Learn how to choose the proper golf grips for your play-style, skill, and hand size. In this video, golf experts, Bob Lamkin and Brendan Steele, share tips on selecting the right grip for your game. Discover how the construction material, grip size, and other factors can affect your game, and how to maximize your performance with proper fitting and design.
Golf grips provide the only connection between you and the club. The quality of adhesion determines how loose or tight a golfer must hold the club to maintain a solid connection to the club. A tighter grip leads to less club mobility and eventually an improper swing and shot. Learn how the pros determine which grip is right for them, and how to apply those lessons to improve your own game.
You can view the full range of available materials, sizes, designs and colors to find the perfect grip to improve your game. Visit Lamkin.com to learn more!
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Bob: In our development at Lamkin and especially over the last few years, we’ve really centered our attention on developing functional materials that help really achieve what you want in a golf grip. Recently in the last three years we’ve developed our ace materials that, with the whole idea of putting together a grip that it gives you the tackiness that you want, it gives you the feel, the surface pattern, right?
And the performance characteristics when you’re in a tight situation and you have to hit a good shot and what we want to be able to do with our ace materials, whether it’s in our UTAs, our new Wrap Tech grip that’s coming out this year as well, is to be able to give you the confidence that you’re going to have. I’m a big believer in tension from the elbow down, very light tension, and if you have that, and I think about it all the time when I’m playing, if I have this light grip with this light tension but I know it’s secure, it’s going to allow me to do a couple things. Get to my right side especially when I’m older. I mean, I’m a plus 50 player. My hips, you get a little tight, right? So I want to be able to have my arms moving a little bit faster and still have control of the grip, getting to my right side and getting to my left side. Would you agree with that kind of philosophy that we’re having?
Brendan: Yes, definitely. Tension is the biggest killer in golf and whenever you hit a shot where maybe you’re a little bit uncomfortable whether you’re trying to beat your buddy out of five dollars or somebody’s watching you tee off on the first hole or you’re trying to win a major, the tension creeps in even without you knowing it and it can really be a killer in your golf game. So you want to have a grip that is firm enough but also soft enough that you can have light pressure and still have control of the club.
