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Grips: The Glorious and Gruesome

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Posted 26 March 2010 - 02:06 PM

So what are your favorites and least favorite grips?
How often do you adventure into new grip territory?
Take us on a trip with your grip(s)...
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Posted 26 March 2010 - 02:37 PM

For leather, I like http://www.bestgrips.com

I used to be a Golf Pride Tour Velvet fan for basic black rubber, but I think the Lamkin Crossline Tour has it beat for quality/feel/value.

I'm expecting 2 Iomic Sticky club grips to arrive sometime in the next week or so. I'll probably put one on an iron and one on a hybrid to test.

For the putter, I like the Golf Pride Tour Classic.

I've tried Winn club and putter grips here and there, but they've always been too slick for me ... so I haven't gone back to them.
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Posted 26 March 2010 - 02:39 PM

Golf Pride Tour Velvet Midsize

Iomic - regular size

Outside of dabbling with a couple Gripmasters on my putters, I don't really have any inclination to try anything different as far as grips go.
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Posted 26 March 2010 - 02:42 PM

I've become a big fan of the Golf Pride DD2's. Iomic for putters.
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Posted 26 March 2010 - 02:51 PM

For performance and value, the Lamkin Crossline can't be beat. I play them on my irons and wedges. I experimented with the Winn PCI-TL on my driver for 2 weeks last season. When the surface started pealing off the grips, the experiment ended. I know of others who have had similar problems with Winn. I'm probably done with them.

I'm going to pick up a Lamkin N-DUR to try out on my driver, and maybe my fairway woods.
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Posted 26 March 2010 - 03:05 PM

View PostMoecat, on 26 March 2010 - 09:37 AM, said:

For leather, I like http://www.bestgrips.com

I used to be a Golf Pride Tour Velvet fan for basic black rubber, but I think the Lamkin Crossline Tour has it beat for quality/feel/value.

I'm expecting 2 Iomic Sticky club grips to arrive sometime in the next week or so. I'll probably put one on an iron and one on a hybrid to test.

For the putter, I like the Golf Pride Tour Classic.

I've tried Winn club and putter grips here and there, but they've always been too slick for me ... so I haven't gone back to them.


I know I just said I don't want to change, but now I'm going to GG to have a look at the Crossline Tour's if Moe says they're better (and cheaper!).
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Posted 26 March 2010 - 07:44 PM

Golf Pride New Decade Multi Compound White.

For putters I just have the stock Scotty Cameron full cord, but it is very worn and I am thinking of getting a GD ND MC putter grip for it because I like the cord feel.

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Posted 26 March 2010 - 08:28 PM

I'll chime in.
Loved the original lamkin grips on my OS2 irons, got the burners last year and took off those stock grips after 2 rounds. terrible IMO
Replaced them with white Sharpro multi-compounds. I liked these and used them all summer and fall before they showed wear
Replaced those with the Itomics, white on the woods and red on the irons and wedges. While I like the sticky feel of the itomics, they may be moving on due to size. They are a little bigger than the standard grip. Not a lot, but just enough to feel a little off. May try the new white lamkins...

Putter is Standard Iomic. It is far and away the best feeling for me.
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Posted 26 March 2010 - 09:25 PM

View Postsactown, on 26 March 2010 - 03:28 PM, said:

I'll chime in.
Loved the original lamkin grips on my OS2 irons, got the burners last year and took off those stock grips after 2 rounds. terrible IMO
Replaced them with white Sharpro multi-compounds. I liked these and used them all summer and fall before they showed wear
Replaced those with the Itomics, white on the woods and red on the irons and wedges. While I like the sticky feel of the itomics, they may be moving on due to size. They are a little bigger than the standard grip. Not a lot, but just enough to feel a little off. May try the new white lamkins...

Putter is Standard Iomic. It is far and away the best feeling for me.


Has the blue cow experiment on the Twisty ended already?
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Driver: Callaway RAZR Fit Extreme
Hybrid: Adams Super Hybrid 17* w/Matrix hM3 85-X
3I: Mizuno Fli-Hi 21*
Irons: Wilson FG Tour V2
Wedges: Wilson FG Tour 52*, 56*, 60*
Putter: Byron Morgan Epic Day or Bettinardi SS11

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Posted 26 March 2010 - 09:27 PM

I play a mix of Golf Pride Grips. Dual Durometer on the driver, Tour Velvet on the 3 wood, Hybrid and Wedges and then Mutli Compounds on the Irons. I think I may do all GP NDMC on all my clubs but match up the grips to match the clubs to look like this:

Black/Blue for the Driver w/ GD YS+6 shaft
Black/Orange for 3 Wood w/ UST PF V2
Black/Green for Hybrid w/ stock Aldila hybrid shaft for cobra
Black/White for the Vokeys
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Posted 26 March 2010 - 09:53 PM

View Postrobbo32, on 26 March 2010 - 04:27 PM, said:

I play a mix of Golf Pride Grips. Dual Durometer on the driver, Tour Velvet on the 3 wood, Hybrid and Wedges and then Mutli Compounds on the Irons. I think I may do all GP NDMC on all my clubs but match up the grips to match the clubs to look like this:

Black/Blue for the Driver w/ GD YS+6 shaft
Black/Orange for 3 Wood w/ UST PF V2
Black/Green for Hybrid w/ stock Aldila hybrid shaft for cobra
Black/White for the Vokeys


I love the thoughtful color coordination.

I'd love to see the look your club guy gives you when you're explaining to him "Now the white ones go on the wedges and...."
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Hybrid: Adams Super Hybrid 17* w/Matrix hM3 85-X
3I: Mizuno Fli-Hi 21*
Irons: Wilson FG Tour V2
Wedges: Wilson FG Tour 52*, 56*, 60*
Putter: Byron Morgan Epic Day or Bettinardi SS11

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Posted 26 March 2010 - 10:22 PM

View PostMSaternus, on 26 March 2010 - 02:25 PM, said:

Has the blue cow experiment on the Twisty ended already?

It just feels a bit wrong, and definitely worse than the iomic
grabbing that one gives me the ready to putt feeling...
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Posted 26 March 2010 - 10:45 PM

View PostMSaternus, on 26 March 2010 - 02:53 PM, said:

I love the thoughtful color coordination.

I'd love to see the look your club guy gives you when you're explaining to him "Now the white ones go on the wedges and...."


Yeah I'd probably give them to my buddy who regrips clubs for the Country Club when the course isnt busy. Better yet I'll just type of a set of directions and have someone regrip them.
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Posted 26 March 2010 - 10:57 PM

I had played Golf Pride V55 Full Cords for years, then switched to the Golf Pride Decades for the last two years. Now I am using the Lamkin 3Gen grips and really like them so far. I will usually put new grips on in March, replace them in May, and then again at the end of July.
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Posted 26 March 2010 - 11:08 PM

View PostPGA_09, on 26 March 2010 - 03:57 PM, said:

I had played Golf Pride V55 Full Cords for years, then switched to the Golf Pride Decades for the last two years. Now I am using the Lamkin 3Gen grips and really like them so far. I will usually put new grips on in March, replace them in May, and then again at the end of July.

Are you playing the white ones? How is the dirt factor?
Did you look at the N-Dur? They are on my list to check out next. A bit more money though.
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