How to Regrip a Golf Club

A golf club grip is designed to give your club a precise, sure feel. As a grip ages, it hardens and becomes smooth. A new grip will restore your club's performance. Many people send their clubs to a shop for regripping. But you can do the job yourself and take pride in personalizing your equipment.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Remove the club's grip, with a knife if need be. Remove any tape that remains on the shaft, and clean any tape residue using grip solvent and a piece of cloth.

2. 

   Wrap double-sided tape around the shaft, from the end to the point where the grip will stop (see A).

3. Fill the little hole at the end of the new grip with a golf tee. Pour solvent into the open end of the grip. Cover the open end with your thumb and shake it to distribute the solvent.

4. 

   Pour the solvent onto the taped area of the shaft, and slide the new grip onto the club (see B). Remove the golf tee from the end.

5. Make sure the grip is properly aligned. Let the grip dry for 6 to 10 hours.

Tips & Warnings

• Grip solvent is available at golf shops.
• This fix is best performed in a garage; grip solvent can damage floors and rugs.

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on 12/7/2007 Smirnoff Vodka and Grey Goose are good solvents.

[GolfAddict714]

on 12/7/2007 vodka works well as a solvent.

on 9/24/2006 I use paint thinner when re-gripping my clubs. It works amazingly well and doesn't evaporate too quickly.

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on 8/8/2006 No need to buy expensive golf club tape. Just use standard 2-inch wide masking tape and run it straight down the shaft. I just replaced the manufacturer's original grip on my Titlist Volkey wedge and that's what they do. If it's good enough for one of the game's premier manufacturers to use on the #1 wedge on tour, it should be good enough for the rest of us.

Of course you need to use rubber or contact cement to provide the adhesive that would be present on double sided tape.