Grip size has a huge impact on a golfer’s ability to swing freely and consistently. But what happens if you’re grip is actually too big or too small? And which is worse for your performance?

Join us as we test standard, undersized, and oversized grips, and the effect each has on your mechanics, shot shape and dispersion, as well as the reasons beyond just hand size why a golfer may choose to go bigger or smaller – from arthritis and joint pain, to a Bryson style swing. Importantly, we’ll demonstrate the often overlooked role that grip weight has on shot performance.

It might not be you, it might be your grip…

00:00 Golf Grip Size Explained
00:43 How to Measure for Grip Size
03:58 Standard Grip
06:37 Using a Smaller Grip Size
11:57 Midsize Golf Grips
17:00 Oversized and Jumbo Golf Grips
21:51 Jumbo Max Grips
27:23 Comparing the Data for Different Grip Sizes

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so we’re going to do a video for you about grip size and how it affects performance So we’ve got a variety of different grip types but but really about size We’re going to switch them on to this club So we’re only going to change the grip Look at how the performance changes Describe the feels and look at kind of who it might be suitable for and why you may go to one size versus another There isn’t a an exact if your hand is this size you must use this grip because you people might have physical limitations injuries that affect how you hold the club as well But you feel is going to be important How comfortable is in your hands But we’ll see what it does to performance as well So we’re going to start off with my gamer grip And you this is one that I use and the size that I use And get a bit of a comparison between We’ve got all of these different grip types you different sizes different weights that we’ll come on to shortly as well Um but different sizes primarily looking at how the size and the fit in our hands affects how the club and the player interact Now it’s your only point of contact with the club So it is a really important bit to get right So what do we look for initially in terms of grip size Well you we’re going to look at what size glove does someone wear as a bit of a marker point Um and then based on that going to start looking at hand dimensions So you for example I I have you know not overly long finger length but a slightly broader hand size Um I don’t have you know my hand drops back into the the sort of different sides of the hand rather than some players get longer and extend into the index finger So all of these things go forward to give us a start point to say right you what hand dimensions are you and baseline what grip size would we expect you to use Now we’ve got you undersized standard midsize jumbo/oversize and then there are some even bigger than that Um so there are four or five different categories of grip that give us a start point based on kind of initial hand dimensions that we can use as a as a base point to test and build out on It is a mixture of theory in terms of hand dimensions and and base sizing but also players preference You know being your only point of contact with the club it’s got to be comfortable It’s got to feel right in your hands Without that you get tension When you get tension you lose that fluidity consistent which leads to less consistency of pattern through the ball but also a little bit less speed And if you’re having to use these sort of hand and forearm muscles to hold on to the club then it can start to maneuver the face around You lose that that consistency of face and you’re going to get discrepancies in shot pattern as well So going to start off looking at how this fits in my hand here So what are we looking for So I get this into my I I like the grip into my fingers Get it into my fingers here My little finger gets round past the center of the grip but the grip sits underneath the butt of the hand there So that means it’s fully in that finger We’ve got lots of fingerto- grip contact and that can’t that can’t come out unless I do something straight Then got as I kind of close that hand down tips of the fingers touching the pad of my left thumb there So again it’s in my fingers There’s plenty of fingerto- grip contact so it’s nice and secure in that top hand And I can do all kinds of things there Move it around waggle it around and it’s rock solid in that left hand And then depending on bottom hand dimensions we look at how that grip tapers Again we’ll come on to that a little bit later on but that security in that top hand there that’s ultimately what we’re looking for So I’m going to hit a few shots We’ll look at the date I’ll talk about how it feels in the hand as well and then we’ll go to the different grip sizes and look at why you might go slightly smaller or slightly larger but also what going too small and too big can do to performance This will be different player to player Swing patterns will mark out whether a slightly smaller or slightly larger grip will suit you but we’ll go into those as we look at each one in line So I talked about glove size I use a a medium cadet or I the GX is kind maybe just a hair smaller than some a medium And this is good for me The the Cadet which is a not the finest name from a pride point of view but it’s a slightly shorter finger length that some manufacturers do So where I’ve got a slightly bigger palm proportion to finger that’s why I use that size So I use I prefer I like it in my fingers but I don’t want it too small So I play a standard size built up a couple of extra tapes So what that does it makes it feel nice and secure in that left hand Uh there’s a little bit less tapering in this grip as well which again fills out that bottom hand I’ve always I’m very right-handed So a slightly bigger bottom hand just helps me quieten that right hand down slightly but it it stabilizes into that that right trigger finger Uh so what that means is that for me I can just use my body to turn back and through and it stays nice and secure in my hands I don’t have to exert lots of pressure on the grip to keep control of the club That’s a really critical thing because the moment you have to hang on tight or change your grip pressure to get control of that club you’re going to find that face goes all over the place You lose fluidity flow to the swing That flow to the swing and that relaxation in your hands and arms is what gets that that kind of lag on whip that power whip that’s been talked about in the past from coaching is you don’t want to feel like you’ve got to create a release pattern or manage the club face because the more you’ve got to do that or the more you’ve got to kind of control the club in your hands you’re losing all that nice freedom to the swing And that’s one of the things we see all the top players doing And I’m not stating that my swing is like the top players here but what they have is that absolute freedom through the ball but but with softness through their arms So they can create speed but most importantly keep control of the club And you say some players will prefer a bigger or a smaller feel And there is there isn’t an absolute right or wrong dependence on your hand measurements There is going to be light and shade based on players profile and pref preferences Things like grip material from a tread point of view from a comfort side of things but you for me very kind of neutral grip size Maybe slightly larger based on my actual hand size probably because my miss has always been left slightly bigger slightly bigger feels a bit more controlled but um you know ultimately the correct size of the grip gives you that freedom through the ball and I can just let the swing go and not be manipulating through the ball so what happens when we go smaller let’s have a look so so grip change we start off at just over D2 D2 with this grip we’re now up at D3 so going from the standard size to an under size Now this isn’t one of the lightest grips Some of the unders sizes drop from you This grip at 53 g can drop down to 40 42 g maybe even slightly less So which can majorly affect swing weight That’ll be about two points This one’s only8 but that still has an effect We’ve dropped the total weight but it swings more head heavy Bigger differences to come for the bigger sizes but something to be really really aware of because if you’re going down in grip size we can’t take weight off of the head So if it starts to swing head heavy as a result of the grip change there actually isn’t anything you can do Maybe shorten them slightly but then that’s irreversible So just be conscious of that when going down in size So looking at how this fits in fits in the hands we’ve gone smaller So the outer diameter is smaller So what we get here is finger wraps around a little bit further Now that in itself isn’t necessarily a bad thing but as the grip gets a little bit narrower down we can see I’m not overlapping So what that creates is space here There’s there’s a gap between my fingers and the club So that creates room for the club to move around in So you that didn’t happen with the standard size grip for me So that in itself is going to mean that I’m going to naturally start to grip it tighter to stop that moving But what it can also do it can also move more easily twist and with the forces at impact the club basically stops it a little bit at impact That creates quite a lot of rotational force and that can jump the club out of position and end up twisting the club face So it destabilizes a little bit of impact The other bit getting to this bottom hand is that what we can see here as I put that hand on actually it doesn’t really fill that trigger finger out I’ve got to close it down to get control otherwise my hand can move around So I’ve got to pinser it to get control of it which tightens up stiffens up that right hand but also then means as we were saying earlier we lose a little bit of flow So let’s hit a few shots see what happens to the data So the initial feel is that it is that I’ve got to get the club into my hands in the right place Now with the correct size of grip you put your hands on it kind of finds its position for you So one key to is is the grip size right for you is if you feel like you’ve got to get it into the right place in your hands rather than just placing your hands on the club and it being stable that’s a real marker especially from a small size point of view that this can I can put this in a lot of places in my hand and it doesn’t quite feel right So I’ve got to really find a place to get control of it get it more into my fingers But what it’s also done with that light that smaller size it’s a little bit lighter So to swing with it’s noticeably more head heavy So my timing’s got to change to deliver the club a little bit So not only have I changed how it sits in my hands I’m now also changing what I’ve got to do to deliver the club head So you know the dead weight of the total club’s only dropped by five grams or so We’ve only changed the swing weight boy by under a point but that has an effect on how that club tracks through the ball So to hit another one here what that smaller size does and this is where it can be a good thing for some players is it gets it you’ve got to get it more into the crook of the fingers to get control For some players getting it into the fingers is a good thing because it allows your hands to maneuver the club head Uh that can be a good thing If your transition drops the club open you need to use those hand muscles that need to get into the fingers to square the club face up Um so if you shallow out and open the club face and then just turn your body through it goes out right So on the smaller side actually lets you get it into the fingers and lets you work the club face a little bit more which is really saving if the technique’s off a little bit it allows you to save the club a bit more easily Um but if you’re online then going too small also means that that club face can get a little bit out of control So it makes it a little bit more volatile So where on the one hand you could say well it lets you save it a bit more easily the downside is it allows you to move the face around a little bit more So the general stability of the club you to describe how it feels through impact is it feels like the club head flashes a little bit more My hands get a little bit more active and it relies on timing just that little bit more And the other side being you know I know you get into a bit of rough grabs the club head that’s then when that club can really twist around and you can lose strike So that consistency of shot and flight and I almost feel like I’ve got to rein the swing back a little bit because if I go after it feels like it’s going to go left right So going too small gets a little bit too much in the fingers and I’ve got to hold on or I’ve got to manipulate my action to keep that club face under control which really isn’t where you want to go to So what happens when we go bigger So switch into the midsize Now this is midsize is equivalent to about six or seven layers of tape under a standard size So most people think it’s a lot less than that Actually it does make quite a significant difference over a standard size of grip from a from a diameter point of view In terms of balance versus the initial grip uh it’s taken the swing weight down a little bit about you.5.6 of a point Um you know the tall velvet midsize that I’ve got on here is not an overly heavy grip So most you know there are a few grips that stick around the 56 57 g Um there are there are a couple a little bit lighter but the majority tend to go up to 60 You know there are some at 66 67 So that again really loses feel for the club head Now you can add a little bit of weight to get the swing weight back up but knock-on effect of that is you’re taking the total weight of the club up So again something to be conscious of Um but you for me going back to how it fits in the hand This one’s the equivalent of about three or four layers bigger than I play So we can start to see little finger still round past the center So it’s still playable Um but I’m starting just to lose that bit of contact between the tips of fingers and the pad of my thumb So again I’ve got to to get it to close down I’ve got to either wrap my hand around a little bit more or exert a bit more pressure to just close that gap up Now it’s not beyond playable at this this point but it’s on very much on the upper end of where I should be playing or could be playing So I’ll hit a few shots and see what it does So for me having been smaller and smaller for me feeling a little maybe little bit less comfortable going a bit too big I can still feel it’s bigger than I would normally play but it doesn’t feel uncomfortable Uh and say this is the equivalent of say three or four layers more than I would ordinarily play If you’re a standard size grip single layer this will feel pretty different Um but I say it’s not you know for someone with a medium medium large glove um it would be you verging on this sort of size Certainly to the medium large we start to look at a at a midsize grip Hasn’t affected the overall balance of the club too much So you know in terms of performance I wouldn’t be expecting a a large difference moving to this grip Yeah So so conscious that it’s a bit bigger than I would normally use but it doesn’t feel like it loses too much flow through the club I didn’t strike that one too well but actually the movement of the club didn’t feel overly restricted Now this one has a normal tapering to it so it it’s not overly large in the bottom hand Bottom hand feels perfectly comfortable on this Um but the top hand is say that little bit bigger than I would normally play So I kind of feel like I’m having just to almost reg grip a little bit to get it to sit in my hands comfortably but in the swing don’t feel like it massively changes my pattern through the ball And this is one of the things with grip sizes there’s it isn’t a kind of one formula fits all There is room There’s sort of shades of gray rather than just being black and white You’re this glove size you must play this grip Because for some players that bigger grip’s just going to feel you know if you’ve got a hand or a forearm injury or you know a hand issue arthritis something like that that slightly bigger means you haven’t got to close your hand down as much You haven’t got to exert quite quite as much pressure to to fill the fingers out And ingring a little bit bigger if you have a bit of an injury or a hand condition then that will take a little bit of strain off that top hand in particular Your bottom hand less of an issue because it’s more of a support to the club Your top hand is the one that has the real control over the club face However you a bit bigger so takes a bit of strain off the hand You I feel like I maybe lose a little bit of fluidity through the ball But certainly um you know very very playable as a grip for me Very playable should I feel like I wanted that little bit more size just to fill that top hand out But you know whilst a bit on the bigger side you know definitely usable Maybe lose a bit of speed a little bit but again this is going to be player to player I’m so dialed into my grip sites having used it for the last 10 years um that that it’s I’m just conscious it’s different And I think if if there’s a consciousness of it feeling uncomfortable that’s one thing you know if you’re changing grip size it will feel a little different and often takes a few rounds just to kind of get used to that different sizing But normally if the grip’s too small you’ve got to hold on tight You tend to get um tension based injuries in the forearm in your lead arm um either in the wrist or particularly kind of golfer’s elbow tennis elbow um because of if you’ve got to grip tight then the tendons and the ligaments are tight and they don’t absorb shock the same way Okay So you often get either rotation based injuries or vibration based injuries So changing that size can help to alleviate a bit of that as well So you one step bigger You not necessarily for me not necessarily too bad Let’s take it on a little bit further Let’s go up to the jumbo and see how much difference that makes So now moving up to the jumbo or oversized grip So again midsize to jumbo you’re generally looking at the equivalent of adding six or seven layers of standard 2in buildup tape underneath So it’s quite a big change I picked this script to start with because this one’s around about 63 64 g So it’s not overly heavy A lot of the oversizes cuz it’s just more material as you go bigger start to push heavier than that Uh and we’ve got one over there If I grab this one the CPX jumbo this one’s 66 the tall of it This is 82 g which is a vast difference in weight You’re looking at 30 g heavier than a standard size grip Um now that has a huge knock-on effect to the balance of the club So going up to this one from the midsize we’re now we started with with the grip that I’m using at just over D2 This is now C9 C9 and a half So just over C9 So that’s two and two and a bit two and a half two and 3/4 swing weight points difference which is a lot Um because in order to get that back up to the same swing weight I’ve got to add another five or six grams to the head So we’re taking the dead weight up by about 15 grams which is if we’re looking at that from a sharp point of view is really significant If we then go to this one well we’re putting 30 g extra over the original grip That’s roughly six swing weight points I’ve then got to add another 10 g to the head maybe slightly more to get that back up We’re 40 g heavier in total just to get the same static balance Now that it may not be as much of a difference on swing weight to match up However we’re adding a huge amount of weight to the club We wouldn’t even countenance doing that with a shaft But we merily change grips thinking “Oh I’ll go bigger I’ll just pop that one on.” Can’t have much of an effect It’s just a bit of rubber Well that bit of rubber could have a massive effect on how your club swings So really pay attention to the grip weight when you’re changing them over So looking at the sizing of the grip if we go into that part again again if I get this into my fingers like I would normally grip it that little finger now is barely past the center of the grip So any force it takes absolutely no force at all to get that slipping out of that bottom finger Um and I’m nowhere near closing that gap down So in terms of this now I can I can get my fingers rounded if I move it into the palm of my hand but then I lose a lot of that mobility and ability to use my hands in the swing So I’ve either got the choice of sticking in the palm of my hand and if you swing like Bryson that’s exactly what he does because he wants to take his hands out of it all together So there are swings where this could work More on that a little bit later on But if I get it into my fingers then I’ve got to really hold on to that to stop it moving out of my hands So not only have I made the club a lot heavier I’ve now really change the way this sits in my fingers So again what does that mean to swing with So because I’ I’ve only got to I’ve got to get it one way and to get it into my fingers it actually it’s not that difficult to put my hands on the club However I’m very conscious This now feels very different in the top part of my hand and a very different pattern through the ball So you can see where that’s gone Swing line you know half a degree out to win The swing line’s still the same but what’s happened is it’s now starting to change how that left for me how my left wrist moves how the club allows me to move through the ball So if I just move on it essentially it blocks out that wrist from dropping and rotating So it starts to move the handle that way for me This will be a little bit different player to player But what we can say is that it fundamentally changes the way that my left wrist can can move with this size of grip in hand So I try and you swing one another one Again I’m just trying to move and let the club let let my body react to how the club feels in my hands So I’m struggling to square that up So you know both of those are now out that way again Path 6 face six degrees open So I’ve then got to work I’ve got to do quite a lot to get that club face back online So I’m starting to have to build in compensations So angle of attack’s good path’s good but all of a sudden the ball’s nowhere near where I want it to go 60° face angle changes a heck of a lot So in terms of shot shape and that’s easily missing a green So I’ve then got to start to change what I’m doing with my swing to deliver that club face which potentially you could undo a lot of good work from a technique standpoint that you may have done just by changing grip And this isn’t even the biggest one So if we go up a little bit bigger again we’ll see what happens So moving up bigger again Now these ones you all you know familiar with the grips that Bryson uses the Jumbo Max This isn’t the largest They go bigger than this This one’s the the medium but this is still noticeably bigger than the standard jumbo that you get from other brands Now the principles behind why Bryson uses them are because he gets it into the palm of his hand and and his swing you’re very much back and through and body and and not really a hands base He’s not one to use his hands to rotate the face So there is a principle by going super large proportion of the hand size It does mean that actually you you have to get it in the middle of your hands and that actually makes it very hard to make that rotation and it allows you basically it stops me making a lot of that wrist and I have to move the club back and through with my core and my body For Bryson who’s a big strong lad that’s part of the principle of what he’s done with his action to stabilize the club face and he’s done it very very impressively However for a lot of players it might feel very very strange Certainly for me that feels feels like I’m holding a cricket bat handle or you know I guess for for those of you in the states a you know baseball bat something like that you field hockey stick where it’s a much much bigger diameter where we’re not looking for as much kind of lag and whip with the hands Um this you certainly creates that But in terms of how if I were to try and get this into my fingers what you can see there is that I mean that’s barely rounded at all I’ve kind of got just the very very tip of my finger to try and get some kind of hook around it And that finger doesn’t even get past you know barely past the bottom half of that So I’ve got to get it into the palm of my hand to get any kind of wrap around to get any kind of purchase on it Now this particular one is one of the lighter ones This actually brings the swing weight back up very slightly from the Tor Velvet Jumbo Um partly there’s a bit of a grip cap on this but it’s the same kind of weight is 61 62 g So it’s not an overly heavy grip They do some at 128 which is heavier than most shafts that people play So this one keeps the dead weight down but it’s the size and what it does to my patterns through the ball which I’m going to focus on here So you again really kind of sits right into more into the kind of the the the middle part of my hand rather than the fingers and more into the palm side of my hand rather than the fingers here So you what we find if I try and swing this normally as I ordinarily would even more than the standard jumbo grip for right you one degree into about 10° open So it’s a 10 degree difference broadly speaking to where I’d be with a normal grip I’m going to do one more of those just because it’s so different Okay Got that Got that through Maybe the first one was a little bit of a kind of a shock reaction to the club but we’re still seeing it go out right as we did with the jumbo grip So um for me once I go up that much too big without really working and manipulating square it up I struggle to get that face back online Now going more extreme like this the kind of action that may well suit it if I get this into the palm of my hand is where it’s very much a body turn a big body movement swing Now obviously if you got very large hands where these grips have been great We’ve done quite a lot of you know this or slightly one size down We’ve done a lot of these for those who want to go to the jumbo size of grip or a bit bigger but then we don’t have to go up to kind of 70 80 g worth of grip So we’ve done quite a few of these as you players with bigger hands need that bigger size But if I get this into the palm of my hand then basically if I just make a really big body turn my finish I really notice it My finish is really up is up there There’s none of that going on There’s none of that kind of lag and rotation but it’s almost a kind of that that left wrist is pretty much locked out So you still goes to the right for me So I’ve got to really feel like if I get that path I’m gonna feel like I work the path more inside Yeah So for me at this size just doesn’t work I just can’t get that face wrapped over Go down a little bit I’d be able to but you know for me the principles that you know Bryson swings with just doesn’t work I’m too I need my hands to square the face up So that would be something you can use if you have the opportunity to do something like testing a few grip sizes out Using the air compressors like we do means you haven’t got to use the grip tape and wait for it to dry Means you can just switch them on and off So that’s a great way to test but you’ve got to put just a layer of masking tape down so that it doesn’t stick on Um but if you’ve got the chance to do a bit of testing you’ll start to see which ones suit your patterns because they’ll be naturally a little bit straight and they’ll feel feel better in your hands You’ll feel like it’s a more natural move through the ball more relaxed and that you can stay in posture maybe a little bit You if you start to get the club working out of line then it’s going to change the way you stand So you that grip size and how it fits in your hands is really critical to a lot of other things but ultimately what the ball does and how consistent it is is going to tell you an awful lot So going to give you a little bit of a view of the the size of the butt diameter of each of these grips uh and just then talk a little bit about the data and then round up after that So this view here will give you a bit of a sight of running from you know the left as you look at it to the right of the size from undersized to standard to midsize to jumbo to over you know oversized grip There’s a really big change in the diameter Uh and it’s not obviously not just the the straight across diameter Obviously your hand wraps around So you know the bigger you go proportionally it it gets you could argue sort of exponentially bigger You’ve got that much more length to wrap around So there’s some really big differences you can make to grip size There are plenty of grips out there And then you’ve got the nuances of going layers of tape between how they taper to get them feeling as comfortable as possible So you know big big differences out there but weighted grip as we said earlier really critical to make sure that you’re not throwing if you got a club that swings well that you’re not throwing the balance of the club out and therefore your dispersion your timing But from a results point of view what are we seeing So for me it’ll be slightly different for for everyone out there because all our hands are different sizes But what we can see is that the grip size which I use you know the white dots here are the longest And you know the dispersion pattern with the standard size undersize midsize I can control they’re all down the line But the most efficiency we’ve got and we’ll look at the numbers again shortly to back this up is with the size that I use So we can see with the midsize and the undersize we lose a little bit of speed a little bit of distance but the left to right pattern’s pretty similar The undersize is slightly more to the left whereas the standard and the midsize I can kind of manage and keep the face squarer However these ones out here are the jumbo and then the the kind of proper oversized grips So there’s a really big difference and they sit 23 to 27 yards right Even if we you know ignore I’ll take out the really wide one there Uh make sure I’m going to take out the right shot Um then what we can see there is you know that pattern there They’re both 25 odd yards right the target which that shows how much dispersion pattern when you get it wrong And for some players the smaller size is going to be the one that’s further off For me the bigger size it just takes the ball completely offline So I lose that flow and that ability to square the club face up And it’s not just a small difference it’s a big difference So I can go one notch bigger than is correct for me but I or smaller but I cannot go further off than that And that’s something that you know the principles and the theories are great but in practice disastrous for my golf game So from a data point of view you what do we see So start down the bottom You this is the one with with the correct size for me you know club speed you know a little bit high Take 86.9 half a mile out of the midsize a mile an hour mile an hour and a half more than the others So not significantly different but because I’m I’ve got as much flow and efficiency to my action as possible I’m getting nice ball speed So 122.8 you 117 18 16 16.7 you know so we’re seeing up to 7 mph drop in ball speed Now that’s see face angle rather than necessary strike point but you know that goes from you know 179.6 to 161 I’ve dropped best part of 20 yards Now obviously you’d find a way of squaring it up but a significant change in efficiency and flight and that inability to control face angle from you pretty square with the three smaller sizes to five six degrees open with the bigger sizes you know that leads to if I if I add in uh I’m going to add in side total here uh now this is in feet um so you the averages for side total go from 7T 9 foot 3 and 1/2t 89T 75T 25 and 30 yards So a a vast difference in where the ball’s ending up So you really can you tail of the tape here is you really can destroy your golf game by getting the grip size off because it’s the bit of the club that you hold hold on to therefore has a significant impact on how you control the club head So it’s a mixture of you size differences It’s a mixture of you know the comfort the texture will again lead to relaxation consistency and freedom through the ball So that’s another factor to bear in mind but you how it fits your hands but also the weight of the grip what it does the swing weight and the balance and the dead weight of the club you can really significantly throw that off as well So several factors to take into account but hopefully that gives you a little bit of a lead lead into what sizes might do to you know to performance and going too big or too small you know to take a a baseline you know small or you know for ladies or juniors the unders sizes in terms of glove sizes would be where we’d look to start from you know a small medium into kind of the more standard size medium medium large you’re getting into potentially midsize you know and then large extra large Then we’re starting to look at jumbos And then there are some players that have you know hands like shovels quite frankly where the oversizes the significant oversizes start to be the correct size of grip rather than just being something to kind of quieten hands down So that gives us kind of the baseline would look to and then see how it fits in someone’s hands and then the comfort and what does it do to that shot pattern Too big likely to to miss it for a righthander too far right and a leftander too far left too small you’re going to see a little bit of extra dispersion and potentially for some players that’s going to lead to over rotation and a pull Other players it really tightens up on it and kind of holds the club face off but you lose that flow and again that bit of a distance consistency dispersion consistency So hopefully that gives you the leader into it You check out all our other videos on you we’ve done some on grip sizes grip weights swing weights you check them all out and uh you any other content you want us to look at let us know and we’ll look into it for you Hope you enjoyed the video [Music]

20 Comments

  1. Why not use jumbomax ultralight grips to normalize swing weight? That way all testing is closer to a normal swing weight.

  2. I have standard grips on my cubs and feel they too thin, i get slippage and after a good range session i get blisters on my left hand, i am RH. Would you recommend a larger grip, i do have small hands but they are broad. im a medium cadet glove too. What about drivers, i would be interested to see a driver grip test/ video explaining similar to this video

  3. I prefer standard on my driver's, and midsize 1 tape under all irons including wedges. Imagine we all learned to play with jumbo Max's as the standard size grip everything came with. I wonder how golf and swings would have evolved over the years if that was the case. Without the option of learning on a traditional standard obviously. Most traditional guys just almost refuse to seriously play a jumbo so they dont mess up their swing. How do they know if they didnt play them for more than a an outing or a few. As with everything it takes alot time. Curious thing golf is. Love it

  4. Excellent and insightful video, thanks for mentioning msk issues with hands and forearms, adding tape under wraps does affect weight, although I haven’t lost distance – (gained with new tech. Perhaps my dispersion isn’t the best although I wouldn’t put it down to the grip size.

  5. Jumbo max small for a Large Glove size has been awesome for me way less pressure needed allows for hands to stay loose.

  6. Excellent video. I have normal sized hands, but short fingers, usually wear a men's small size glove. I used Lamkin Crossline forever, because when I started to play, there were so few models available. But after a fitter suggested a change, I switched to GP MCC Plus4 grips in my irons and wedges and Lamkin ST+ Hybrid 360 in my woods. It made such a huge difference. The pull hooks, which caused nightmares for years simply went away just because of the grip change. And the tennis elbow symptoms, which I always had in my left elbow after long range sessions also went away. Don't trust a fitter, who will not also fit you for the correct grips.

  7. How dumb are humans? Why would you ever call anything an "undersized" grip, instead of a word that actually describes it, small? By definition an undersized grip would never fit anyone. Undersized literally means too small. Don't know when the species forgot that words mean things, but have to believe it started in a marketing department somewhere. Lots of ideas, but not much brain power at work there.

  8. I played football… my fingers are all jacked up… specifically the knuckles in my pinkies… only the base knuckle at the hand works on my left… and only the two lower knuckles on my right work… I'm happy with a winn jumbo with less taper… it just feels better in my hands.

  9. Could one close the face by 4 degrees… and that would eliminate the ball going hard right as he went with the bigger grips?

  10. So you have medium cadet glove and immediately jumped to a JMX Zen Lite medium. … Sorry to mention, but that is not the smartest option Sir. Should have chosen standard jumbo which is very light ant would have added some SW points to your iron.

    Best way to do test like this is through the set. eg. OEMs are cheap and simplistic when it comes to drivers imho . A bigger club with a bigger swing requires a bigger grip.

  11. Now I understand why my club is vertical on top of my back swing. I've been working on the wrong thing all this while 😂😂😂

  12. This is my learning from this; the same with shaft, driver loft, swing weight, and even glove, it is all different for everyone and no way to figure out without hitting balls and getting data. So I just say try it all and see what’s best? Oh, can’t do that; I agree, so go get fit and spend money. Your choice, but people want to be told.

  13. I’m a medium size in glove and switched to midsize grips. So much better. I always felt I was gripping the club too tightly with the standard grip and never felt comfortable.

  14. This is a very enlightening video and no one has ever mentioned grip sizes to me and I have had 2 club fittings!!

  15. I wear a large glove but use standard grips in my irons. I feel more comfortable being able to manipulate the clubface and I don't really grip harder with the smaller grip. However, I tend to hit hooks with driver and fairway woods, so I use a midsize and it has helped calm my hook down quite a bit. Thanks for the video!

  16. I use a xl glove size and prefer standard grips. Gripping the club in the fongers is essential for proper wrist hinge and releasing hands properly.

  17. Thank you for the video.

    As a (smaller) woman, I struggle to find the right grip. I wear small sized glove or usually S/M sized glove. I feel like I’m more comfortable with undersized grip with the lowest weight possible which is not the easiest thing to find in the market. 😢

  18. I'm not a big guy, I wear a cadet M-L, but my hands were hurting with the standard grip and I felt I was turning over the club face too much. So I switched to midsize. Big difference, my hands don't hurt, and the ball flies straighter.

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