Sharpro grips

Anyone had any experience with these grips? I'm thinking of changing my grips to full cord grips following a few slippy grip incidents lately in the wet conditions. Golp pride cord grips are about �7.50 a pop while Lamkins are around �5.50. The equivalent Sharpro grips come in at �2 and are also available in a wide range of colours.I know you generally get what you pay for but as I'm not a user of corded grips I'm tempted by the cheaper option to give them a try. Comments go od or bad wouldbe appreciated.Also while on the subject I've been told Sharpro actually own the right to multi compound grips and golf pride pay them for the rights to produce there own, one of the reasons there multi compound grips are so much cheaper. Does anyone know if this is true?

I've used them before Gary and to be honest it's difficult to tell the difference between the two makes (although I've only had experience of the dual durometer versions).  The way I looked at it was that if you change your grips twice a year with Golf Pride, you can afford yo do it 6 times with Sharpro.

As with most things in golf, there'll be people who will insist that the big names are infinitely superior and that the Sharpro's are just inferior copies.  Don't believe them, try them for yourself.

PS - they're probably all made in the same massive factory in China anyway - see any of my usual rants on counterfeit clubs for more info.  

A wet weather glove is much cheaper than changing grips and would be more successful. As to changing grips twice a year, I doubt that I have changed grips more than twice in the last fifty years and then only because I wanted a particular grip to what was on the clubs when I bought them.

 I had to snigger about that one John. Too much emphassis is put on peripherals. I haven't changed my grips for five years or whenever it was I got new shafts for the irons I bought for £30, and not felt the need to do so. If you need to change your grips often all I can say is you're a lucky bugger to get so much golf in or you're gripping to tightly. I play a couple of times a week and do a lot of practice (yes I know I know with the amount of golf I play I should be a much loewr handicap but there you go),

 It reminds me of an interview with the late great bass guitarist Nile Rogers fron Chic. he was asked 'which bass strings do you use?' (most pro players change them every gig) and he said ' which strings do they put on these?'

Ive used Sharpro hald cord before, they are not the same quality as golfpride half cord but they are very good value for money. The cost of regripping a full set with golf pride is so much now that its cheaper to flog your old set and buy new irons!

Agree with David H. If you liken them to tyres, the depth of the tread is greater on the golf prides and the compound is slightly softer in the lower section - If you shop about a bit on ebay etc you can get 2nd run golf prides for pretty much the same price as the sharpros (which come out about £2.50 each if you buy 9+). All sharpro's have the look of the 2nd run GP's (ie the paint run over the black areas), but to be hoest - many people have the 2nd runs and don't notice.  I use the GP 2nd's and haven't found a grip I like better yet for the price . 

An important technical note. The golf prides are mostly .600" core whilst the Sharpro's are all .580" core. The result being that the sharpros feel slightly thicker than the the golf prides on the same shaft.

pedantic point

not a good analogy Chris - it's the rubber that grips the road not the tread, which is why slicks tyres are used for racing.  So a shallower tread will be better....

Sorry

I did't say they gripped better Tim - just trying to explain the difference in how they appear and feel.

BTW - did you get my message earlier about playing sat?

The grips on my clubs are fine but I am looking to get my iron shafts changed from stiff to regular, obvioulsy this will mean regripping the clubs.I just thought while I was at it I would try corded grips over normal to see if they were more advantageous in wet conditions.

Also a set of 8 Sharpro corded grips will cost me less than £20 so it's not really a large finacial outlay but I just wanted to make sure that even at £20 they wern't going to still be a waste of money.

Don't worry Gary, for the price they are pretty decent.

Does depend on the compound as well Tim. Softer equals grip while naturally harder results in longevity. Not sure what that necessarily has to do with golf club grips but for tyres, well that's altogether a different topic. 

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