How Does Wrong Size Grips Affect Your Game?

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.

·         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.

·         Points to remember while buying

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.