Alex, this one of the most informative videos on this topic. I used the Ping grip chart and directions, and found out that I should have standard grips. All my irons had mid-size grips, and I was struggling to get the clubs into my fingers like your other videos talk about. Had my local proshop change out all my grips, went to the range, and began hitting pure and further shots! Thank you for all that you do as your training videos have been a huge help!
Excellent explanation. I have always used standard wrap and I too use a small glove. I'm 67 now and I went to a regular flex Ping iron with the Elevate shafts. they are soft in regular and with a standard grip it feels tiny and hard to hold on to. The Tour Velvet +4 grip is freaking amazing. I did a test with standard +4 and midsize +4 and the midsize was the winner. My ball striking and power were both better. By the way, the tour velvet is so much better than the wrap because the wrap slips when wet from rain or sweat. Love your work young dude, keep it up.
Great video. Just bought new irons two months ago. Grips felt great and clubs were amazing. Loving the feel of the new grips. Then got a wedge set from Costco and though I like the wedges, can’t stand the grips. Feel so small in my hands and uncomfortable for my arthritis. Just changed to the MCC Plus 4 Midsize. WOW!! The difference is so amazing. Probably changing out all of the new grips now. And from your video, I can see that likely all of my grips on the irons are probably too small for me. I’ve watched many videos on grip sizing before but yours is just a better explanation, easier to understand and demonstrates better (to me at least) what a proper and more comfortable grip fit should be. Thanks again.
Alex I have spent a lot of money on grips over the last couple of year, bigger medium and regular sizes, what I have found is I play to my handicap and win with the smaller regular size grip, I find I can feel where the head of the club is with less weight in the grip
I use Winn Dry Tac Oversize. I am a senior and the comfort is why. I wear a cadet medium large glove, my hands are slightly large, but my finders are shorter. I selected the Winn Dry Tac due to the weight of the grip which is 50 grams. That is the same weight as most standard size grips so it does not change the swing weight of the club. As an example Lamkin Crossline Oversize grips weight 73 grams and that would change the swing weight of your club from D2 to C7.
Great video Alex, I needed new grips and switched to a larger grip, I wear a M-L glove. After replacing with the larger grips I found myself pushing the ball more right and in the summer with my right hand more sweaty I was not able to keep my right hand on the club. I just installed standard grips today and will be trying them over the weekend, I can definitely grip the club better.
Wow, what a lovely video! I’m just thinking about re-gripping with Super Stroke Traxions. I don’t have arthritis but I’m 70, so I think I’ll upsize one step. Thx Alex!
Very interesting. To be sure the best is to do a fitting. I did it with Titleist Ping and Taylormade. The three of them said medium size which took me by surprise because I have small hands and I’m using medium gloves. Indeed the results are amazing.
Excellent topic. I never really thought about it, but I am sure it plays a major role in a person's grip. I will be thinking about this in the future purchases of club grips.
Hey Alex, next up shaft length please. I play 1 inch shorter clubs for example and have much more accuracy, while hardly didnt lose any distance because I could turn much better through the shot. Definitely overlooked piece in the golfing puzzle. Cheers for the video as always!
Great video Alex! I’m starting to have arthritis in my right hand so I went to a medium Winn Dri-Tec and find that it is more comfortable, especially with miss hits. My next move will be to the non-tapered 4-4 grips to help with the right hand. Many thanks from an older guy!
I have the golf pride tour velvet plus 4 midsize and it makes the grip so much more comfortable that a normal size, not to mention the plus 4 model has less taper which I found helped me out a lot as well
I found that the dri tac grips really wore out fast. I needed larger grips so I ordered Alien pro wraps that wrap over any grip. Have been using them. I put two or three of these over my medium grips and they are just the right thickness. They hardly ever wear out and so cost-effective to replace. I have had the same for over a year and when I replace it, I only have to replace the top wrap not the one or two underneath. Very cost-effective and very comfortable. They don't slip in my hand. Perfect!
Been using Golf Pride Tour Velvet Standard. Put a Multi Compound w/some cord on my driver last summer for sweaty hands. Great video as always Alex, Cheers!
I am using Enlow grips with the following specs: Grip Dimensions - Backweighted/Reverse Tape with Butt Diameter of 1"/2.5cm Grip Weight - 148 grams Grip Color - Black Bottom Tip Diameter - 1.5"/3.6cm
I'm currently trying JumboMax grips due to arthritis in my hands/fingers. To be honest I'm currently trying all 3 sizes, medium, large and extra large. I haven't quite figured out which one works best yet. Looking forward to watching the rest of your video. Thanks for the excellent video on this.
Brian -- I have one XL and the rest are L; I really can't tell the difference between the 2...reminds me of how an aluminum baseball bat used to feel (in my glory days...)
@@dano0726 Thx for your reply. Question for you: Do your fingers wrap around and touch the meaty part of your hand as Alex suggests? Mine don't, so I'm wondering if that's going to be a huge problem.
Stock Taylormade Lampkin Grips. They are far too small. I am going to order some Champkey Oversize grips and regrip all my clubs. The standard grip seems to make me have a stronger grip. Means more hitting left.
Biggest change in my golf I went from standard to jumbo (I wear xl gloves and there tight) stopped my two way miss straight away then got lessons to help the one way miss 🤣😂
Golfpride midsize multicompound grips with an extra layer of tape driver - pw, then same grips but standard layer of tape on the wedges, pistolini grip with the putter
As always Alex, great video, something I will look into as I am going for a fitting with Cobra in a couple of weeks, still not sure if one length will suit me, maybe OL up to 7 iron then normal length to SW
Hi Alex. Thanks a lot for all your help. Sorry I'm not English, and I think you talk about PDF I'd be really interested in but I'm unable to find it on TH-cam. Any extra tip. Thanks
Which grip brand and type would you recommend for older (>60y) players with arthrosis in their finger joints or with a trigger finger? My normal grip size is regular. I was once recommended Winn DryTac Lite by a USA golf fitter.
@@dano0726 👍Agreed I used to feel like strangling the club and no give in the grip feels like it’s effortless with the hands and also stops me twisting the face over so much where I used to get handy . I no older people that use them a lot . I’m 32 but big hands .
Alex another great video my friend! Couple things. I watched a video of a club fitter that said "most" tour players with the exception of a few tend to use a standard size grip but w/ +4 reduce taper option or more + wraps under the right hand. Is that general statistic true? Also if a player feels like they lose grip control (grip slightly slips or spins slightly in hands at top of swing) once they reach the top of the swing in anyway what would you attribute that symptom to mostly? If how they are gripping the club in their hands is correct, and the backswing is ok can the wrong grip size create this issue?
I can't believe how expensive grips are now and they don't seem to last long . Thanks for showing how to work out the correct size grip you need since I'm having a nightmare with grips at the moment. Because of the winter my skin gets hard and I'm always getting cuts on the right hand fingers!
Ah huh, I suspected I needed larger grips especially after seeing Bryson's friggin cricket bat handles lol. Don't think I've ever seen a vid explain it like this though. Nice work. I know my hands are a bit bigger than the average and I wear an extra large glove. I don't have arthritis so much, a little bit, but what I do have is carpal tunnel like a mo fo and I thought it might help with that. If I play and practise too much like I have been the last few months my hands go numb as fuck when I'm sleeping and wake up aching like a bastard sometimes then my hands are like half numb the rest of the day. Got an appointment to see the surgeon in a few weeks so hopefully he can bloody sort it out so i can play more. I remember why I quit playing golf for like 10 years now. I thought it was my knackered back but it was fucked up hands. They had to wait until I bought a new set of M6's to remind me though lol. They don't say what size, but I suspect they're standards. Anyway, looks like it might be time to go see the man at the pro shop.
have small hands, but using large grips for arthritis. Why do you say that large grips will affect release. Look at baseball players, tennis players etc. all with very large grips! Don't you think that small grips allow you to flip the club more. I thought that we all should delay the release and I think that the large grips help. Your comments on this would be appreciated
Great vid as always 👍 question: fat fingers? I wear a large glove but can’t, with std grips, get them closed as much as you describe. I do find I lose the club in my grip at the top sometimes, it’s not always stable, but I do grip in fingers and not palm. But have sausage fingers...should I go smaller? Ping G clubs and grips.
Biggest ball of crap is that clubs came with such small grips for so long. I bet if you looked back, the best players had small hands. All my life I struggled holding on to a club because the standard grip was so small. Yeah I used two, three layers of tape but that was a bandaid. Now that I can actually hold onto a club, what a difference! Even finding gloves is hard. I wear an XXL glove and I always go to shops and ask why they don't have men's sizes 🤣🤣
my 2nd fitter at dicks pointed this out today..after I got fitted with pxg for $5000 from 1st fitter,,,,ughhh went from pxg's to rogue x's in a midsize grip
What grips are you using on your clubs right now?
Golf Pride Tour Velvet and Winn Dry Tac
Golf pride tour velvet size 5L
Mid size.. Golf Pride Align...
Golf Pride MCC Plus4, standard size
Tour Velvet +4 midsize
I'm using small gloves, just switched to a golf pride wrap grip in undersize, and it's helping my drives go straighter
Alex, this one of the most informative videos on this topic. I used the Ping grip chart and directions, and found out that I should have standard grips. All my irons had mid-size grips, and I was struggling to get the clubs into my fingers like your other videos talk about.
Had my local proshop change out all my grips, went to the range, and began hitting pure and further shots!
Thank you for all that you do as your training videos have been a huge help!
Thanks I’m in the process of getting new clubs and grips. I like the information on arthritis cheers
Great video. As I get older (I'm 67) I find what you have said to be true and has given me more food for thought. Well done.
Excellent explanation. I have always used standard wrap and I too use a small glove. I'm 67 now and I went to a regular flex Ping iron with the Elevate shafts. they are soft in regular and with a standard grip it feels tiny and hard to hold on to. The Tour Velvet +4 grip is freaking amazing. I did a test with standard +4 and midsize +4 and the midsize was the winner. My ball striking and power were both better. By the way, the tour velvet is so much better than the wrap because the wrap slips when wet from rain or sweat. Love your work young dude, keep it up.
Great video. Just bought new irons two months ago. Grips felt great and clubs were amazing. Loving the feel of the new grips. Then got a wedge set from Costco and though I like the wedges, can’t stand the grips. Feel so small in my hands and uncomfortable for my arthritis. Just changed to the MCC Plus 4 Midsize. WOW!! The difference is so amazing. Probably changing out all of the new grips now.
And from your video, I can see that likely all of my grips on the irons are probably too small for me. I’ve watched many videos on grip sizing before but yours is just a better explanation, easier to understand and demonstrates better (to me at least) what a proper and more comfortable grip fit should be. Thanks again.
Thanks so much jack! Appreciate this and it’s good to hear your comments!!
Hi I’ve got large hands and just changed to golf pride mid size grips and it’s been a real game changer, wished I’d done it years ago.
Golf Pride MCC 4 with 2 layers of tape. I like the feel of the cord.
Alex I have spent a lot of money on grips over the last couple of year, bigger medium and regular sizes, what I have found is I play to my handicap and win with the smaller regular size grip, I find I can feel where the head of the club is with less weight in the grip
This is something that isnt really talked about that makes a huge difference..great video!!
I agree! I think it’s so important to get it right!
My golf fitter worked with me on day 1: Golf Pride Mid-sized MCC Plus4
Love it
Good choice.. if you like them buy extra set.. they are kinda hard to find and price going UP...
I use jumbo max XL and I find them quite comfortable, but it did require a change in my swing
Golf Pride Tour Velvet plus 4 midsize
Nice what colour have you gone???
I have the black one
Haven't thought of grip size before this video opened my eyes 😊.
Thank you! It’s really important please consider this
Game golf pride standard grips for 20 years. Got new clubs and re-sized with midsize pure grips and they are amazing.
I use Winn Dry Tac Oversize. I am a senior and the comfort is why. I wear a cadet medium large glove, my hands are slightly large, but my finders are shorter. I selected the Winn Dry Tac due to the weight of the grip which is 50 grams. That is the same weight as most standard size grips so it does not change the swing weight of the club. As an example Lamkin Crossline Oversize grips weight 73 grams and that would change the swing weight of your club from D2 to C7.
Great video Alex, I needed new grips and switched to a larger grip, I wear a M-L glove. After replacing with the larger grips I found myself pushing the ball more right and in the summer with my right hand more sweaty I was not able to keep my right hand on the club. I just installed standard grips today and will be trying them over the weekend, I can definitely grip the club better.
Wow, what a lovely video! I’m just thinking about re-gripping with Super Stroke Traxions. I don’t have arthritis but I’m 70, so I think I’ll upsize one step. Thx Alex!
Thank you great to hear that you enjoyed the video!!
Very interesting. To be sure the best is to do a fitting. I did it with Titleist Ping and Taylormade. The three of them said medium size which took me by surprise because I have small hands and I’m using medium gloves. Indeed the results are amazing.
Excellent topic. I never really thought about it, but I am sure it plays a major role in a person's grip. I will be thinking about this in the future purchases of club grips.
Thank you Wayne - great to hear that you enjoyed the video today!
I wear a xxl glove. I use jumbo grips. Golf pride.
Hey Alex, next up shaft length please. I play 1 inch shorter clubs for example and have much more accuracy, while hardly didnt lose any distance because I could turn much better through the shot. Definitely overlooked piece in the golfing puzzle. Cheers for the video as always!
How tall are you? I feel like I should be playing shorter clubs but have never been fitted. Just a big price gamble haha
5ft 8 or 174cm. I'd like to play shorter club but never tried it
Great video Alex! I’m starting to have arthritis in my right hand so I went to a medium Winn Dri-Tec and find that it is more comfortable, especially with miss hits. My next move will be to the non-tapered 4-4 grips to help with the right hand. Many thanks from an older guy!
Thank you great to hear you like the video!
I think that sounds like a great move!!
I have the golf pride tour velvet plus 4 midsize and it makes the grip so much more comfortable that a normal size, not to mention the plus 4 model has less taper which I found helped me out a lot as well
Thanks Alex. Great grip tips.
I use the golf pride cp2 standard but am switching to the mcc 4 with no taper as I find I’m gripping too firm in order to hold the club
I'm a former basketball player and I can easily grip a basketball , so I'm using the lamkin cross jumbo grips
I found that the dri tac grips really wore out fast. I needed larger grips so I ordered Alien pro wraps that wrap over any grip. Have been using them. I put two or three of these over my medium grips and they are just the right thickness. They hardly ever wear out and so cost-effective to replace. I have had the same for over a year and when I replace it, I only have to replace the top wrap not the one or two underneath. Very cost-effective and very comfortable. They don't slip in my hand. Perfect!
Been using Golf Pride Tour Velvet Standard. Put a Multi Compound w/some cord on my driver last summer for sweaty hands. Great video as always Alex, Cheers!
heard a lot of people using these!! And you are welcome
Great advice will certainly use it
Thank you
I am using Enlow grips with the following specs: Grip Dimensions - Backweighted/Reverse Tape with Butt Diameter of 1"/2.5cm
Grip Weight - 148 grams
Grip Color - Black
Bottom Tip Diameter - 1.5"/3.6cm
Thank you for sharing Scott what gloves do you wear
I'm currently trying JumboMax grips due to arthritis in my hands/fingers. To be honest I'm currently trying all 3 sizes, medium, large and extra large. I haven't quite figured out which one works best yet. Looking forward to watching the rest of your video. Thanks for the excellent video on this.
Brian -- I have one XL and the rest are L; I really can't tell the difference between the 2...reminds me of how an aluminum baseball bat used to feel (in my glory days...)
I hope this helped your Brian??
@@dano0726 Thx for your reply. Question for you: Do your fingers wrap around and touch the meaty part of your hand as Alex suggests? Mine don't, so I'm wondering if that's going to be a huge problem.
@@AlexElliottGolf Thx Alex. Any advice helps.
Stock Taylormade Lampkin Grips. They are far too small. I am going to order some Champkey Oversize grips and regrip all my clubs.
The standard grip seems to make me have a stronger grip. Means more hitting left.
Biggest change in my golf I went from standard to jumbo (I wear xl gloves and there tight) stopped my two way miss straight away then got lessons to help the one way miss 🤣😂
Golf pride MCC plus 4 midsize. I struggled for a while to figure out the correct size.
Golfpride midsize multicompound grips with an extra layer of tape driver - pw, then same grips but standard layer of tape on the wedges, pistolini grip with the putter
yeah i have heard a lot of people using these
@@AlexElliottGolf great in the wet, and living in England it's helpful
As always Alex, great video, something I will look into as I am going for a fitting with Cobra in a couple of weeks, still not sure if one length will suit me, maybe OL up to 7 iron then normal length to SW
Hi Alex.
Thanks a lot for all your help.
Sorry I'm not English, and I think you talk about PDF I'd be really interested in but I'm unable to find it on TH-cam.
Any extra tip.
Thanks
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Which grip brand and type would you recommend for older (>60y) players with arthrosis in their finger joints or with a trigger finger? My normal grip size is regular. I was once recommended Winn DryTac Lite by a USA golf fitter.
I would say a little thinkers midsize pluss4 is a great option 🙌🏼🙌🏼
@@AlexElliottGolf Thanks ! Great video, there are so many choices!
Jumbo max xl ultra light series . All clubs but wedges now have them on .
Pitch jumbo max actually , gap and 60 ,56 . Normal size
I've got JumboMax Ultralites on everything (XL and L) -- my hands no longer tire as easily as before
@@dano0726
👍Agreed I used to feel like strangling the club and no give in the grip feels like it’s effortless with the hands and also stops me twisting the face over so much where I used to get handy .
I no older people that use them a lot . I’m 32 but big hands .
Thank you guys for sharing great to see us all helping each other
🙌🏼🙌🏼it’s a good subject that not often gets mentioned . Keep up the good work your channel has helped my golf game massively . 👊🏼
Alex another great video my friend!
Couple things. I watched a video of a club fitter that said "most" tour players with the exception of a few tend to use a standard size grip but w/ +4 reduce taper option or more + wraps under the right hand. Is that general statistic true?
Also if a player feels like they lose grip control (grip slightly slips or spins slightly in hands at top of swing) once they reach the top of the swing in anyway what would you attribute that symptom to mostly? If how they are gripping the club in their hands is correct, and the backswing is ok can the wrong grip size create this issue?
I would have to say from what I have heard yes it is true. It sounds like it would be the grip size yeah!
Lamkin Crossline standard although thinking about going up a size on the wedges.
Love that!! I have been using them for a number of years. What size glove do you take??
@@AlexElliottGolf medium large
I would have a look At going a little bigger then for sure
Lamkin crossline midsize and a large glove
I can't believe how expensive grips are now and they don't seem to last long . Thanks for showing how to work out the correct size grip you need since I'm having a nightmare with grips at the moment. Because of the winter my skin gets hard and I'm always getting cuts on the right hand fingers!
If your grip is too thick could it cause you to pull it left slightly
Ah huh, I suspected I needed larger grips especially after seeing Bryson's friggin cricket bat handles lol. Don't think I've ever seen a vid explain it like this though. Nice work. I know my hands are a bit bigger than the average and I wear an extra large glove. I don't have arthritis so much, a little bit, but what I do have is carpal tunnel like a mo fo and I thought it might help with that. If I play and practise too much like I have been the last few months my hands go numb as fuck when I'm sleeping and wake up aching like a bastard sometimes then my hands are like half numb the rest of the day. Got an appointment to see the surgeon in a few weeks so hopefully he can bloody sort it out so i can play more. I remember why I quit playing golf for like 10 years now. I thought it was my knackered back but it was fucked up hands. They had to wait until I bought a new set of M6's to remind me though lol. They don't say what size, but I suspect they're standards. Anyway, looks like it might be time to go see the man at the pro shop.
Tried midsize but kept hitting everything to the right and developed a very weak hand position
Golf pride CP2 Pro midsize.
have small hands, but using large grips for arthritis. Why do you say that large grips will affect release. Look at baseball players, tennis players etc. all with very large grips!
Don't you think that small grips allow you to flip the club more. I thought that we all should delay the release and I think that the large grips help. Your comments on this would be appreciated
Hello Richard!!!
Because it will limit the forearm rotation through the shot. I think you have to take into account comfort though
Great vid as always 👍 question: fat fingers? I wear a large glove but can’t, with std grips, get them closed as much as you describe. I do find I lose the club in my grip at the top sometimes, it’s not always stable, but I do grip in fingers and not palm. But have sausage fingers...should I go smaller? Ping G clubs and grips.
Thank you!
Yes I would say you have to look at where your hands are on touching the meaty part of your hand!
Potential look at a small grip - have a test before you buy
great video thank you
you are welcome
I have very big hands and need the thickest grip available with extra tape
That’s great thank you so much for sharing
Biggest ball of crap is that clubs came with such small grips for so long. I bet if you looked back, the best players had small hands. All my life I struggled holding on to a club because the standard grip was so small. Yeah I used two, three layers of tape but that was a bandaid. Now that I can actually hold onto a club, what a difference!
Even finding gloves is hard. I wear an XXL glove and I always go to shops and ask why they don't have men's sizes 🤣🤣
my 2nd fitter at dicks pointed this out today..after I got fitted with pxg for $5000 from 1st fitter,,,,ughhh
went from pxg's to rogue x's in a midsize grip
Cp2 pro standard
Lamkin Standard
Would a person with right he I peruses be the same
Smallest drip available as I have very small hands
Nice that is good!
Made the switch over to JumboMax Ultralite Large (I'm 5'10") and I love these fatties...
Yeah I'm 5' 10" as well with arthritis in hands. I love the fatties too! Still trying to figure out what size works better for me.
@@Brian-lh7jj -- my grip pressure (I used to squeeze way too hard) is dramatically reduced, without the fear of losing it/throwing a club...
GolFpride standar. Feels like shit