SuperStroke Cross Comfort Grips Review

SuperStroke Cross Comfort Grips Review

SuperStroke Cross Comfort Grips
Grade: A
Teacher’s Comments: A soft, but responsive grip at a good price.

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Superstroke is widely known for its putter grips, which gained fame more than a decade ago with its Flatso and Fatso models.

In the ensuing years, SuperStroke has released a wide variety of putter grip sizes and styles — and has branched out into grips for the rest of the clubs in the bag (they also now are producing bags to put those clubs in. I haven’t tried one, so I don’t know how those fare.)

SuperStroke recently sent some of their midsize grey/black Cross Comfort grips for review. The grips also come in undersize, standard and oversized in black/red, black/blue and black/grey. The undersize model has a grey/pink option.

I have tested a lot of grips over the years, but have always gone back to the Winn Dri-Tac, which I like for their softness and traction even when damp. I play bare-handed in all but the coldest weather, so I expect a lot out of my grips. The midsize and cushioning are concessions to arthritic hands.

SuperStroke Cross Comforts offer the same soft feel and tackiness as the Winns, but at around half the price.

Under the hood, SuperStroke says the Cross Comforts have a top layer of “soft and tacky polyurethane” with an “advanced surface texture that boosts traction.” The inner layer, Superstroke says, is a firm rubber to provide “torsional stability” and “accurate feedback.”

With my not-particularly-fast swing, the Cross Comforts have a muted feel at impact, but not a dead one. I have tried a couple of softer grips over the years that have a more pillowy feel. I didn’t like those.

At the same time, my hands just won’t stand up to a whole round of the harder, half-corded grips I used when I was younger. There’s just too much of a sting.

The SuperStroke Cross Comfort is a good middle ground. I can still feel where the ball hits the face, but it doesn’t hurt.

The “X” pattern on the grips remind me a bit of the Lamkin Crosslines I played with for a while.

My initial reaction was that the Cross Comfort is slightly larger than the Winn Dri-Tac. That turned out to be true. At the same time, the SuperStrokes are slightly lighter.

My only question is: how these will hold up to long term use? The Winns were not particularly durable, often requiring a midseason change on the most used clubs. The surface of those would turn a bit grainy in the pressure spots.

The Cross Comforts are an obviously different material, though, so I have hope that they will last longer. If that turns out not to be the case, I’ll post an update to this review.

For now, the SuperStroke Cross Comforts are recommended.