This most often overlooked piece of the golf club is every bit as important as the shaft or the head. In this video I show you various ways to decide what size grip will fit you and be best for your game.
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Hi AJ, hope you're well. As always, great informative content. Thank you, regards from New Zealand!
AJ great explanation of grip sizing. Did you happen to see the Bryson video with John Daly. JD makes the claim that most amateur players would benefit from larger grips. He makes the claim that they loose control of the club at the top of the swing and with larger grips they can maintain control. Was always told that people should avoid oversized grips unless that they have large hands. Exception being arthritic issues. Bryson prefers oversized grips. Dynamic testing makes sense.
I’m at 8’ and have midsize grips but I have the marks you talk about on my grips. So do I need to take jump grip? I think I will lose some club speed with jumbo grip.
Thanks for this video. I've always thought of myself as having tiny hands. I wear an ML though and have chronic tendonitis in my outer left wrist along with some carpal tunnel symptoms. The original wrist injury where I hit a tree root in some long rough, kept me away from golf for more than three years. Then I had another accident after that with a broken hand and torn ACL which extended that for a couple of years more. I was scratch before the wrist injury and playing the best golf of my life. I just started trying to play again. It seems the more I try to practice and play, the more that wrist pain wants to come back to visit. It seems like it's time for me to experiment with some larger grips. I also noticed my 7 iron, which I practice the most with, has a wear spot under the left thumb.
According to your scale – at 7.6” should take a mid-size grip, BUT as a mechanic who used hardened tools regularly – my jumbos give me a better feel without feeling like I need to hold on to the club or like it will slip out of my hand.
Always educational…of course I know you were speaking in generalities…I would offer a few other points on grip size…from testing I’ve done and other tests I’ve seen done that have concluded/found no discernible difference in ball flight related to grip size, I have two theories…Those who do see a change in ball flight is for one of two reasons: 1. The swing weight of the club has changed…even though that weight is predominantly in the hands, it still has an effect on your swing. A smaller grip is usually lighter and a larger grip heavier…which could account for the ball flight changes; and 2. I posit it’s not a smaller grip or larger grip that is the main cause of being able to turn your hands over or not but rather how hard you are gripping the club. If you have a choke hold on the club, you will have a restricted rotation, regardless of grip size. Grip size doesn’t seem to affect me at all…I have a straight ball flight with an occasional small draw. I actually like to feel the connection between the hands and the club and will change grip sizes throughout the season from regular, plus 4, to medium sized grips…swap them out about once every other month…helps me feel more connected to the club and doesn’t affect my swing. I found grips that are all within a gram or two of each other at the different sizes.
glove size does not tell you anything.. I do not like gloves that fit like a 2nd skin, my hand size is 7.5 inch and I wear small or medium gloves depending on the real feel size. with my 7.5 inch I like midsize grips but sometimes the but end of the shaft is thicker and in this case the midsize is to much and I step down to standard and 2-3 build tapes
I love you channel and you channel. How ever … your statement around that feel is in the end the guide I do agree.
How ever … in general grips in golf are due to evolution of epuipement and culture to thin.
Biomechanics should always prevail and with that the normal and even mid should never be sold anymore.
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I would to know if a softer grip is better for someone with hand pains. Thanks
AJ for content removing standard wedge shaft and using graphite shafts. I could never understand how people discussed feel when the shaft is so stiff.
I recently tested my sons budget Texan wedges and was shocked at the feel factor difference over standard 130gram dynamic gold shafts. To hole 2 wedge shots in 18 holes is a message!
So today I have pulled all the wedge shafts and fitted graphite Reg flex shafts ( spares i had on the shelf) 🤞🤞
I was told by a fitter that your finger tips should just touch the base of your thumb when holding the club. You have many more good tips, thank you
My measurement is 7" but I wear a cadet small glove. I have square hands but short fingers. What size is best?
Great insight. Wish you were located in the Tampa Area.
AJ, good advice, but what about wrapping your hand around grips and seeing where your fingers touch your palm. Isn’t this the best way to get the correct grip size? After all, aren’t grip manufacturers sizes slightly different? Cheers.
My measure is 7.5 inches and I feel more comfortable and strike ball ball much better with my jumbo size grip on the driver and all my iron are mid size.. Like you said the number 6 for me it more about the feeling
Great video. I have been down the grip rabbit hole. Easy to do when you do your own grips. I play with a large glove and landed on the Jumbomax XL. Elbow pain went away immediately. I think all golfers in the future will transition to bigger grips.
I’ve tried midsize grips and yes push the ball right, so while my hands are big I use standard grips.
My hand measured 7.5 inch but my fingers are shorter than my palm. This is the reason they sell ML golf gloves. I personally used standard grip to the top and build up the bottom with four layers. It reduced the taper grip look and gives me a better feel. I hold the club a lot with my finger. Thanks for the video and enjoy them all.
Great Info videos . I would like to see some video on putters weight,why some guys are using long putters but they griped down
8" measurement – std grip with a 2 way miss – the timing of this video is uncanny as I've been diving down this rabbit hole again and going to upsize my grips
I am a natural fader/slicer. If I put on Jumbomax Lite grips on because of the heavier swing weight would that promote more of a straight/draw shot?
Excellent information! I loved the golf glove to grip size chart.
GP TV +4 2- 5" wraps under left hand 1- wrap under right hand. This is the perfect set up for me. Experiment with one club to get the right size before you grip your entire set.
Perfectly informative video as always! I’m in between right at 7.5 inches/squeeze into a medium glove, and use a standard grip with 3 total wraps of tape to make it right in between standard and midsized. Truth be told, I don’t mind the size of a midsize grip, but I don’t like the extra rubber “squishyness” and then don’t like the 6 wraps under a standard grip. You just have to do a ton of tinkering on your own to find what’s best for you.
I played when I was a kid and in my teens over 40 years ago and only took the game up again last year.
ironically Standard grip always felt right to me. I bought an old set of beaten up Callaway X12s very cheap from eBay ( just in case the reason I haven't played for 40 years became apparent when I started to play again)
Obviously for the price they were dinged and bashed and the grips were done!
I removed all the Dings and buffed them up. As a new set of Grips would have cost several times what I'd paid for the clubs and exceeded their worth I opted for some Fake golf Pride standard +4s. Initially I thought I'd messed up as it totally changed the feel of the clubs. But after a couple of rounds and a couple of range sessions I think I prefer them.
Yes the Fake Grips aren't quite as soft and compliment as genuine GP grips but the actual feel of where my hands are and how round the club feels in each hand is pretty good.
Heavier oversize grips turns out to work for me.
I couldn’t really decide what size grip I wanted so I took 3 clubs and re-gripped them with a standard mcc grip, standard mcc +4 grip and a midsize mcc +4 grip.
Then I went to the range and used the three clubs to figure out which one I felt the most comfortable with. It ended up being the standard MCC +4 grips.
funny video to get recommended seeing as I have some Jumbomax ultralite smalls coming in to replace on all my clubs today
I’m between midsize and Jumbo. Midsize feels too small and Jumbo feels too big. Ugh. lol.
Hi AJ. Have you ever done experiments doing one length in woods.?
No matter a grip it deals with grip pressure which happens to make a small grip push more and larger grip draw more due to overcompensating…
Shouldn’t your judge of grip size be what feels most comfortable to you and provides good control results.
Extremely helpful, Thanks so much!!!
Good information…thanks. More questions…Do you ever swingweight putters? And does it matter? I recently put a player in a 15 gram heavier driver shaft, same clubhead speed but picked up 2.5 mph in ball speed. Your input is appreciated.
So my hand length according to you, I'm 8.25" but wear an xl glove. I actually just upgraded a bunch of my clubs to jumbos before I saw this because standards were making my hands sore and felt too small. I liked the way jumbo felt over the medium.
I’m about an 8.75” and XXL glove. I currently have tour velvet midsize. I feel like I could go up a size but all the jumbo grips weigh 13-25g more than my current ones. Won’t that affect swing weight? Maybe not enough to notice? Is adding tape a lesser weight option? I feel like I really need more wraps on the bottom hand with my irons since I tend to overdraw.
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. I’m 8” and play midsize +4 with 2 wraps. My miss is always left. I wanted to play jumbo, but thought they will feel heavy and too big.
How do you manage swing weight with the different sizes of grips?
Hi Adam, Thank you for the great video and all the other great videos you post. In terms of grip size, depending on grip brand and layers of tape, what is the general "circumference" of a standard grip, and is it with only one layer of tape? Is a grip the same size, or does it vary depending on the thickness of the grip? If you cut a grip, is the diameter the same as that of a Lamkin grip vs Golf Pride grip if you measure it in the same place?…….. Perhaps grips vary and should be defined by diameter in inches/cm, like shaft flex. S flex in one shaft is not similar to s flex in another shaft.
Could do, or a average between driver and 5 wood