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Old August 21st, 2008, 04:22 AM
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I need new grips...

I need new grips…
I need to regrip…I’m about 9 months in on my current grips which have held up surprisingly well considering that I play and practice more than a little bit…I love new grips…means that I can hold the club more lightly and my distances increase, but what I don’t like is the down time that usually lasts about three days from when I drop them off to pickup…I’m just whining here…I have a second set that the grips are fairly new that I can play while the others are in the shop, but they are the backup set for a reason…

Anyway, the point of the thread is to get everyone’s grip of choice out on the table…interesting to see some of the whys in well examined grip selections as well as those who just play whatever the clubs came with…

Currently, I have Golf Pride full cord with two underwrap and rib on my backups, and Golf Pride Tour Velvet two underwrap with rib on my first set…Driver has the tour velvet with the alignment markings on it (some kind of special name but that’ll do), and everything else is like the first set save for my out of rotation clubs and the two wedges that I played today, both of which need to be fitted like the first set as one is a GP Player’s softie with three underwraps (the so called “correct” size for my hand…too big IMO and that’s what counts) and no rib, and the other wedge has the proprietary grip that came with the club which is a tour velvet with no wrap and a rib…club is still relatively new and I wanted to play it immediately after purchase and never got around to fitting it since it has been pretty good thus far…

I like both the grips that I have, lean towards the tour velvet though…I also liked the GP multicompound grip, the DD2, and the Iomic grips which I’ve either tested a single grip or tried on another set…the Iomic is cost prohibitive though…at 16bucks a grip I feel like they should throw in a car wash or a tshirt…

My putters I use a Winn Grip on the Yes (similar to what came with the club…can’t remember the code…AGV?), the original on the new Betttinardi (really nice actually…a little larger with defined edges and still in “new” condition…prior owner didn’t play it too much it would seem)…I have a couple of putters gripped with Golf Pride standard putter grips…like those too and might regrip the Yes in that next time…

Equipment can be a game in and of itself…
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