ARE YOU PLAYING THE WRONG GRIP? … and is it costing you shots?

It’s your only point of contact with the club and the grip can effect face control, yet it’s often ignored in fitting. At SGGT you can change grip during your fitting to find out what works for you. The guys give you the lowdown on what you should be looking for.

ABOUT SGGT
SGGT is known for its unique, detailed 4, 6, 8, PW iron fittings at our flagship Edinburgh and Chesterfield studios. Where as many fitters use only 7 iron to fit an iron set, SGGT goes through the bag to find you the best fit for your game.

Recently, a customer said he thought SGGT offered the “World’s Best Iron Fitting” at our flagship Edinburgh and Chesterfield studios. He challenged us to find anywhere else in the world that offered all this in iron fittings:

• Fitting across set 4, 6, 8 irons & PW. Not just a 7 iron.
• Completely brand independent so you’re guaranteed unbiased advice
• Largest heads/shaft selection in Europe. We have the biggest matrix.
• Premium balls – ProV1s etc instead of range balls.
• Your choice of grip – We’ll put your preferred grip on the clubs you’re testing.
• An opportunity to test off mats & grass, indoor & outdoor during the fitting. It’s the only way to see the true ball flight and test turf interaction. Plus you still get the benefits of our Trackman launch monitors.

We haven’t found anywhere else yet. So, is SGGT the “World’s Best Iron Fitting?”. We’d be genuinely curious to know so please do get in touch.

Please Note: There are regional service variations offered at our Netherlands studios. Please contact them for details.
If you’d like to experience an iron fitting on this level then contact our Edinburgh or Chesterfield studios – or book online at www.sggt.co.uk

SGGT has a number of great fitting features including
The biggest matrix selection of club heads, shafts and grips to ensure you get exactly what you want
Trackman launch monitors
Open bays so you can see the real ball flight
SST Shaft Puring to get the most out of your shaft
S3 shaft profiling
We’ll fit your preferred grip during fitting sessions
Iron fitting with 4/6/8/PW instead of just one club
Outdoor wedge testing including in bunker
Premium balls
Matt and grass testing

DRIVERS & WOODS – FULL RANGE including
Titleist GT1, GT2, GT3, GT4 Series drivers GT280 Mini Driver
TaylorMade Qi35 Qi10 Core, Max, Maxlite and LS
Ping G440, G430 MAX, LST SFT and 10K
Cobra DS Adapt, Darkspeed
Callaway Elyte, Ai-Smoke, Paradym, Max D, Triple Diamond
Srixon ZXi Driver
Mini-Driver, Fairways and Hybrids

IRONS AND WEDGES – FULL RANGE including
Titleist T100, T150, T200, T250, T350, 620, 722
Taylormade P7CB, P790, P770, Qi irons
Ping G440, G430, G730, i230, i530, i59, Blueprint T
Callaway Elyte, Standard, X, HL (high launch) and Max Fast. Paradym Ai Smoke, Apex
Srixon ZXi7, ZXi5, ZXi4 Z-Forged II, ZX4 MkII, ZX5 MkII, Zx7 MkII
Mizuno JPX925 Hot Metal, JPX 923, Pro 245, 243, 241

SGGT custom fitting service creates golf clubs that are personalised to you and your swing only. Using our own proprietary fitting system we can combine heads and shafts from all the leading brands to create the ultimate combination in one of our two tour fitting studios. The Lyle Studio covers the woods and the long game and the Hogan Studio fits irons and wedges. All orders are built in our own in-house workshop. You can also trade in your old golf clubs for new ones. For more information choose the fitting you require below and book online.

Whether you’re a high, mid or low handicap golfer SGGT can help. We offer a tour level fitting experience for all levels of golfer from an average golfer looking for improved performance through to the club champion or elite professional looking for precision in their equipment.

BOOK YOUR FITTING NOW

SGGT
100 Swanston Rd,
Edinburgh
EH10 7BB
0131 202 9055

Hi and welcome back to SGGT. Today James, Aaron, and myself, we’re going to discuss something we do quite unique at SGT. So throughout the fitting process, one of the things we can do is we can remove the grip that you’re trying and put on a different grip to see one, how it feels, and two, if there’s any performance benefits. So throughout the process, we’ll look at size, texture, shape, and who they might suit. So James, why do we do what we do? The grip is the only point of connection to the golf club. So it’s really, really important that it’s the right thing in the customer’s hand. If a grip is not the right size or the right shape or the right texture, the golfer is maybe going to struggle with how they release through impact, might go too far left or too far right. So grip is our only piece that you hold on to. So it’s really, really important that we’ve got the right one in every fitting. Who plays what size? How does it work? So comfort first and foremost. So to get a s to get a grip size that you are comfortable holding. Um if you’re looking at kind of ball flight indicators and kind of trying to gauge of what size you should be using. Um hand size obviously comes into it. Comfort is the biggest thing. If you’ve got a grip that’s maybe a bit too thin, you can tend to overre it and you may get that a little bit of leftness. If you’ve got a grip that’s too big, typically it could be a little bit too big. It’s a tool we’d use. We’d maybe reduce the grip size and try and get you rotating a little bit more. It’s a really useful tool to try and help us dial in both as much as anything else. And what about texture, James? And I bet you would look at is would you pick one over the other? It’s it’s it’s very much a feel-based thing. Some golfers are going to are going to do really well with a a grip that’s got more texture, something that’s got cord or maybe a kind of rougher texture to the grip, and other golfers are going to want to have something that’s either a whole lot softer or just less rough on their hands. And shape, Aaron, there’s some different ideas now, isn’t there? Got Plus4 is a big one that’s come into the the world, the grips recently from Golf Pride. Um, it’s a reduced taper grip. uh a little bit thicker under the bottom hand. As a right-handed golfer, typically it’s going to be your your right hand. Maybe just trying to take some of that lead hand out of out of the equation. Again, controlling ball flight, controlling face angle directly and then ball flight. It’s essentially the same size all the way through, isn’t it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good. And what do you personally play? What have you got? Um MCC. Uh so multi compound midsize, small hands, don’t have the biggest hands in the world. I wear a small or a medium glove. Okay. Which is why I said like it does matter what your hand size is. It has to feel comfortable. But for me, that slightly thicker grip, maybe arguably slightly too thick for my hand size, just helps me control face angle a little bit more. Okay. James, what do you play? Um, my hands are a little bit longer. Uh, but I play a I play a standard size of grip. Okay. Um, I feel that if I go a little bit too big, I just can’t really rotate my hands through. It almost feels like there’s too much club in the hand. Uh but it’s it’s definitely one of these things. It’s such a personal choice and unless you try these things, you just you just never know. On paper, you’d probably put you into a midsize and me into a standard probably. Yeah. What kind of grip do you play? I play I play a multi- compound myself as well. Cord with a top hand just helps dry it out and then just a bit softer. It’s good for alignment as well, I find. That’s it. Yeah. How about yourself, Scott? What kind of grips do you use? Um, I use Align Max uh plus4. I’ve always used a ridge down the back of it. I always used to play Tour Velvet 58X and they don’t do them anymore. So, I was searching for something that existed and I really like the feeling of a rib down the back of it. If you give me a round grip, it’s almost like I can’t feel where the thing is. And I just quite like the texture of it as well. It works quite well. That’s another one. So, softness, firmness of grip. If you got something that you somebody in that tends to be kind of an overtensor, squeezes the life out of it and Again, it varies, but you put them in something soft and that gives them a little bit more awareness. Typically, you’re going to put them in something firmer just so that they don’t kind of indent the grip essentially. Yeah, that’s it. And what what brands do we carry here? What have we all got? So, we have Golfite, we have number one, IMIC, uh we also have Wind Grips, we have Linen Grips. What else have we got? Certainly plenty. That’s the big five. That’s the big ones. Yeah. predominantly golf pride kind of split between ionic and number one. But yeah, it certainly helps being able to try during a fitting session. I think a lot of guys that doesn’t need to be on and off all the time. There’s certain guys that I’ve always played a midsize and at the end of a driver fitting, it’s what impact does that make? So, if you take a standard grip at 50 grams and a midsize at 70 g, it’s obviously going to fling swing weight off and it’s how does that then work from a balance point standpoint. So, it’s what do we do? So it’s it’s nice to be able to try that without having to say we think that’s going to do. I think a lot a lot of time if it’s just a feel maybe there isn’t necessarily need to put it on. We do put it on sometimes but if we’re talking about changing shapes or changing texture changing something size-wise or weight wise it’s certainly there’s loads of mileage in being able to put it on. I think a lot of the ladies grams down at 30 grams like it then has another impact as well. I think ra I think rather than getting to the end of the fitting and the grip discussion being what like what do you play already? What do you what do you fancy because grip’s a performance aspect of the golf club? It’s really important that we try that we try these things and sometimes if you play like a like a larger grip in the in the iron like do you need to have the same grip thickness up in a driver? you on p on paper you you perhaps want them all to all to kind of all to kind of marry up and and work. But like sometimes it’s just not the case that you put a bigger grip in the driver and the performance goes up the way. Sometimes it it goes other way. You just have to try these things and if there’s a performance benefit, we’ve found it. If there’s a performance detriment to chopping, changing grip, same sort of thing. We’ve tested these things and we know. Thanks very much, guys. If you want to come into the studio and try some different grip sizes for yourself, please head over to the website at sgggt.co.uk. And for more content, please like and subscribe to the channel. And we’ll see you all again soon. Thanks. [Music]