I have seen on here that a lot of players prefer to have their grips put on with the logo down. What is the reaon for this... at the golf shop that i work at i have never had anyone ask me to do this and i was wondering why people prefer this... i have done probably a couple hundred sets in the last 3 years and never have seen this.... thanks


KYLER

I prefer the clean look of it.

Some like a clean look and some grips can be kind of busy with logos and the like.

couple hundred sets? hard to believe that nobody asked for logo down. dealers do it standard when i order clubs, and i don't even ask.

This is kind of along the lines of people removing the shaft lables or manufacturers turning the shaft graphics under as well. Some people don't like to have any "distractions" while standing over the ball. It never used to make any difference to me but I've been using Lamkin Tour Black cord grips for several years and they have the logo on the back to begin with, so anything turned forward looks a little odd to me.

i do it because not all logos are perfectly lined up and with the logo up i find that i am prone to grip it based on where the logo sits in my hands as opposed to where the club face is pointing....so logo down and clubface aligned works for me

Some like the logo down and some don't care. It has to do with personal preference.

I have both and don't notice any difference.

Frankly, if I'm lining up my shot and my thoughts are on the looks of the grip or shaft, I might as well get back in the cart and not bother swinging the club.

Because Tiger does it. He was the first I ever heard of doing it.

I always go logo down, here's why............

..........Some installers don't install the logo on the grip aligned properly, as they don't take their time to align it properly. Therefore when you take your address position, it looks "offset", or twisted somehow. It's easier for me to avoid the distraction and always install grips logo down.

My thumb tended to rest on the logo when they were logo up (Tour Velvets.) I don't notice it as much with it underneath and contacting my index finger instead.

I heard a few years ago that the pros would turn their grip names down because...

The majority of grips are Golf Pride, and Golf Pride refuses to pay pros for using their grips.

2 reasons I always prefer it down....

1) I like as few distractions as possible when addressing the ball
2) When logo's are up, it is nearly impossible to have them all exactly aligned and I find this causes more harm than good...

Piggybacking on the shaft logos down, I think it is because it is easier to get the logo in a picture in the follow through when the shaft is down. And of course now that I think that, there aren't many pictures on getty images to support my point.

the the shop i got my clubs regripped at put them up and i wanted them down. They dont seem to bother me that much but id rather have them down for

1) like most people it can be kinda distracting looking at "golf pride" all the time
2) it looks cleaner and makes me check to make sure my leading edge is square
3) tiger does it so we all should haha.

But what i can never figure out is why do people keep all the stickers on their clubs and shafts when they buy new ones. Like the white sticker on the shaft and the R,S,X, on the club head...just take it off!

Could someone post a pic of a "logo down" grip. Call me an idiot, but I don't understand how this works. Aren't logo already imprinted on the grips? Help the Naive one!!
Thanks

yes they are already imprinted but grips come seperate from shafts, not sure if you know that. Also the grip is the same all around, 360*...its the same texture and feel. So what we mean when we say "logo down" is at address you dont see the logo, it is underneath(facing the ground). So when you put a grip on the club, put it on so it would be facing the ground at address. Not rocket science...logo down means logo down haha.

I know sergio does it:

I too prefer the logo down,,and have been doing it that way long before I ever heard Tiger's name.That being said I now use the Golf Pride "Decade" grip and if I put the logo down it changes the layout and feel of the grip,,,so I've learned to live with the logo up.

GOT IT!
I have re gripped my clubs before on my own and in my head I couldn't visualize LOGO DOWN. To me its LOGO UNDER. I get it now.

I am an idiot!

oh no your not...you just had a blonde moment haha.

Greg Norman was doing it in the late 80s.

Holy cow! If you guys are looking at the bottoms of your grip at address, you've got big, big problems.

uh hello people were playing golf pre tiger and putting the label down.

Edit by mod: Please watch your language

I also have the logo down on my GP Tour Velvets. Like a lot of people say I like the cleaner look, but it also helps me with alignment.

I had a tendancy for my right hand to rotate underneath the club in my setup. With the GP logo down, when I grip the club the right way I can just feel the edge of the "G" in the correct portion of my index finger. I barely notice it now, but whenever I hit a bad shot I can quickly tell if my grip was off by checking for the feel of the "G".

I do it because Greg Norman, Tiger and Davis started it with the Tour Velvet Cords. I want to feel like I am a tour player by doing everything a tour player does. When Tiger's lob wedge didnt have a ferell(spelling) I cut mine off and wham I am just like Tiger. I just want to look like I have a game because more people will see my and my clubs but less will likely ever see me play.

JMTC,

EF

JJ, but there is some truth to it. :crazy:

a lot of guys (including me) just prefer the clean look to a logo down grip... plus when you're regripping your clubs its a lot easier cause you dont have to worry about getting the grip on perfectly straight or now

some proline grips are manufactured with the logo on the underside (e.g. Titleist version of GP tour velvet cords). the butt cap writing is right side up with the Titleist down on the grip.

also, if you use ribbed grips you can't install them upside down.

i personally don't care and have clubs with both. that being said, next regrip will be done by me with logos down

'A blonde moment' - just like the girl in your avatar has all the time

when you grip down with the logo up, i often get blisters from the rubbing of the logo. Gets fairly bad- so logo down all the way

1) Don't have to install it perfectly.

2) When I grip down, the logo is much more noticeable under my thumb than index finger.

So, logos down for me.

had a set regripped didnt ask for logo down but they put them that way and ever since thats how ive done it because now logo up looks extremely goofy to me

I just think that most people that are going to pay someone else to put their grips on for them, aren't going to care where the logos are.

No offense to anyone here, but regripping clubs is easy. I'd assume that most people on these forums regrip their own clubs. I think it's just the nature of golf nuts who would be on golf forums day and night. We're equipment junkies at heart and like to tinker with our own clubs. The casual golfer would probably just pay someone to do it and not even know that putting the logo down is something people do.

Then again there are people here with extra cash and no time to regrip clubs so they have someone else do it.

Fifty cents a club + grip while try out all the new clubs on the launch monitor = me not doing my own grips. hehe

I don't really care... I have GP new decades so the logo is up since it messes up the pattern otherwise.

What I find funny is the people who say its distracting in their swing... if your looking at your grips in your swing than you have problems!

I also have both, and don't even notice if it's up or down. So, it's no big deal for me.