What are we talking about here? The “bits and bobs”? Just another name for components – so shafts and grips etc. Well, we are golf nerds.
In one of the latest episodes of Kick Point, Golf Monthly’s Joe Ferguson puts his selection of the four best-ever golf components to fellow host, Dan Parker.
Why four? Because this is the ‘Mount Rushmore of…’ something which is doing the rounds on social media (four US Presidents, keep up). Still not with us? Just Google it.
Here, according to Joe, are the four best golf components in the history of the sport.
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WATCH: Dan and Joe from Kick Point: The Golf Gear Show discuss the best ever golf components (from 16:47)
1. Golf Pride Tour Velvet Grip
This one is set in stone (a little Mount Rushmore joke there). Released in the mid 1990s, this golf grip can boast 30 years of domination.
“Pretty exceptional,” says Joe. “For me, the perfect mid point grip in terms of texture, tackiness, firmness, and simplicity. Absolutely bob-on.”
Tiger Woods – the GOAT, and one of a great many players to have trusted the Tour Velvet, one of the best Golf Pride grips, throughout his career – would agree.
(Image credit: Golf Pride)
You will of course find the Tour Velvet and its various other models in our best golf grips guide: ribbed, round, jumbo, undersize, Plus 4, and Align.
Earlier this year, at the Abu Dhabi Championship HSBC Championship, every player in the field played with at least one Golf Pride grip.
Ok, so not all of them were Tour Velvet grips, but this “versatile favorite” was everywhere – and has simply been a mainstay in the world of grips for years.
Joe’s particular favorite would be a Tour Velvet 360 in neat black. No patterns. “I like simplicity,” he says.
2. True Temper Dynamic Gold Shaft
(Image credit: True Temper)
Next on the list, it’s the True Temper Dynamic Gold shaft. Once again, this is about longevity, and tour and recreational usage.
“When we do ‘What’s In The Bags’ with players, it’s always Dynamic Gold True Temper Tour Issue X100 shafts in the irons down to X400 in the wedges,” says Joe.
There are, of course, exceptions, and as Joe points out,…
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