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.
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Neal Shipley, AKA, the “Big Fridge’s,” custom stamping
Neal Shipley was the first to admit that he enjoyed his food while in college. But since his days at Ohio State, he’s slimmed down and earned a PGA Tour Card.
That hasn’t stopped him from having fun with his wedge stampings, though it’s led to some misunderstandings.
On the 54 (degree), we have ‘Big Fudge,'” Shipley told GolfWRX. “It was supposed to be ‘Big Fridge,’ so this happened a little while ago. ‘Big Fridge’ was a nickname between my college teammates and I, with ‘fridge’ meaning stomach, a big stomach.

“We told the Ping guys to put … ‘Big Fridge’ on it, and I think maybe some bad cell service or something, and they thought I said ‘fudge,’ so they put fudge on it.”
On Shipley’s 50-degree he also continues the food theme, this time with his go-to order at the “Golden Arches,” and his stamping “DONS 7.”
“The number 7 meal, the two cheeseburger meal, that was my McDonald’s order, back when I would have McDonald’s frequently,” Shipley shared.
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Whats in the Bag
Maria Torres WITB 2026 (June)
Driver: Ping G440 LST (9 degrees)
Shaft: Accra TourZ Green 5-M4

3-wood: Ping G440 Max (15 degrees)
Shaft: Accra TourZ Green 6-M4

5-wood: Ping G440 Max (19 degrees @18)
Shaft: Accra TourZ Green 6-M4

Hybrid: Ping G440 (23 degrees)
Shaft: Oban Isawa Red Hybrid Shaft 04 Flex 70 Gms

Irons: Srixon ZXi7 (5-P)
Shafts: Aerotech SteelFiber Private Reserve i80

Wedges: Cleveland RTZ (50-MID, 54-FULL, 58-MID)
Shafts: Aerotech SteelFiber Private Reserve i105

Putter: L.A.B. Golf OZ.1i
Shaft: ACCRA Putter Shaft

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet











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!