New
grips necessarily aren’t the right grips for you. Two persons with equal size
hands don’t have the same perfect grips. It solely depends upon how you hold
your club and what type of shots you play. As you look for different options,
selecting a grip is not just about sticky feel, it will have a direct impact on
the flight of your ball. You should get the grip which feels perfect for you.
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Stats
on use of different preferred sizes
The
golf grips available in the market
are of four sizes – oversized, standard-sized, midsized and undersized. Until
and unless a golfer’s hand is unusually big or small, he should continue
playing with standard sized grips. The best option is to use a fitting chart to
match the size of the grip to that of you hand size. Actually, it all depends
on how you swing your club. According to stat results of a test of twenty-four blindfolded
golfers, 67 percent chose a different grip size to that of their hand size
before the test and after playing shots 92 percent chose a grip size that was
different from measured grip size. Hence it was proved hand sizes don’t really
matter. Most of them preferred standard sized grips regardless of how those
grips feel. Only a 20 percent golfers hit their perfect shots with matching
size grips in terms of accuracy and a mere 13 percent hit their best shots in
terms of distance control. This proves that you are playing with the wrong
grips.
The founder of Winn grips Dr. Ben Huang said
"Remember that golf is played by feel".You should
compare the results with your old fitting grips to that of new grips at least a
few times. You should make sure that your swing weights are constant
throughout. Larger
grips tend to make the clubs feel extremely light and the smaller grips make
the clubs feel overweight. Most of the time standard sized grips gives the
perfect swing with accuracy. While buying the grips at shops you should scale
your results either by the ‘launch monitor’ or by ‘shot tracking device’. It
must be the first priority of a golfer to select a grip basing on the shot
data. Relying on the standard sized grips and other personal preferences
reduces the ability to hit your perfect shots. A set of 10 new grips may cost
you around 50 to 100 bucks. That's a little amount to pay for better
performance without compromising your club swing.