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Heading out now, finally got a break from the humidity. I played yesterday too, it was also a lot less humid. I had a lot better luck with them. I was with my kids yesterday so my attention was a little divided. Today I’ll be able to put more focus on them. 

I find I only really notice/appreciate the fingerprint tech on the delicate and short game shots. I don't notice much about it on full swings how about you? 

I've been playing the last few days with the drop in humidity. It's been a lot better on my hands and the grips. I still get a slippery/slickness to them when my non-glove hand comes in contact with them. It's not as bad for sure, I just don't get that with my gamer grips. The fingerprint/textured part is where I experience this. On one hand, I like that it can aid in having a looser grip, I just do not want to feel like my hands are coming off uncontrollably. In other words, still monitoring. I have another 9 holes to walk today. 

Played 18 holes today and definitely broke a sweat walking all 18! The grips held up with no problems even with being the first group out on the course in dewy conditions. No problems with having wedges on the ground after short game shots and the grips getting a bit wet. Didn't feel any problems as my hands started to sweat a bit either. The weather was fairly calm so not too much sweat compared to hot days but overall the grips performed well. 

Following, I’m very curious how it goes. Keep us posted. If you can get some numbers and your results that would be great. 

Decided to just book it cuz I’m curious to see how it goes and it’s only $20. At the very least can get some raw numbers and then take the top balls out on the course to see how they perform real world. Will most certainly swing back with how it goes to let others know if it’s worth doing.

Im sure your not looking for tips but here I go 🙄 I’m a +10 hcp putter and I got there by changing the way I putt completely. I actually hit every putt like it is a tap in, I put one foot back. I line up like normal by picking a spot in front of the ball, but once I lineup it’s with the one foot back like a 10” tap in putt. I even added a waggle like my regular golf swing. This has freed me up on putting so much. I putted like this in a tournament too so it’s not a practice thing for me. It makes the putt more athletic and instinctual. It can be a temporary process though for someone just to feel looser when they putt. I’m also not sure but I may putt looking at the hole or at least part of stroke I do. I can’t remember the last 3 putt I had and in my tournament I would guess (I don’t track stats during) that this saved me 10 strokes. I was making a lot of putts from that 6-12’ range that I would never expect to make in the past. Anyways, I’d recommend trying this even for a temporary shock to your putting system. ✌️ 

Well I know one thing, it is very very humid outside. I’ve never let anything keep me off the golf course but I am maxed out where I live. We’re supposed to cool down for a couple days at the beginning of the week. I made two tee times on those days. I did put my standard grips back on and went out. I’m writing this off as just plain humid out. My hands are like garden hoses right now. I did reshaft my driver and put one of these grips on. I can’t say it enough, these are the best looking grips I’ve ever seen. Pictures don’t do them justice, they have a very high end look to them which I’ve never even had those thoughts in regards to a grip. 

Im sure your not looking for tips but here I go 🙄 I’m a +10 hcp putter and I got there by changing the way I putt completely. I actually hit every putt like it is a tap in, I put one foot back. I line up like normal by picking a spot in front of the ball, but once I lineup it’s with the one foot back like a 10” tap in putt. I even added a waggle like my regular golf swing. This has freed me up on putting so much. I putted like this in a tournament too so it’s not a practice thing for me. It makes the putt more athletic and instinctual. It can be a temporary process though for someone just to feel looser when they putt. I’m also not sure but I may putt looking at the hole or at least part of stroke I do. I can’t remember the last 3 putt I had and in my tournament I would guess (I don’t track stats during) that this saved me 10 strokes. I was making a lot of putts from that 6-12’ range that I would never expect to make in the past. Anyways, I’d recommend trying this even for a temporary shock to your putting system. ✌️ 

Found a shaft at play it again sports that made me finally put this club back in the bag. I’ve had the head forever but once my tempo slowed down I could never get it off the ground. I don’t know if it has a forever place in the bag but it is definitely fun to hit. 
 
 

I had 2 tournaments this week and ended up in 2nd place at both of them. I had a surgery last week and wasn't at my best because I couldn't make a full turn and walking was hard, but I shot 76 in the first tournament and 74 in the second one. Considering that was the first time I had ever played the course, I will take a 3 over par and a 2nd place finish. I have a big tournament coming next week, it is a 2 day event at 2 of my favorite courses in our area. I think that one of the courses is very score-able and I am hoping to shoot in the 60s. The other course is a beast and I think that anything around even there will win it. It should be awesome and I am feeling pretty good now post surgery. Hopefully I can put my name at the top of the board next week! I have 3 more tournaments next month for sure and 2 more that I am waitlisted on and trying to get into! Wish me luck!!!
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May be time for a "mental break" and just go and play a round or two without thinking about scoring, but rather hitting various shots from various spots during a round.
Sometimes we are too hard on ourselves, and have high expectations, and then compound the issue of putting too much pressure on ourselves when things may not be exactly what we wanted or planned them to be.
Even if you just go and practice, don't think results, work on your swing thoughts, or practice hitting longer clubs shorter distances.
RELAX and have fun, no pressure situations.
You have the tools and ability, you have posted great swings and scores, and may just need a "pause" to refresh or reset.
Try and make your next time or two out a fun time, just accepting that the game really is one shot at a time, and we get more than one chance to hit what we may perceive as a perfect or great shot. 

Found a shaft at play it again sports that made me finally put this club back in the bag. I’ve had the head forever but once my tempo slowed down I could never get it off the ground. I don’t know if it has a forever place in the bag but it is definitely fun to hit. 
 
 

Found a shaft at play it again sports that made me finally put this club back in the bag. I’ve had the head forever but once my tempo slowed down I could never get it off the ground. I don’t know if it has a forever place in the bag but it is definitely fun to hit. 
 
 

Found a shaft at play it again sports that made me finally put this club back in the bag. I’ve had the head forever but once my tempo slowed down I could never get it off the ground. I don’t know if it has a forever place in the bag but it is definitely fun to hit. 
 
 

Found a shaft at play it again sports that made me finally put this club back in the bag. I’ve had the head forever but once my tempo slowed down I could never get it off the ground. I don’t know if it has a forever place in the bag but it is definitely fun to hit. 
 
 

Found a shaft at play it again sports that made me finally put this club back in the bag. I’ve had the head forever but once my tempo slowed down I could never get it off the ground. I don’t know if it has a forever place in the bag but it is definitely fun to hit. 
 
 

Gotcha. You're definitely right, eventually that will catch up with him and maybe next time his partner won't be as nice as you.

Sorry if I wasn’t clear, I actually did not turn him in. I went back and forth on it but decided fate would catch up with him eventually without my help. I told the two gentleman in the cart barn but they weren’t involved in the tournament. At least in the scoring aspect. ✌️ 

reminds me of the player in Canada who recently was caught cheating and admitted to it. Usually you don't just start cheating; you do it for a while and then someone catches you.
Hope the kid learns his lesson now rather than later. FWIW I think you did the right thing turning him in.

So I played my first tournament and had a great time, played pretty good and look forward to more of them. But this was a shocking experience at the end of the round. When we finished, we’re totaling and signing score cards in the parking lot. We finished up and went our separate ways. The kid I was playing with unloaded his clubs from the cart and said goodbye. He was a young kid who played for a small college a few hours away. He was a good player although he didn’t have a great round. When I went to park the cart I noticed he left a golf ball in the cart, I went to look for him but I think he’s already left. I dropped my clubs in my car and went to put the ball in my bag and what did I discover…. The ball was caked in Vaseline! My jaw hit the floor. This kid didn’t need to cheat, he was a good player. I am a newbie to tournaments but I showed the cart barn guys and they knew exactly what it was when I showed them. Both agreed he was cheating and they seemed frustrated but not surprised. One said it is a common occurrence in amateur tournaments. Not what I wanted to find and it made me look at the kid in a completely different light. I never turned him in and I wasn’t gonna go down that road. If he is cheating regularly he will get caught someday. The weirdest thing is, earlier in the round we were talking golf and the topic of Patrick Reed came up. The kid was defending him which hindsight makes me laugh a little. 

So I didn’t get through all 76 pages of this thread lol, but I wanted to add my 2 cents. I’ve always hit my fairway woods disproportionately longer than any clubs in my bag. I can hit my 3 wood longer than my driver usually (forgiveness does play a factor though) I eventually came to the conclusion it was the shaft I had in my woods. It is the aldila rip phenom. It’s an older shaft but it has a really soft midsection and when I time it right they are canons. Off the tee I’ve hit my 3 wood 284 yards(rollout), that’s the longest I’ve actually tracked it. For an average swing speed player that’s ridiculously far. I’ve always though that was the autoflex secret, an Uber soft midsection, stiff tip and butt. I had one finally put into my old driver and when I got a hold of it I experienced the same results with it. I carried it 295(longest I actually tracked). You may have covered this but have you looked specifically at shafts with that profile? Eve flow is somewhat similar but is more “even” throughout the shaft. Mitsubishi Kuri Kage black hbp is also this profile and can be had new for cheap. Food for thought ✌️ 

First round after my tournament, I rolled my ankle pretty bad a week ago and is still affecting me but eeked out a decent score. I was getting very tired by the end.

Thanks to My Golf Spy and Lamkin for the chance to participate. My name is Stacey, yes I’m a dude, and no my mom does not in fact have it going on to my knowledge. I mean she is great, but the song does not apply to us.

  So a lot about me, I am 39 years old and hail from the state of Missouri, just outside Springfield to be specific. I'm currently building my house while living in it. It is located at the end of a dead end road on 60 acres and that’s the way I like it, secluded.

 I am outdoors all the time, I hike a lot, bow hunt, and keep in shape for my once a year trip to Colorado to go chase elk in the mountains. To say I’m an outdoorsman might be too fancy for me, I’ve dubbed the term “woodrat” to describe myself. I work as a regional sales rep for a brewery. My proudest achievement is my two children, they tag along with me often to play and are starting to wail on the clubs themselves.     
   
   I have been playing golf for 15 years or so with a recent 5 year layoff due to some serious back pain, but now I’ve returned and am playing the best golf of my life. My game has transformed and the parts that were my strength are now my weakness and vice versa. I am not the longest hitter in the game but can poke it out there sometimes.

 My course management and mental game are my strengths by far, I think it comes with age and never thinking I would play the game again. I even walk with a bit of laid back swagger. (Think Jason Dufner meets Fred Couples) I am currently gearing up for my first ever stroke play tournament. I hope these grips make the cut and can join me in the journey. 

 If you are curious about how grips will hold up to moisture, stay tuned for my review as I will be the ultimate test for these grips. I have a condition called hyperhidrosis. It basically means I sweat.. A LOT! Specifically my hands sweat abnormal amounts compared to the rest of my body, which also sweats..A LOT! As I type this indoors in the a/c I have to keep a bandana on me to dry my hands periodically. I exclusively wear rain gloves and keep 3-4 attached to my bag and rotate them every shot.
  
So Lamkin is in for a ride and we shall see how these hold up. I assure you, if they hold up to me they will hold up to you. I currently use another Lamkin grip called the crossline plus.

 Luckily these grips have the same specs. I will be installing my own with air and will also be something I am reviewing. I have used several completely different styles of grips over the years, but my favorite feeling grip of all time was the Winn Dri Tac wrap. I have been searching for a grip that feels like that but lasts longer than a week. I hope Lamkin can deliver on their claims of “feel” regarding this grip. One other thing I am specifically honing in on with these grips is at the transition from the top of the backswing to impact. I really have trouble gripping the club too tight at that transition, I’m hoping a tackier grip can aid in that. I think these grips will make the bag if can maintain that tacky feeling and not get slick, that’s my biggest pet peeve is when a grip wears and becomes slick. So buckle up and stay tuned and let’s see what we can find out. 
-Sprinkler Hands

 
Initial Impressions 8 out of 10
I usually gravitate towards a clean, no fuss grip. Bright colors and patterns are not for me and I find them to be distracting. I do not like the way they look in my bag to others either which I realize is ostentatious. So when I opened the box today, I half expected me to be disappointed in these. I have looked at these online when shopping for new grips, and before the all black version was released I immediately dismissed them as the blue was just too much for me to stomach and assumed this version was only slightly less gaudy. I was wrong.  

Looks
In-hand, these things are stunning! They do have an almost gloss finish on them but not to the point of being distracting, just enough to make them look high end. The pattern is subtle and blends in with the rest of the grip and are almost invisible when you hold the club at address. This is of course not taking into account the small white pattern in the center of the grip. It is almost too much out of the box, but again at address, it doesn’t become distracting or serve as a strict alignment aid. You can use it as that if that’s how one lines their club up. I do not like to see any alignment aids on my grips and this was my biggest concern with these. But once installed and looking down I was able to move past that very quickly and resume my normal grip alignment. The patterns really hide amongst the rest of the grip and the white pattern almost disappears when you set your leading hand on the grip and my thumb lands perfectly on it. These make my Nike’s look gooood


Feel
In my hand, uninstalled I would put these in a medium-firm feeling grip. Compared to my crossline plus (velvet style) these are a bit firmer to me. I was expecting something totally different in this category. I really thought they would be very soft and resemble something like a GP CP2 pro grip. They feel firmer than that however and much firmer than the Winn dri-tac I had envisioned. I don’t mind a firm grip, my concerns are how they will hold up to my level of moisture. They have an almost slick feel to them out of the box, once installed they still have a bit of a slick feel while not wearing gloves (remember my sweaty hands). I was finally able to dry my hands enough to get a good idea of how these feel. They have a nice tacky feel to them. It’s an almost corded tackiness as well with the design of the grip. It’s very nice. I am interested to see how they fare in the humidity on the course. 

 
Quality/Consistency
I weighed each grip on my scale and found they are in a reasonable range. It never varied over 1.5 grams from the heaviest to the lightest. Every grip I’ve ever put on has approximately this range. The advertised weight was 57 grams and all grips weighed slightly more than that, the heaviest being 58.5 grams and the lightest being 57.1

 

 

 

 
 
 


 
I really enjoyed testing these grips and the overall testing process. I am thankful for the opportunity provided by all involved and I hope to participate in more in the future.
 
Well, this was definitely a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tale for my test. There were points along the way that I never wanted to swing another grip and other times I wanted to rip them off and never use them again. So let's explore that shall we...
Aesthetics: 10/10
Ok, so I initially said there was no grip that could achieve a perfect score as it is subjective… I threw that idea out the window. These grips look incredible! They look very high end, classy, clean, and make your clubs stand out without being too loud. They say something without saying it. I think if I saw these on a competitor's clubs I would immediately think they were a good player. I personally don’t like bold colors, and wacky designs on my grips. I prefer straight, black, clean looking grips, but these went beyond that. 

 Fit and Feel: 18/20
I’ve always preferred a less tapered and midsize grip so there isn’t much else about the fit to score. I deducted only 2 for the installation process, where the grips were a little flimsy to put on with air but they did not prove much extra trouble. If they would have been less flimsy they would have been less soft and tacky anyways. I have a lot of extra grips laying around and for this test I put them all on and at least took some practice swings  with them to get a feel for the grips. I made sure my hands were dry and they all had the same conditions. I couldn’t find one grip better than these in the feel department, even the Winn Dri Tac wrap grip which was always my favorite feeling grip lost to these. They have a firm yet soft feel? The fingerprint tech almost acts like a cord while the soft material feels like it sticks to your hand. It is very unique and I think there is something there that can improve a lot of golfer’s stranglehold on their clubs while not having to go full corded grip. 
 On the course: 5/20
Ok, here’s where we start to see the problems that arose for me. If you haven’t read my intro please do so. It will help you better understand the issues I had with these grips. I deducted half the points due to my copious amounts of sweat which caused the grips to act like a bar of soap in my hands. My circumstance is extreme and shouldn’t be necessarily used for you the consumer to judge the grips performance. You will be better off to judge the grips based on another tester's experience. The humidity was to levels I have not seen before and other grips also got slick, but for whatever reason, these grips were the worst for my level of sweat. Again, I am an anomaly, but it is the truth and couldn’t even swing these grips bare handed with everything going on. Even with rain gloves on both hands I still never felt 100% confidence in them. 


 
The Good, the bad, and the in-between: 15/20
You may  be thinking this is too high of a score given the last couple lines in the previous section. But I also have to take into consideration my condition and work around it and in it and everything else. The truth is, no grip performs perfect when conditions are that bad for me, yes, corded grips seem to perform the best and softer grips less so, but they all have issues when covered in oily, gross sweat. I think back during this test to two specific times I was using them, once in the late evening on my property while the sun was setting and the humidity had dropped substantially. I was able to go out with my wedge and hit a bucket of balls on less than full swing shots and I was able to feel all these grips had to offer and I loved it. The swing felt effortless and in complete control. This was due to the grip alone. My initial thoughts about the test was based around this one section of my swing, the transition from the top of my back swing to the downswing. I tend to grip the club too tight during rounds and never feel like I can relax through that move. These grips allowed me to do that and not have to think about it either. That alone gave me a glimmer of hope to what these grips can provide and I loved it. Another time was chipping after a round and the same scenario, low humidity and dry hands. Same experience, just effortless comfort. 
 Play it or Trade it: 10/20
So I am taking these grips off…. For the moment. I am going to let the humidity drop and revisit them in the fall. For all I know these could be a seasonal grip for me, they have the same exact specs as my gamers and the brief time I got to experience their potential left me wanting more. I will repost on this page so if you’re interested in seeing how it shakes out, check back in here. I think it will be a completely different outcome. 
 
So in closing, do I recommend these grips to you? Yes, absolutely yes! Try them, you will be pleasantly surprised at the unique feel and responsiveness of the grips. I could, however, not game them at this very moment. I did however, play in my first tournament and shot a great 75(+5) round with them. Hard to complain about that. They are also the most stunning grips I’ve ever seen and as I’ve said before, that is not a statement I’ve made in the past. They made me want to build an all black set with heads and shafts to match. If anyone does this, show me! It would be the single best looking set of irons ever! I also liked the feel so much I purchased a matching (ping version) of the putter grip. I look forward to the fall and my chance to dig deep into them again. I’m considering this test ongoing and looking forward to part two. So, if we are counting (and we are) that totals up, along with initial impressions to….. (drum roll please)
 
Total Score: 76/100
 
 

First round after my tournament, I rolled my ankle pretty bad a week ago and is still affecting me but eeked out a decent score. I was getting very tired by the end.