When even the best new golf irons and drivers won’t help your game, where do you turn?  It could be that you turn to the clubs you already have and apply some maintenance.

We live in a throwaway society and golf is no exception to this rule.  If I hit a bad shot, pitch the club in the water.  If I miss a putt, break the club over my knee, etc.  While I have felt like doing both of those things, I have never had the upward mobility required to maintain that level of golf club replacement purchases.

When was the last time you washed your clubs?  Ok, good, you wash them every week before or after your round.  How about the grooves in the clubfaces…ever check those?  Have you checked to see if the shafts are out of true?  Oh yeah, and let’s not forget your only connection to the club—the grip.  Could your grips use replacing?

I had to go to the hardware store over the weekend to get some items to repair a toilet.  I also had to do some finish work on the oak floor around where some water had leaked.  (This is golf related, I promise.)  While at the store, I learned from a salesperson that a Dremel® tool would helpful with some of the intricate cutting I had to do.  I bought it and sure enough, it was everything the sales person said it was and more!

I looked at all the tools that came with it, and remembering what a pro from Carlsbad Golf had told me about re-setting the grooves in irons, I tried an experiment.  I used the Dremel to cut into the worn grooves to put new life back into some old clubs.  It seems to have worked well.

It also turns out that drivers (metal woods) have a lifespan determined by shape of the face.  The more you use the club over time the less it is able to compress.  The pro showed me a trick to use a business card to determine if the usefulness is gone.  Short of getting compressed air in the head, I do not know what could be done to help these clubs.

I could tell from using the Dremel tool that this might be a service you let the professional club repair people handle.  However, the point is that we sometimes play with our equipment in disrepair until we buy new, instead of investing some time and effort into the ones you have.

When the idea for Gotta-Grip, our product to help rejuvenate golf grips, came to me it was from playing with clubs that were less than two months old whose grips had started to lose that new feel.

I was surprised to learn that a major golf club manufacturer did a study once that showed the number one reason golfers buy new clubs is due to the “feel in the hands” (i.e., the grip).

Our Gotta-Grip golf grip conditioner makes an amazing difference to improve the feel of old grips.

I also check my shafts occasionally to see that they are straight.  With steel shafts, you can sometimes bend them back into shape if you are careful and if they aren’t too far gone.  Professionals can rescue shafts that are beyond nonprofessional straightening skills.

I hope this helps in your quest to decide if the clubs you have will continue to server you well with a little TLC, or if a trip to the golf store is in order.  Those new irons are pretty, aren’t they?  So is the price.

Practice, practice, practice…Enjoy Golf!

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