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How your hands are positioned on the golf club has more of an influence on the angle of your clubface at impact than most other factors in the golf swing. We are connected with the golf club in only one place: the grip. 

The grip on your golf club will help improve traction and give you confidence. The right grip can even improve distance capability. We will show you which golf grips are the best for your game and why. 

Why Do Golf Grips Matter?

We are big into equipment and technology and how much of a difference these types of things can make in your golf game. Here’s what to expect from a golf grip: 

The proper grip influences the alignment of the clubface at setup but, more importantly, at impact. Having uniform grips that suit you can lead to consistency and repeatable golf swings. A grip with better traction can increase swing speed and ball speed. The grip’s texture changes the feedback you get on each shot which plays into your overall feel and touch on the course.Golf grips, especially the proper size, will reduce tension in the hands and have positive impacts on tempo and rhythm. Proper grip size and feel can improve the overall ability to control golf shots. 

Lamkin UTx

If you like a cord grip with some tack to it, the Lamkin UTx is a great option. The outer layer of the UTx is firm and made from ACE (a tacky vibration-dampening material). The second layer of the Lamkin UTx is a full cord fabric weave. 

The combination of cord and tackiness helps improve traction and moisture-wicking capabilities. 

The Problem

Keeping your clubs neatly organized in your bag can be a hassle. While bags with 14 dividers offer some relief, bags with fewer dividers often result in clubs clashing together. This not only can leave marks on your expensive clubs but also generates that annoying “bag chatter.”

The Solution

To address this issue, golf club bag clips came up as a potential solution. These individual clips are supposed to not only help efficiently arrange your clubs but also reduce bag chatter noise. Finally, they also claim to reduce wear and tear on your clubs.

How did I find it?

Upon switching from a 14-divider cart bag to a four-way carry bag, I initially felt a bit disorganized during my rounds. My golf clubs no longer had their individual slots and were grouped in a way I was not used to. So I hit Amazon looking for a solution that could mimic the 14-way bag’s organization within the smaller frame of the new bag.

Golf club bag clips caught my attention across various platforms, particularly on Amazon, often boasting ratings around 3.4 out of five stars. With a price as low as $11 for six clips as well as the option for the number of clips you wanted to purchase ($18 for 15), I considered them a potentially good option.

How it worked (or didn’t)

Let’s delve into the performance of these golf club bag clips. Made from a robust plastic, they are pretty easy to attach to the bag in a variety of orientations. Given the plastic is pretty thick, I had zero concern about them breaking or snapping, both during installation and on the course. 

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I teach far more golfers that hit down on the ball too much more than those that don't hit down enough. If you are one of those golfers that typically takes big divots and hits a low ball flight then stay with me....

I have found this sequence to work nicely with all golfers looking to shallow their attack angle and improve the crispness of the strike. Try the following (with either irons or driver):

PHASE 1 - 5 drags over the top of the ball

PHASE 2 - 5 low to high pitch style shots, keeping clubhead low in the backswing

PHASE 3 - 5 half speed and half size swings sensing an ascending strike (even with irons)

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Does that make the golf ball the most important piece of equipment in the bag?

There’s certainly an argument to be made. It’s why we do robot testing every two years and why Ball Lab has become an integral part of what we do at MyGolfSpy.

Our 2023 test is our third foray into the world of ball testing. With each iteration, we’ve learned more about golf ball performance and have uncovered several surprise findings (both good and bad).

We learned “soft” is slow, performance differences are more significant than many golfers believe and a poorly made ball can fly significantly offline, even on a perfect swing.

Do you head to the driving range lugging your golf bag and dragging a small wagon overflowing with golf training aids and golf swing trainers?

We get it. The hope of getting better in golf can really make any training aid seem worth the money.

But all golf training aids are not created equal.

Just like golf clubs, the best golf training aids must offer value and improve your game. Here are our picks for the best golf training aids and some insight into how and why they can help you.

Orange Whip (Best for Flexibility, Speed and Strength)

The Orange Whip is a weighted and flexible shaft with a heavy orange ball on the end. With the Orange Whip, you don’t hit golf shots. Instead, you take swings and work on your swing tempo, a little swing plane and a lot of timing.

As golfers, there isn’t a day that goes by that we’re not inundated with the promise of improvement whether via a new club launch, training aid, fitness method, “a simple trick” or a one-swing “hack” to fix our slice and improve our on-course performance forever and ever, amen. Subscribing to the noise of these promises, you’d be led to believe we all belong on Tour.

But what about the equipment we wear—the great big world of performance apparel? Promises to enhance performance through a myriad of technologies and cutting-edge designs pepper nearly every product description, trying to persuade us that we’re just a $100 polo away from the best round of our lives. While there are undoubtedly benefits to the right equipment, both for our swings and for our bodies, it can be a minefield of features and benefits, the likes of which we seem to hear on repeat.  

And while there is an exhaustive list of features we could walk through in performance apparel, we’re going to keep things high-level. We will focus on the ones we hear about the most to try to understand what they mean, evaluate claims of their virtues and report what each actually means to you, your comfort and, ultimately, your game. 

Three is a Magic Number: Breathability, Moisture Wicking, Stretch

Apparel manufacturers, from the biggest global players to the tiniest upstart brands selling directly to the consumer, generally speak a lot of the same language. But if you peruse the product descriptions of brands across the world, you’ll see most claims generally center around three performance apparel characteristics: breathability, moisture wicking, stretch. Let’s start there.

Breathability

While this one’s relatively intuitive, there’s lots of room for interpretation. In the most general sense of the term, “breathability” refers to airflow. Does the shirt, short or pant allow air to flow freely to allow its wearer to stay cool and dry?  

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