Your grips are the connection to the golf club. So it make sense to do a little maintenance on them. Worn, slippery grips can cause you to grasp the club too firmly, resulting in tension and all kinds of bad results. Fortunately, regripping is easy if you use rubber slip on grips:
1) Cut off the old grips with a utility knife.
2) Strip off the old tape. Use a hair dryer to melt the glue if the tape is stubborn.
3) Get some double sided grip tape or a grip kit such as the one here.
4) Secure the club in a vice with soft rubber clamps. You can get a clamp designed for golf clubs here.
5) Apply the tape: There are two ways to do this: You can start at the lower end of where the grip would be by running it in a spiral pattern up the shaft. Or, you can run it lengthwise up one side of the butt and down the other. Peel the backing off the tape so the sticky side is revealed.
6) Put another small strip over the hole on the butt.
7) Put something to catch the mineral spirits under the butt end. I use an aluminum paint tray for paint rollers.
8) Pour some mineral spirits into the grip while holding your finger over the hole at the bottom. Slosh the spirits around inside the grip.
9) Pour the spirits over the tape. Add a little bit more of the spirits until the glue on the tape is slick.
10) Push the grip onto the shaft.
11) Most grips have a couple of little marks at the top and bottom ends to help with alignment. Make sure that these align with each other. Otherwise, the grip might be slightly twisted, which may affect your swing.
12) You can put the logo up (I do), or down (as many pros do). Just make sure that the marks line up parallel to the shaft.
I’ve also put together an instructional video below:
This tip is an excerpt from The Five Inch Course: Thinking Your Way To Better Golf
. The complete book is available in Kindle format at Amazon.com.
Discover more from GolfBlogger Golf Blog
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Like Bruce, I also use a hooked blade, in a box cutter handle only used for regripping – probably will last forever as long as I remember not to go cutting anything else.
I also run the tape longways, I use the Golfsmith tape which is wide enough to wrap all the way around the shaft so I get full coverage with one strip.
Probably the same thing as mineral spirits, but I use Golfsmith Grip Solvent. I also strain the solvent which goes into the drip pan and put back into the bottle for use again.
Easy as pie – but this year right when I was about to regrip, I got the Golfsmith Clubvantage card ($30) which includes 28 regrips and 50% off other repair services and some other discounts.
Also- I am still crazy about the Lamkin Performance Plus white grips. They are looking a little dingy, but seem to wipe fairly clean, but the feel is fantastic, and the white grips stick out like a sore thumb when I try and walk past a wedge on my way off the green.
I had my putter re-griped last week. After playing a round with the putter my partner saids you are missing too many putts, was your new grip lined up with the putter head? When I looked, it had not. Will be taking the club back and assuming they will correct the problem without any hassle.
Fantastic information – very good indeed.