NO ONE TELLS YOU THIS When Picking Golf Grips

Before you buy or regrip your golf clubs, you need to watch this video. Find out why this one thing is so much more important than anyone tells you!

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[JLeeGolf]

Adam you’re the only fitter I’ve seen talk about grip firmness and its importance to this extent

[stanleytomasetti]

This is a highly highly underrated channel

[joef]

Fantastic. I moved from Stiff to Regular during a fitting in October. Clubs arrived with the fairly softish grips I specified, and just never felt right…not like during the fitting. Switched 7iron to a grip similar to what the fitter had in studio, and boom! I’m with you: never even thought about this before.

[spennce]

I have played golf for 40+ years and this explains why I never change the grip type. I have tried softer grips like GP CP2 because I am getting older but immediately realize they change my sensation of the club and this explains that sensation.

[jaxongolf]

Fantastic content and no other club fitters or club makers or repair professionals have spoken of this subject as far as I have ever seen or heard. Great stuff, pal: from a small Somerville, MA golf shop. Cheers!

[felobo]

never would thought about it, and yet, it makes perfect sense. Now I understand than when I added 1 inch to my clubs and put those same harder (and heavier) grips, my clubs felt stiffer and heavy (both static weight and swing weight had increased a lot), so much less easier to swing than before the change

[davidjennings]

All I can say is WOW. In all the years of playing golf I never heard this. Thank you for the video. Makes me want to try it!

[Jeff_Edwards]

Was considering moving from regular to stiff shafts but these makes me think I can just save some cash and regrip to a more firm grip! Awesome explanation!

[roadtoscratchgolf]

AJ, this just proves that fitters need to consider this grip variable when fitting clients, if not, they are not giving you the best fit possible. It’s already tough enough finding a good fitter you can trust who’s not trying to upsell you into some exotic shaft and other add ons, now you have to make sure you’re getting a “full and complete” fitting, which most of us don’t know what that is. It’s a shame that we’re at the mercy of fitters without knowledge. Cheers.

[keithsingleton]

This is VERY interesting! So if I am looking to be something like an R+ on the shaft, I could prob use R and add a firm grip to modify the frequency. For someone like me that is “between” flex (R/S). This would be a way to help tighten up the performance or at least the feel of the shaft. Really great information! Thank you for doing this video. 🎉

[Cryptonomics]

I agree. I already hit my irons fairly high. I bought some softer golf Pride grips early 2023 to hopefully take it easy on the joints of hand, and let me tell you the ball flight was so much dramatically different- TOO HIGH. Like rocket spaceship high and more spin with mid irons. I had to go back to reg Golf Pride justbecause the squishiness as you referred to.. did so much to the flight. So I would recommend softer grips for ppl who struggle with getting the ball airborne.

[Iraqveteran-kequ]

Out of all the grips I’ve tried. I finally tried some cheap ones from Temu and they are absolutely game changing. The best grips I’ve ever had.

[PbD]

I have always used Golf Pride Tour Velvet 360 on my woods and wedges and Golf Pride MCC+4 on my irons. Recently I put the Tour Velvet 360s on my irons and I like the softer feel. The Royal LinkTech and M-Taper 360 grips are the best budget grips out there.

[Lamster]

I've always liked softer grips ( when I played as a kid) didn't realise or had never noticed that the softness or hardness of a grip was a spec you could look up.
I always liked those Swingrite Griprite rubber grips with the "V" pattern on them
I recently started playing again 6 months ago after not playing at all for well over 25 years I literally just re-gripped my cheap Callaway x12 irons with some fake Golf Pride +4s.
They do seem to have made the clubs feel stiffer but I thought I was imagining it.
There's definitely more "Feel" when you shank one.

[marktodd]

Good stuff
The hands work as the vice, so the same club will feel and respond differently with respect to the size of the golfer’s hands. Shorter hands, more flexible, larger hands, stiffer feel. I learned this the hard way when the whole Brunswick cpm shaft measurement system came out. Clubs were being built with different clamp lengths giving different flexibility profiles for the same club. Brunswick was using a 2 1/2” clamp and others used 4 and 5” clamps.
Hopefully some day soon, club fitting will be standardised to fit the golfer and not just sell a set of clubs.

[petegalindez]

FASCINATING! I’ve intuitively figured this out over the years when using different grips, but never considered the reason….this makes perfect sense and one more thing to add to my toolbox!!

[patrickdabs]

Makes sense why some didn’t like the firmer new decade mcc grip with build up tape on the bottom hand on a particular shaft, compared to the same exact shaft in a MCC plus 4, or even the much firmer z cord. I didn’t ever think much about it but it seems obvious now that you brought it to my attention.

In my case the grip rubber in a plus 4 reducing the taper rather than the tape gave me more feel for the loading and unloading of the shaft. It seemed to make tempo and delivery changes from day to day and different ball flights easier to notice and correct vs The firmer grip

[hanshuhta]

Great info . We had a Gem here in Virginia . Mickey Russel would use that machine and built some really great feeling clubs . I now have 2 sets of ZX5s one with pure, and one with golf pride . I’ve been asking qualified folks why one feels different . I think this demonstration showed the “ why behind the what “ .

[badduc]

Wow! I have been into golf for so long and have never even thought of this. Maybe this is why I have never liked soft spongy grips. Glad this came up on my algorithm. I subscribed. Very eye opening info!

[chemistryguy]

Because my hands are bigger than average I had midsize grips on my Callaway Apex forged blades. Wasn't hitting them consistently. Was getting too much variability. Then decided to switch to GolfPride regular size softer grips but they are less tapered than standard. So it's thicker than regular on the lower hand(right). It was like hitting a whole different set of irons. More distance, consistency and I could work the ball either right or left.
The proper grips make a significant difference.