Equipment
SuperStroke TX1 Tour Extreme Club Grips
“What’s the perfect grip?”
That’s the question SuperStroke President Dean Dingman asked the company’s PGA Tour rep, who passed on the same question to Tour players. The result, after several years and countless prototypes, is the company’s new TX1 Tour Extreme Club Grips.
From a design standpoint, Dingman says the grips aren’t too different from what golfers currently have on their clubs. They’re not oversized or non-tapered like the company’s putter grips — that’s not what Tour players wanted. It’s the proprietary blend of two rubber compounds that he called “very different.”
[quote_box_center]”[Designing a grip] is like baking a cake,” Dingman said. “The hardness, the size, the taper, everything has to be right. “Grips are different shapes … we spent a lot of time giving these the shape and feel tour players wanted.”[/quote_box_center]
The grips offer golfers a blend of traction and control with a cord-infused upper portion and non-corded bottom portion that creates a softer feel.
The TX1 Tour Extreme Club Grips ($10.99 each, 52 grams) are available in five colors: (black/white), (red/white), (blue/white), (gray/white) and (green/white). Mid-Size grips ($11.99 each, 62 grams) are available in (black/white). Both grips are round.
Expect them in stores between mid-February and early March.
This week, we have our Tour Photographer, Greg Moore, on the ground at the OccuNet Classic at Tascosa Golf Club in Amarillo, Texas, for the 14th event of the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour season. With that, we see some great things in the Lead Tape Report as we roll into Amarillo.
Joel Thelen
Monday Qualifier, Joel Thelen is in the field this week. He has played on the Korn Ferry Tour for a full season in 2023, and he is back in action this week. A couple of clubs caught my eye this week in his bag.
First off: His trusted Titleist 816 H2 hybrid. This club came out in October of 2015, and it still remains strong in the bag. Also, take a look at this Odyssey White Hot OG 7, putting a capital S in the 7S model. This custom neck has some impressive lean for an arm-lock-style putter. The bottom of the putter is covered in tape for optimal weighting.
Mitchell Meissner
Taking a look at Mitchell Meissner’s bag this week, we have some great lead tape coverage. Top to bottom working from fairway metals, irons, and wedges. We can see on the short irons and wedges that there is tape at the base of the grip, adding a little counterbalance. Along with that, some tape on the short irons and wedges as well. Moving to his putter, he rolls the Odyssey 7 Bird putter. Meissner putts left-handed and strikes the ball right-handed.
Bud Cauley had >14 clubs in his bag when photographed prior to the Memorial Tournament.
Driver: Titleist GTS2 (8 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X
3-wood: Titleist GTS3 (15 degrees, B1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Chemical Tensei 1K Pro Red 70 TX
7-wood: Titleist GTS3 (21 degrees, D1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Chemical Tensei 1K Pro Red 80 TX
Irons: Titleist U505 (3), Titleist 620 MB (4-9)
Shafts: Fujikura Ventus Black HB 8 X, True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM11 (48-10F, 52-12F, 56-14F), WedgeWorks (60-K*)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400
Putters: Scotty Cameron Tour Prototype, Scotty Cameron GOLO 6.3 Prototype
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Align
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
In our forums, one user has offered up a prompt for the true sickos, inviting fellow forum members to share every set of irons they’ve ever owned. As to be expected, this is a lengthy forum topic.
@Lamosteve began:
Can you name every set of irons you’ve owned? Here’s mine
Spalding Dots
Spalding Eclipse
Ram Lazer FX
Lynx Parallax
Mizuno EZ Comp
Ben Hogans
Cleveland CG Red
Taylor Made R9s
PING i20
PING iE1
Taylor Made M6
Our members in the forum have been offering up their own collections. Here are a few posts from the thread, but make sure to check out the entire discussion and have your say at the link below.
- macedan: “Started with a hand-me-down Golden Bear set from my brother when I was in high school, never really played more than once a year or got into the game until about summer of 2017. First purchased a set of Cleveland CG4’s (I actually really miss this set sometimes, soft & not terribly large for a GI iron), moved into Nike Vapor Fly’s by the end of the year. Those lasted until spring of 18 when I decided I wanted new, so I traded them in for TM Rbladez. Honestly, although I liked the Rbladez, poor decision on my part, I think this was really about the only time so far that after a week or two I was kicking myself for not staying with what I had. Rbladez stayed with me until late last summer when I switched to P790’s and (knock on wood) I am hoping this will be my longest lasting set.”
- JimmyC59: “MacGregor Jack Nicklaus Triple Crown. Palmer The Standard. Still play these.”
- jgrzask: “Tommy Armour 845u
Mizuno MP-32
Mizuno MP-33 (2 sets)
Bridgestone J33cb – still own
Srixon i-302 (2 sets) – still own
Tourstage X-Blades – still own
Mizuno Hot Metal – still own
Nike Forged Blades – still own
Titleist 714 AP1 – still own
Cobra Forged SS – still own”
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Molinator
Feb 28, 2015 at 9:29 pm
Can someone please tell ALL grip manufacturers that there are MANY of us who use jumbo grips and we would appreciate some variety! I’d buy a full set now if Super Stroke made them in jumbo size. Sticking with my Winn Dry tac grips waiting…
Skip
Jan 20, 2015 at 4:02 pm
Can’t beat Iomic Grips.
slider
Jan 23, 2015 at 6:24 pm
yes golf pride and lamkin both better
Jonzy
Jan 20, 2015 at 12:47 pm
Didn’t they try this with the Pressure Zone grips a few years ago? I never had a chance to try them, but I can’t imagine that they were successful or they wouldn’t have pulled them.
RC
Jan 19, 2015 at 10:58 pm
The grips won’t last long from playing. If they lasted too long from playing, they wouldn’t sell enough, so I would expect them to be as bad as New Decades
Golfraven
Jan 19, 2015 at 3:35 pm
I will give those a try. had the GP multi-compound decades but for me those wear out too much on the top due to the structure. Like my Flatso grip so wonder how those will be. Wouldn’t change all my grips at once but start maybe with my hybrid first.
Teaj
Jan 19, 2015 at 3:04 pm
almost looks like Winn/GPand/SuperStroke had a 3 way
Teaj
Jan 19, 2015 at 3:02 pm
I think a solid colour would have been better so not to run into a battle with GP multi’s but I am curious to see how they feel and how durable they are
John
Jan 19, 2015 at 2:14 pm
I’ll stick to my Lamkin Crosslines… great grip at a great price with great durability.
Andy
Jan 19, 2015 at 12:32 pm
It will be interesting to see if as many tour players play these on their woods and irons as their putters. They should just focus on putter grips. It is difficult enough to make a profit in the golf industry with what one is good at.
Tim
Jan 19, 2015 at 12:05 pm
I would love to know where you guys are buying the NDMC grips for $8.00. The Super Strokes are $1.00 cheaper than NDMC for me. My local Golfsmith has them set at $10.99.
Jonny B
Jan 19, 2015 at 1:53 pm
Try looking on this amazing new invention called the internet. The top Ebay golf sellers average around $8/grip. Anything lower than that is probably a counterfeit, but who knows?
Jeff Smith
Jan 19, 2015 at 11:56 am
Bad enough that a good golf pride grip is 10.00 but these ugly looking things for a couple bucks more and with that dumb giant logo. …….. no way!
Mark
Jan 19, 2015 at 11:34 am
couldn’t they make the logo any bigger?!
Raymond Norris
Jan 19, 2015 at 10:42 am
would have been nice to list the gram weight of these. are they standard around 50 grams, or what ? It will make a big difference when regripping.
SuperStroke_Greg
Jan 19, 2015 at 11:06 am
Raymond,
The TX1 Grips weight 52g. The Mid Size option is 62g.
Thanks
Greg
bradford
Jan 19, 2015 at 10:23 am
Any indication whether or not these have a reminder or a rib? There’s only one pic that shows the back and it looks like they might.
SuperStroke_Greg
Jan 19, 2015 at 11:23 am
These are all round grips. We will likely introduce a reminder as we grow the line.
Thanks
Greg
Josh
Jan 19, 2015 at 10:23 am
No orange? Boo. Besides I’d def want to flip these over. The SuperStroke logo is huge.
Jean Cullen
Jan 19, 2015 at 10:17 am
Appears to me to be a clone of the SharpPro grips that I’ve been using for at least the last ten years !! New technology ? Not in my book !!!
Jonny B
Jan 19, 2015 at 10:10 am
Another GP knockoff, except this one comes in $2 more than the multicompound. No thanks.
Stick to the putter grips SuperStroke – the club grip market is too crowded already. You may get a few curious players to try these out, and some carryover from the guys who own your putter grips, but I see you discounting these at least 50% or pulling these completely within 1-2 years. The next Black Widow (look up their failed venture into the grip market)…
For my money you can’t beat Avon or Tackimac grips. If I was going to spend $10 on a grip it would be IOMIC.
Jack Nash
Jan 19, 2015 at 10:39 am
Bought a set of their Pressure Zone grips a while back. Not bad but an easy inch too short. I agree with you. Another GP clone although the the Black Widows aren’t bad.
Chuck Hahn
Jan 19, 2015 at 9:55 am
Where’s the counter balanced putter grip they’ve been promising???
Ben
Jan 19, 2015 at 10:10 am
You must mean this one: http://www.golfwrx.com/275127/superstroke-plus-series-putter-grips/
lsf_21
Jan 19, 2015 at 9:55 am
A new decade that costs more? Thats what we need.
Jim
Jan 19, 2015 at 9:36 am
I’d agree with earlier comments questioning why it took so long to copy the GP NDMC grips. Different look about them but otherwise they seem really similar. And why pay more for these? We’ll see I guess.
Callaway X Hot
Jan 19, 2015 at 9:09 am
I still love my GP multi-compound decades but will check these out this year.
Ben
Jan 19, 2015 at 8:34 am
Interesting…. I’ll give them a shot!