20 Best Grips For Sweaty Hands (2023 Updated)

I’ve used only Golf Pride grips for almost 30 years now with total satisfaction, except for the grips that come on stock clubs. When I grip my drivers, these are the best I’ve found for my likes. tour velvet on my irons and these tour velvet cord on my drivers.

I’ll never use any other grip for my drivers. My gripping technique: I use Acetone to clean off any tape residue. I think Acetone is too harsh for solvent IMHO but it will work if that’s all you have.

Acetone is basically finger nail polish remover and if it is strong enough to remove fingernail polish, I think it could damage my driver shafts. I worry that it will eat the carbon fiber shaft outer material if I leave it on too long and it will strip too much glue from the tape and grip interior, but that’s just me.

I use mineral spirits for the gripping process and it works extremely well. So I cut off the previous grip with a hook Milwaukee folding razor knife. The hook tip is perfect for removing golf grips, one quarter of an inch at a time.

Once the grip is removed, I use Acetone and my fingernail to get the previous grip tape off entirely. I also remove any scantron paper labels which were left on the shaft during factory assembly. The graphic stickers are cool and I leave those.

Once the shaft is clean I take the new Golf Pride Tour Velvet Cord and remove the plastic and insert a golf tee into the small hole keeping in mind it needs to be secure enough to be water tight. I set it aside and grab a roll of single sided 1 7/8″ “build up” masking tape from the most popular golf assembly supply company online and side-wrap the shaft once from about 1/4″ from where the grip end will sit (keep in mind the shaft will sit about 1/8″ from the end of the grip handle once inside the grip when you’re done) and leave about one inch of free tape above the end of the shaft as I smoothly wrap the tape in place from the bottom of where the grip will end to the butt end of the shaft.

Most shafts will cause a slight overlap of the tape at the bottom but a small 1 mm gap will develop as you move toward the butt end. I smoothly press it onto the shaft with no bubbles or creases working those flat with a fingernail if they happen and then grap that 1″ of free tape and roll it like a cigarette and push it into the open hole at the butt end of the shaft.

I will do this with both layers of tape to provide for some material for my digital sensors that have to screw into the grip for my golf tracking app. The screw tip on the sensors holds better and for longer time if I do this with both layers of tape so there is a lot of tape material just inside the butt end of the shaft.

Then I do the same with the 1 7/8″ double sided tape from the same online company. I attempted to layers of singe sided “build up” tape the first time I got build up tape and my grip stopped about two inches onto the shaft like a Porsche GT3 braking hard at Nürburgring! I had to cut that off and begin again so make sure to use double sided tape on your outermost final tape layer! Again, I cut about 1″ of free tape and roll and tuck that into the end of the butt of the shaft.

If there is a little bit of crown due to these it won’t matter becuase I left about 1/4″ of play near the bottom of the grip between where the tape ends and where the end of the grip will be. The grip doesn’t need to stick all the way to the end.

Only really where your hands are. Then it’s time to dissolve the grip glue and wet down the double sided tape – all with the same batch of mineral spirits that you will use to pour into the grip and wash it around to dissolve the glue.

TRICK TO MAKE THIS AN EASY PROCESS: Before you fill the grip with mineral spirits grab the grip with your right hand (left hand if you’re left handed) and orientate it how you want the logo to go once it’s on the shaft.

For me, all of my clubs are logo down as you hold the clubs. I don’t like to see a logo when I play. So the tip is this. you’ll be attempting to push the small hole of the loose grip over the butt end of the now double taped driver shaft.

This isn’t impossible to do but if you don’t grip the grip correctly, it will bend and move and the mineral spirits will be drying out, which if left too long you won’t be able to get the grip onto the shaft easily.

So if you grip the grip properly, BEFORE YOU FILL IT WITH MINERAL SPIRITS, you will be able to immediately push it onto the shaft easily. So I grab the grip with the logo in my four right finger curves (logo down) and I line up my right index finger with the two white rings at the end of the tour velvet cord grip.

This will leave about 1/4″ of grip end remaining. This is a good distance to both allow for you to cap the end with your thumb and wash around the mineral spirits inside the grip to dissolve the grip glue; slowely poor the mineral spirits over the grip tape length; and then immediately slide on the grip over the butt end and all the way down onto the shaft in one smooth controlled and medium speed motion.

The key to good gripping is to have this good hand hold BEFORE YOU PUT MINERAL SPIRITS INTO THE GRIP. And since this hand hold method makes it difficult to plug the small hole at the butt end of the grip with your other hand, the golf tee is essential to plug that hole during the process.

You’ll remove that tee right before you slide the grip the last three inches or so onto the shaft. So here is when I prep a good foundation for the driver head to sit in while I push the grip on the club.

My garage has a one layer brick step up into my pantry. I use that brick layer to push the driver head against as I push the grip onto the shaft. I take my 1992 Masters golf beach towel and fold it up nicely for a padded foundation that will both protect the head and keep it steady as I push against the brick edge during the process.

I open the bottle of mineral spirits; grab the grip in my right hand, logo down, and put a small funnel into the open end of the grip; and poor about 30ml (I measured the volume to be 40ml so this will both leave a little bit of room in the grip and provide enough mineral spirits to pre-lube the tape prior to installation) of mineral spirits into the funnel and into the grip.

You can use a graduated shot glass to do this. The 30ml line is almost to the top and easy to find. Once the 30ml of mineral spirits is in the grip, discard the funnel into the sink and cap the end of the grip with the thumb of your hand that is already grabbing the grip.

Now, you’ve got a great hold of the grip to easily slide it onto the butt end of the shaft, AND you can cap it off with the same thumb that is gripping the grip. The golf tee should keep any of the mineral spirits from running out of the butt end and you can slosh the mineral spirits around inside the grip for a while to release/activate the grip glue (if there is any, I don’t really know, but you are at least coating the inside of the grip with the mineral spirits if there isn’t).

I usually do this for 45 seconds to one minute, max. When the grip glue is “activated” I take the golf club, butt end down, over my pantry deep sink and slowly pour out the mineral spirits over the length of the grip tape, from the left to the butt end and back if more liquid is in the grip, thinking that all of the tape must be wet down by the small amount of mineral spirits in the grip.

This will make the grip slide on smoothly. You don’t want any dry grip tape area. It should all be wet with mineral spirits from the grip. Now I immediately remove the golf tee with my left hand making sure I don’t release the grip from my right hand so there is a hole through which air can escape as you slide the grip on; and I take the club in my left hand out into the garage, just 10 feet away and place the driver head down on the Masters towel that is already in place and take the grip that has been sitting in my right hand without moving from my right hand this entire time and push the open hole of the grip over the edge of the shaft butt end and slide it down as far as I can before I release my right grip position.

Now you can let go and regrab the grip to slide it all the way on. Then line the white dashes up with the face of the driver and you’re all set! A few extra tips: As you slide the grip on, the friction of the tight grip is going to “squeegee” that mineral spirits off of the tape and deposit it onto the bare surface of your driver shaft.

This isn’t an issue if you wipe it up but it will be a mixture of mineral spirits, interior grip glue (if there was any) and sluff off tacky tape glue from the double sided tape. As the mineral spirits then evaporate, all that glue and tape residue will be left on the shaft which you can clean off with Acetone, no problem.

But a good way to minimize this is to take a paper towel (I use a blue shop paper towel) and fold it up and wrap it around the shaft and tape that around the towel so it sits just below where the grip will end up.

This will then be used to quickly wipe around the shaft to absorb that squeegeed off solvent mix as it comes off of the tape. Makes for easier clean up. Finally, when you first start doing this you are probably going to get mineral spirits on the outside of the grip, which you can clean up pretty quickly.

The more you do this, the more you’ll figure out how to put a grip on with zero solvent getting on the outside of the grip surface, which is very satisfying. Gripping is very easy, when you think about it and come up with your own techniques for making it a fun and rewarding process.

I grip my clubs once per year, at least, and these Golf Pride Tour Velvet Cord grips are the best I’ve ever found. Thanks Golf Pride! Keep it up. Oh, another finally: Most driver shafts are the “60 round” diameter shafts and you should use that size unless you know you have the smaller radius shaft! Then you should examine the 58 round size.

You’re welcome!.

Classic style grip that has been a standard for quite a long time. It gives a good balance between feel and comfort. Not so firm that is hard on the hands, or so soft that you loose feel at contact. They provides good grip in multiple weather conditions.

I also like the taper profile. The one complaint I read from others is with durability. They can begin to get a little slick with time. I find that if I take a little time to wipe them down after several rounds and even use the a club cleaning brush once in awhile I will get easily over 100 rounds with them.

I try other grips, but always come back to tour velvets.

I’ve been using these grips for the last 10 years. Such a shame that retailers are no longer interested in selling the super tack, I suspect their focus is on grips selling for twice the price! These grips allow for the perfect blend of simplicity and feel of a regular Tour Velvet, and the wear and traction of a corded grip.

Anyone who I play with who picks up a club makes a comment on this grip, and it’s always positive. I’ve personally converted at least 4 players to these grips like this! Please, PLEASE Golf Pride, NEVER stop making this grip! I honestly didn’t even know you sold grips direct until I could no longer find these in stock at any of the various retailers.

Even major chains would only have a couple in stock system wide!.

Best overall grip on the market today. Other grips will spoil you, until you find you have to replace them at least once a season. I’ve tried most of the best ones over the decades. These give MUCH longer wear and more feedback.

The feel may put some people off as it’s not “spongy”, but they’re very easy to hold on to. And I hit the ball hard and play by feel which is where the jumbo size comes into play. It allows much more control for your hands over your shot shape.

Less important for high handicappers, but I play blades rather than game improvement irons. These will make you feel good regardless, the only con being the price disparity between regular, midsize and jumbo grips.

Jumbo is far too expensive for what you actually get, but makes all kinds of difference over midsize on the course for me. The biggest pro is how long they last vs. something like the Winn Dri-Tacs which feel great new but virtually dissolve over a year or so.

I count the feedback you feel as a pro as well.

First off, I’ve never felt the need to leave a review for a product in my life so this is a first. These were so bad I felt that I had to. I bought 13 of these for my entire set so this was a huge waste of money.

So the grips were incredibly difficult to install, I ruined 3 of them when they got stuck on the shaft midway down. I’ve never had this problem with any other grip in my life, no amount of solvent helped.

I thought they would be like a Wynn dri-tac but they’re extremely firm and very slippery. Nothing like the nice putter grips that superstroke makes. These are horrible grips. Just wrap duct tape around the shaft a few times and use that instead, no difference.

I’ll be going back to golf pride or Wynn.

I knew I needed new grips and after watching how to do it decided to give it a try. It was easy and after the first few rounds I was so happy that I went and chose these. I got the standard because I do have small hands and the feel coupled with the stableness my irons are all of a sudden flying true again.

It’s funny how you don’t realize as time passes how the club transitions and when all of a sudden with new grips that are quality made your game come back. These are really tacky and have a firm construction so you feel the shot.

My pitching and short irons are now a lot easier to control distance. So glad I choose the Traxions!.

I’ve made a change to my putting stroke and plan on adopting the Pelz philosophy in its implementing it (100 putts a night for 3+ months = 10k putts), and this new grip is critical to it. The changes involve a few things, the biggest of which is how I grip the putter.

It is critical that I not break my lead wrist in the stroke. And with this new SS grip, it’s nearly impossible to do so. My putts as a result hold the line so much better. (I use a laser chalk line so I can see my tendencies and the ball travels down that line almost every time).

I’ve always gamed Golf Pride, and have stuck typically with the Tour Velvet or MCC grips. I’ve been playing with +4 or midsize or midsize +4 and was looking for consistency throughout my bag, and initially wasn’t going to go with Z-grip as they didn’t have a standard +4, but I received these grips on my new Mizunos I received in September and wow, these are amazing.

Going to these from the previous 2 I commented on took some adjustment as these are firmer and definitely have a rougher surface area. but man these work great. I golf in Arizona, so since September I’ve played with them through heat, mild-low humidity, dry, and pretty wet conditions.

Morning, noon, night, these grips will be staying in the bag. I ordered more on Black Friday to go on wedges and an eventual iron replacement. I’ve played over 30 rounds with these already, and aside from my woods I will definitely continue to play these.

I’ve not had an issue with any golf pride grips I’ve gamed, but with the grip shortage COVID brought on it forced me into these ones, and I couldn’t be happier about it.

I bought a single zgrip because I’m deciding whether to regrip my current Tour Velvets with Tour Velvet Cord or Zgrip (two very popular grips on tour, I was looking for better performance with sweat/rain).

Because I hear zgrip is harder/rougher, I thought I wouldn’t like it; I like to feel the tackyness of my grip, one reason I clean them often. I figured I would prefer the tour velvet cord, but the zgrip was much more tacky than I expected, and I will end up regripping my set with zgrip for sure.

Shootout to Collin Morikawa for making me consider the zgrip, originally I was just going to settle with tour velvet cord.

I bought these grips to reduce joint pains on my hands from practice. I’m glove size M but practicing between 150-250 shots daily after 2 months, started to be be tough on my hand joints. I was originaly using standard grip size, so I decided to fit 3 clubs with mid-size grips and another 3 with jumbo.

Ultimately, fitted all my clubs with jumbo, for the last month. My accuracy has improved, meaning the club does not rotate in the palm of my hands and the grip squeeze requires less preassure. After 3 weeks of daily practice, joint pain has been reduced over 80%.

Using this grip on Driver, woods, hybrid, irons and wedges. The additional weight of the jumbo grips can be felt in the longer irons, but not enough to discourage me from performing this lab test. Moreover, the whole set can be quite expensive at $10.

39 per grip.

MCC +4 Midsize Align grips came installed in my factory customized TaylorMade P790’s. They look, feel and play great. I’m very fastidious about my grips and always bring a towel with me to lay my clubs on when I’m away from my bag and at the very least run a damp towel over them before and after a round and before each shot when the weather is damp or extremely hot and humid.

I consider the golf glove essential to a good , confident grip. It goes on and off with every shot and gets replaced after approximately 10 rounds or whenever it loses it’s tackiness. Keeping fresh, undamaged grips on my clubs is cheaper than buying new clubs because of some commercial hyping more distance, higher launch and tighter dispersion.

For about the cost of one new wedge every 12 months or so, I can have a new club feel by replacing my grips and I don’t have to try to adjust my swing to new stuff. Clearly, I’m stuck on my new grips.

I’m sure you’ve seen the commercials about these grips and wondered if they lived up to the hype. I’ll tell you right now that YES! In fact they do! Now, I’ve only had these grips for a few weeks or so, but I’ve played 3 or 4 rounds of golf already and I absolutely LOVE these grips.

They provide just enough tackiness to give you an outstanding grip, without being sticky on your hands. They are extremely comfortable to the point that I’ve used them a few times with no glove on, and I kind of liked having the glove off even better than with the glove on! I bought one first to put on my driver.

Played one round of golf with it and then ordered the whole batch of these grips. I absolutely love them. As a comparison, I have a full set of Callaway clubs with their standard grip. And they are good, don’t get me wrong.

But putting the Winn Dri-Tac 2. 0 Grips on there opened up a whole new world of golf for me. As for Carl’s Golfland – they were very fast in getting the grips shipped out to me. I think I had them within 3-4 days at most.

They were very helpful with some of the questions I asked, and I will definitely be buying from Carl’s Golfland again.

I recently put JumboMax Ultralite grips on my clubs, to help in reducing my draw tendency. I then started taking lessons with a new instructor (3 years after last instruction), and the instructor had me make a significant grip change, making my right hand much stronger (rotated more on top of my left hand).

The grip change made the JumboMax grips feels too big, making my right hand sore after hitting balls. So I bought the oversize Winn Dri-Tac and the oversize Dri-Tac 2. 0 to test them. They are a much better size for my new grip, and the softness of the grip feels very good.

I’m regripping my set with the 2. 0 (it looks better than the original). I install the grips with the seam on top, wording down, and to others who have noted the seam – doing it this way turns it from a bug to a feature, because the seam can then be used to make sure you hold the club in the same way every time.

This review is more about Carl’s than the grips I purchased. I was skeptical when I saw that they had shipped UPS-Post, which is where UPS goes part of the way but USPS goes the last leg. A previous experience with this type of shipping was terrible but the Carl’s shipping was perfect.

I received the grips before I expected and was able to install them before my next round. As for the grips, I live in N. Florida where it’s extremely humid. Holding clubs in the summer can be a challenge.

The Dri-Tac 2. 0 grips are just what I needed. Soft and tacky. Highly recommend. I replaced Golf Pride Victory grips and will never go back.

Its days like this that I wish I wasn’t a family man with a full time job. I sat down to write this review and immediately realized that with a family and full time job I do not have enough time in a day to write all the good things about these grips! Let me start by asking anyone that is reading this if they ride a bike? Next let me ask if you want your grips to freaking work? And do you want them to be freaking sick looking? If you answered yes to all these, then why the are these grips not on your bike!!? First impressions when I pulled them out of the package I screamed “holy crap!!!!” My wife asked what was wrong and she caught a glimpse of the grips and immediately yelled “God those grips are hot!!” I immediately installed these bad boys on my whip and took it for a tear down some nasty downhill slopes! These things blew my mind away! Under even the most extreme riding conditions (including rain) I felt like my hands were glued to these things.

The fact that they are lock on makes the deal that much sweeter! These things will never roll or slide off on you. Elmers glue has nothing on “sticky” when it came to these bad mamajamas!! I highly reccommend these grips to all riders out there that are tired of holding on to cheap, mass produced crap grips that feel like they were just slathered with butter.

!!!!!!!! These grips are the Boss!!!!! Peace out! Chad Hartman (one extreme dude!).

used to use these on my BMX for years, now I use these in my MTB. i moved away from Lock on Grips, and i was getting numb fingers on longer rides due to vibrations. as these arent lock on’s the rubber is alot thicker & seems to absorb alot of the vibrations.

rode 55km in about 3 hours on dirt last weekend and no numb fingers at all. they are a bit of a pain to install, but used the zip tie method i found on the good ole internet in the end and it worked a treat.

these are the soft compound, and are showing minor wear after about 250km over 2-3 weeks, so they definelty wont last forever, but they are cheap!.

Once I removed my old grips and tape, it took no time at all to install. I purchased the air gun and attachment to install grips. It worked great and it honestly did take a 2-3 grips to get the hang of playing with the air/trigger and how much to push the grip with your other hand, but after that it was piece of cake.

I have only played one round with the grips and I love how they feel. Too me they are softer than my old grips and have more tackiness. I move around all over ther country and for work and currently in Seattle area.

These grips will fit right in with the normal wet and currently warm weather we are having. I have been looking at the putter grips, just wish they had some USA patterns. I did themed my clubs, white grips for woods, blue for iron and red for wedges.

Be nice to have a putter to represent USA. The fact the grips are made in USA, is the reason I gave them a chance and I am happy I did! I wish Pure all the best and hope they are successful and keep it in America!.

I’m a real tinkerer when it comes to grips and textures. I feel like I’ve tried all the major ones you’ll see around. But these are the ones I’ve been using for about 4 years now. They just last and last – the only reason I change is colours – I like to alter the look.

They are not quite as good as full cords in the wet – but close enough considering the great feel these have in any other situation. The compound stays just the same as when new – so there is no hardening over time and the colour pretty much stays the same as well.

They are not flashy which I like – they are the Volkswagen Golf of grips. Do the job exceedingly well without having to draw attention to themselves with show-off graphics and designs features. The money goes where you need it – into quality and performance.

If tour pros weren’t paid to use grips, creating the illusion that everyone uses those brands, they’d choose these in droves. And Hank Haney who designed these is only going to design them right.

I NEVER write a review. But my least favorite job just became my most favorite job, and that is remarkable. Once I got the old Win Grips off and the tape and goo off and once I got down to shinny bare metal, it was a 30-second job.

Of course, leaving the grip end of the clubs to soak in a gallon can of “Goof Off” (after cutting the old grip off), took a lot of time, but I just don’t care. Pure Grips exorcised every re-gripping demon I had accumulated.

I can hardly wait till I have to re-grip AGAIN. 30 seconds off; 30 seconds on. Truth is: some inventor noticed that little hole at the butt end of his grip, didn’t he/she? Smart. Wish it had been me.

I’ve used this grip on 3 putters and absolutely love it. It fits my hands perfectly without being uncomfortably to big. This grip is soft & slightly tacky, which I think is great. I would recommend this grip to anyone looking to replace their current grip.

Just give it a try, I believe you will like it.

I bought a set of Taylormade irons as I just started to play in May and wanted to start off right with a fitted set. They came with many options during the selection process, and I settled for the standard grip that come with them (Lamkin 360 crossline).

However, after getting the clubs in October my hands were sore after rounds (no I am not tightly gripping them), and alignment of the hands with the club (which we all know is the one thing that you need) was off.

I looked for alternatives and these caught my eye, literally as it comes in some very nice patterns and has the alignment aids that are staring you in the face (but melded into the design). They also advertised the tapering , which I was impartial too, and if it worked great and if not.

oh well. Went and played my first round at Heather Ridge in Aurora, CO and boy the alignment helped greatly and I broke my first 100 with a 94!!! And I guess the tapering and cushion does actually work as my hands aren’t sore either.

Definitely recommend these bad boys!!.