What gloves do you use? I have a Callaway one and I think it's useless. I have been slicing like **** for weeks now, today, I just decided I will take off the glove and play with my bare hands. Guess what?? My slice became almost non-existent.
Gloves are supposed to give you a better grip, but in my case I think the glove is making the club rotate in my hand leading to an open club face at impact: slice. With my bare hands I have a better feel of the club and a better grip and certainly a better swing.
What do you think? I am pretty sure gloves are there for a reason, or else they wouldn't have been used, but as for me, I will play bare-handed, at least for now.
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Posts: 2441 | Location: Egypt | Registered: June 14, 2007
Lucky, It sounds like one of two things were happening for you: 1) your golve was a bit too big for your hand or 2) your hand was sweaty enough to slip insode the golve. This is not uncommon, especially when it's a really hot and humid day or raining. This is why many players carry more than one glove. I make a point to keep two rotating and one new one in my bag at all times. That way, no matter what the elemets are, I always have a dry glove to use. I couldn't play without a glove. I've tried. Something about it juts doesn't feel right. In addition, my hands get slippy on the grips. With taht said, do whatever works for you, but I'd try getting a tighter fitting golve if I were you.
I wear a bog-standard glove and haven't noticed any extra slicing (on top of my normal amount). Maybe you should try a different brand? __________________________________________________
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Posts: 822 | Location: United Kingdom | Registered: March 26, 2008
Whatever brand name I can get a deal on ... FJ, Nike, Callaway, etc. Right now I have a 3pk of Ben Hogan branded gloves in my bag that cost me about $15 with the shipping.
Always wear a white glove; it pleases the golf gods.
Always use a white tee for the same reason. Never use a colored ball unless you are a girly-girl; Jerry Pate's victories were the work of the devil, designed to mislead us from the true way.
Never wear your glove while putting, it insults the putting god (part of the holy trinity of golf gods: the driving god, the putting god, and the god of good and bad bounces and lies).
White tees (we're talking tee markers here) are for wimps; superintendents who use white for the back tees are diabolical like Lewis' Screwtape.
Always play Titleist black (this is from the old days of Balata, but still applies-- red markings are for women and wimps); Black, white, or black-and-white golf shoes are best, brown only sometimes, all other colors are for Ian Poulter-peacock-types who want to tempt the golf Gods to punish their hubris.
I am not in the least bit superstitious on the golf course; these things are facts to be ignored at your own peril.
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Originally posted by minalpharetta: Always wear a white glove; it pleases the golf gods.
Always use a white tee for the same reason. Never use a colored ball unless you are a girly-girl; Jerry Pate's victories were the work of the devil, designed to mislead us from the true way.
Never wear your glove while putting, it insults the putting god (part of the holy trinity of golf gods: the driving god, the putting god, and the god of good and bad bounces and lies).
White tees (we're talking tee markers here) are for wimps; superintendents who use white for the back tees are diabolical like Lewis' Screwtape.
Always play Titleist black (this is from the old days of Balata, but still applies-- red markings are for women and wimps); Black, white, or black-and-white golf shoes are best, brown only sometimes, all other colors are for Ian Poulter-peacock-types who want to tempt the golf Gods to punish their hubris.
I am not in the least bit superstitious on the golf course; these things are facts to be ignored at your own peril.
Hmmm, you may have just uncovered the reason I can't break 30...
--I use colored tees...my wife bought me some pinks ones one time as a joke and my buddies tease me everytime I pull one out...the teasing stops at the 19th hole though.
--I play Callaway balls...but at least they are black.
--I were some colorful shoes...I always have, ever since watching "Dead, Solid Perfect" many years ago..."proper footwear is the key to lower scoring".
Maybe if I didn't tempt the Gods so much I'd shoot in the 20's once in my life!
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Posts: 691 | Location: Nature's Air Conditioned City | Registered: August 21, 2007
Personally I don't like to wear a glove when I play. I agree I have a better feel of the club. I switched to golf pride tour velvet full cord grips years ago and my hands don't slip. Not even in the rain.
Lucky I would also suggest checking your grips for excess wear and re-gripping if necessary.
Lucky, have you considered your swing may be different without the glove? Sometimes, anything new or different will cause you to slow down and concentrate on making solid contact instead of the more comfortable and sometimes bad swing you're used to.
Just a thought.
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I wear a wool glove under the golf glove now, to give myself a better grip and feel. It has been working very good for me, I rarely slice now. I think the glove was a bit lose on my hand that's why the club face used to hit the ball open.
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Wow, that's a new one to me, but as they say, "it's not how, but how many."
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Wow, that's a new one to me, but as they say, "it's not how, but how many."
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Yeah, I know it sounds strange, but I find much more comfortable and practical this way. It's not a really thick wool glove, just one of those thin wool gloves you can wear in winter sometimes.
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Posts: 2441 | Location: Egypt | Registered: June 14, 2007
IMHO, there is only one glove in golf and that is FootJoy, whether it be the Weathersoft or the SciFlex, I'll use either, but no other glove performs like a FootJoy. The same with balls, Titleist is my ball of choice, the ProV1. I've bought 3 dozen of them recently because of the lawsuit with Callaway. This January they'll be taken off the shelves, and who knows what they will be replaced with.
Posts: 857 | Location: Tiger Country USA | Registered: August 06, 2008
with mild psoriasis i am force to wear gloves on both hands and i have tried everything from baseball (more durable) , weight lifting (no finger tips), bull-riding (leather), fishing (mesh cotton with strands of gluelike rubber) and, of course, my famous OJ gloves
even at golf superstores i cannot find gloves large enough in both the right- and left-hand fit so i have to turn a left-hand glove inside out to make it a right-hander
i would prefer to play without them and on occasion i do but then eventually the club feels like a red-hot metal iron in my hands
Originally posted by minalpharetta: Always wear a white glove; it pleases the golf gods.
Never wear your glove while putting, it insults the putting god (part of the holy trinity of golf gods: the driving god, the putting god, and the god of good and bad bounces and lies).
Excuse me, Jack Nicklaus, maybe the greatest putter every, wore a glove when putting.
Wow, that's a new one to me, but as they say, "it's not how, but how many."
