One of the simplest things you can do to improve your scores is to keep your club faces clean. It’s no accident that professional caddies wipe their players’ clubs after every shot. And yet so many weekenders will play an entire round while only bothering to knock off the obvious clumps.
Grooves that are free of dirt and grass particles will impart a more consistent spin to the ball. And a consistent spin will produce more accuracy. Nice clean grooves and high spin also will help a ball stop quickly on the green.
There are so many gadgets and tools on the market to clean your clubs and grooves that it would be impossible to catalog them all. There are special towels, brushes in hundreds of shapes and sizes, foaming cleansers, pick tools and on and on.
The GolfBlogger uses one of the simplest—and cheapest—methods: a rough towel. I get the end of the towel a little damp before heading out and then hang it from my bag. Wiping the club face first with the damp end, and then with the dry works 99% of the time. If things get stubborn, I have a golf pocket knife in the bag with a groove gouging tool.
About this series:
In 1960, the average golf score was 100. Forty years later, in spite of all the innovations in clubs, balls and instruction, the average golf score is … still 100. In fact, only 20 percent of all golfers will ever break that mark.
Here’s the problem: Even with all the improvements, the one thing we haven’t been able to improve is the golf intelligence of the players. Most hackers—and more than a few better players—just play dumb golf. So here’s part one of a series on playing smarter golf. I’ve been collecting mental game golf tips for years in a series of notebooks, on my palm pilot and in various computer files. They’ve helped my game. I know they’ll help yours
This tip is an excerpt from The Five Inch Course: Thinking Your Way To Better Golf
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I just got a cool Frogger Brush Pro to replace my aging brush. It has a grooving tool on one side and on the other a combo plastic/brass brush (brass bristles are ringed by plastic bristles). It also has a slightly thicker, rounder handle for a good grip.
But I think like you that key is really a good towel. I carry a washcloth sized microfiber towel which came from Autozone- 6 for $2-3. I use that for both cleaning the club faces and carry onto the green to clean the ball. just slightly damp works great, and I really don’t have to dry the clubs if the towel is just barely damp.
Guilty as charged. I will wipe the obvious dirt from the club but give relatively little attention to the grooves. Undoutedly some of my lack of ball spin is a result of my sloppy habits.
I hereby pledge to become a groove cleaner in the future.
Since I always carry a tee in my pocket, anytime I am holding a club waiting to shoot I am always using a tee to clean the grooves on the club face. Strange as it might sound: I think it’s become part of my pre-shot routine/ritual and helps me focus on my next shot (oh not to mention my club face grooves are always clean!)
Frugal—I also use a tee.
Thank ypu fir this information! I hope it`s really help me)