the #USOpen, and on this day in 1870 he was born. https://t.co/nL9dRGOJhs" / X U.S. Open on X: "In 1900 Harry Vardon won the #USOpen, and on this day in 1870 he was born. https://t.co/nL9dRGOJhs" / X](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXlp89iWsAEzpL6.jpg:large)