Wedge Guys just made a neon green golf grip. Just the color. That's the whole news here, and I'm not going to dress it up as engineering. But fresh grips are still the cheapest thing you can do for your golf clubs, and this one nobody else in your group is going to be holding. It's in stock on the site right now. They're $5.99 a grip, and you pick standard, midsize or oversize.
What's new
Neon green is now in the GLP Velvet line, which puts them at ten colors. You've got neon pink, neon yellow, neon orange and now neon green on the loud end. Then black, white, red, gray, midnight blue and retro blue if you'd rather behave yourself.
So what does a bright grip actually do for you? Think about the last time you played with three guys swinging the same irons you swing. Same black grips, same bags, everybody's clubs sitting in the same cart, and somebody is wiping down your 8 iron. Or you're standing in a bunker in a hurry and you pull the 56 when you wanted the 60. Put a loud grip on the wedges and you quit doing that.
Under the color it's the same grip. GLP Velvet is full rubber with no cord anywhere in it, and Wedge Guys puts it on the soft end of their own firmness chart. Soft rubber means a cushioned, tacky feel, and I haven't squeezed this one yet, but that's the trade you make going velvet. It gives a little when you grab it. It also takes some of the sting out of a thin one on a cold morning.
They've got a firmness comparison and a grip finder quiz sitting right on the homepage. Use them. Feel is the reason golfers end up hating a grip two weeks after they put it on, and a photo tells you nothing about it.
Shipping's free over $75, which a full bag's worth of grips will usually get you to anyway.
Who it's for
If your grips are shiny and slick and you're squeezing harder just to hang on to the club, then this is the cheapest fix you have. Go do it. Your hands tense up when a grip slips, and tense hands hold the club face shut through impact.
If you just want your clubs to look like your clubs, neon green does that. Nothing wrong with buying a grip because you like what you see down there.
Now here's the catch, because there's always one. There's no cord in this thing at all. If you sweat through a glove by the 6th hole, or you play somewhere humid where the rain shows up every afternoon, cord grabs back when your hands are soaked. Wedge Guys sells GLP Cord and Diamond Cord in the same lineup, and that's where I'd point you instead.
The call
A neon grip isn't adding a yard. But worn out grips cost you shots, and grips are still the cheapest repair on a golf club.
So if you were regripping anyway, grab the green and mark your wedges while you're in there. If your hands get wet and stay wet, go corded and leave the neon alone. And if your grips are still tacky and nothing's slipping, keep your money until they are.
The full color range is on the Wedge Guys site.
Source: Wedge Guys official product page
Product image courtesy of Wedge Guys
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Paul Liberatore
Paul Liberatore is the founder of Golfers Authority and a former four-year golf gear contributor to Sports Illustrated. He tests golf equipment hands-on to help golfers make better buying decisions.