How NOT to put new golf grips on your clubs

Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Categories: Boneheads • Golf Gear • Miscellaneous

I’m putting new grips on my clubs today from UST Mamiya. Testing soon. I’m not the best club grip tech, as is evident by the fact that I not only burned my thumb so bad heating up and removing the old tape with a heat gun, but the fact that I then scraped the freshly formed blister off of my thumb. The best news is that I tee off in about 40 minutes.

All thumbs when it comes to putting grips on clubs...

Don’t try this at home. I’m a professional…

5 responses to “How NOT to put new golf grips on your clubs”

Stefan Koeniger says:

February 3, 2012 at 6:33 am

What did you do!? never got blisters putting on grips! Taking old tape off maybe?
- Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru says:
  
  February 3, 2012 at 10:43 am
  
  Some real old tape wasn’t coming off so I heated it up with a heat gun. That I think gave me the blister, which I didn’t even know I had. Then I was using the thumbs to push the hot tape off the shaft and noticed some instant pain…
The GolfBlogger says:

February 4, 2012 at 1:14 pm

No need for the heat gun. Works just fine with a hair dryer on medium to high heat setting.
David says:

February 5, 2012 at 5:15 am

Ouch! I think that is why it has always been worth it to me to pay someone to put new grips on my clubs.
Electric Golf Trolleys says:

February 7, 2012 at 12:35 am

Ouch indeed!!

Agree, hair dryer normally does the job and far less dangerous!! 🙂