Regular or midsized grips?

[toddmlazarchick]

How do you know which you should be gripping you clubs with?  I wear a men's XL glove if that helps?

[MiniBlueDragon]

If I'm not mistaken the way to tell is to grip the club with your left hand as normal and look at your middle and ring fingers. If they touch lightly the grip is correct, if they don't touch the grip is too large and if they touch heavily it's too small.

There's also a hand template many pro shops have which tells you a recommended size.

Bear in mind with the above though that ultimately it's personal preference at the end of the day. I use a men's small or cade medium glove but my grips are better with a single extra wrap under them.

[TourSpoon]

Lamkin's system was dead on for me.

http://www.lamkingrips.com/media/size_chart.pdf

[boogielicious]

I recommend trying one grip on one club.  I wear XL gloves because I have long fingers, but a narrow hand.  You could also wear XL gloves because you have a wider hand.  these would grip the club differently.

[TourSpoon]

More info:

Quote:

Originally Posted by TourSpoon

Here is a post and a grip calculator...

http://thesandtrap.com/t/40350/grip-calculator

A .600 grip on a .600 shaft will give you a standard grip size.  Years ago the OEMs started using .580 grips on their player's clubs to give a slightly oversize feel (@1/64)  and that became the unofficial standard.  See a .580 has to stretch over the .600 butt making it larger than the .600 grip.  To achieve the same feel or size you need @ 1 layer of build-up along with the one piece of grip tape.  Professional build up tape is advertised at a .0075 thickness so it gets it real close.

So you need to go with .580 with no extra build-up or .600 with one extra wrap.

For the record, I have similar measurements and according to the Lamskin website fall into the one extra wrap category. Well, as it turns out I have been playing with .580 grips for the last 20 years so it confirms their assessment.  I hope this helps!

A misized grip is 1/32 over so a standard size with 2-3 layers of tape (depends on thickness) gets you there if you can't find the make you want in the bigger size.