Question about cleaning grips

[Joejoe26]

Being that cleaning your grips and clubhead grooves is part of improving your game, I figured that this topic would be appropriate to post in here. If i'm wrong, just move it to the appropriate place and let me know.

Anyways, ever since my friend has been hounding me to continually clean my clubs and grips, I have noticed some improvement in my game. It's probably the confidence in knowing that my clubs are as good as they can be. So my question is this, is it bad to clean your grips after every round? When I clean my grips, I'll get a bucket of warm water and put some mild dish cleaning soap in it. Then i'll scrub the grips with the black bristle brush (the ones that usually come with the golf cleaning kit but the softer side). After that, i'll just rinse with water and wipe down.

So is washing after every round too much? Should I only be cleaning the grips once a week? How often do you guys clean your grips?

[Drennen13]

Well to tell you the truth i rarely clean my grips. Definately the grooves and the club heads but i like to get that worn out feeling into my grips. They just make me feel like im getting the best out of my clubs. But plenty of people clean theirs. Thats just my input

[Zeph]

My clubheads are clean all the time. I clean them after each shot, so they are always clean when I need them the next time.

Grips I very rarely clean. I've done it a few times and they feel better the first round, but after that I don't notice much. I'm sure it wont hurt the grips to be cleaned after eah round, but most people I play with don't do it.

Don't think it will make much of a difference on my game though. Clean grooves is mostly important on the short irons and wedges, but I can't imagine my swing would be any different with clean grips. I'm happy with my grip and don't have a problem with losing it during the swing.

[fredloves2golf]

I play 5 or 6 rounds a month. I'll clean my grips monthly. I don't think you'll do any harm cleaning more frequently, it's just rubber after all.

What I like about clean grips is it restores the tacky feeling to them, so I don't feel like I have to grip as firmly to maintain control of the club. Also at the end of the month as I prepare to wash the grips, I never think they're dirty or bad, but the dishwater is always gray or brown when I'm done.

Clubhead gets cleaned after every shot. There's either a club washer mounted on the cart, or keep a corner of a towel wet throughout the round.

[leo3]

I play 2-3 times a week, and clean my grips about every 2 weeks. I like to keep that tacky feel so I don't feel I have to increase my grip pressure to maintain control.

[David in FL]

I carry a large towel on the course with half of it wet. My grips get a quick wet rub and dry before each shot. I don't find a need to clean them beyond that.

Having said that, unless you're scrubbing your grips with something that's so aggressive that it's removing material, you're not going to hurt them by cleaning them.

[DavidFehertysBike]

I carry a large towel on the course with half of it wet. My grips get a quick wet rub and dry before each shot. I don't find a need to clean them beyond that.

Ditto. I do the same exact thing. It works well.

[lumpuckeroo]

I think it depends on how much you play and in what kind of conditions. If I get to play a couple of times a week in the heat and humidity we get this time of year I will clean them more frequently. But I think it would take a lot of cleaning to wear out a set of grips.

[Joejoe26]

Thanks for replying everyone. I might just wipe them down with the windex method and scrub them down every 2 weeks or something. To the people who said about keeping the tacky feeling, that is exactly why I'm doing it. I have a pretty athletic build and I work out a lot so it doesnt take much for me to put too much pressure on the grips. That is probably one of my faults. Keeping the tacky feeling helps me not grip as hard.