Golf Grip Size: Hand Chart, Core Size and Tape Wraps

Golf Pride’s chart uses the upper hand, measured from the wrist crease to the middle fingertip. Keep the method consistent when comparing sizes. Its glove-size cross-reference is a secondary starting point, not a precise conversion between every glove and grip manufacturer.

The published bands contain rounded boundaries. If your measurement sits between them, try neighboring sizes rather than inventing a universal rounding rule. A junior grip is not determined by age alone. Club length and total weight belong in the separate junior club-sizing guide.

A .580 or .600 core designation describes the nominal inside diameter in inches. It is not the finished outside diameter or the hand-size category. The shaft butt diameter matters too.

Golf Pride’s core-size guidance explains that a .580-core standard grip installed on a .600 shaft can feel thicker and firmer than a .600-core standard grip on that shaft. That comparison does not establish a finished diameter for a different model, material or tape build.

Golf Pride’s build-up guidance describes changing size and taper with tape. But a number of wraps is incomplete without tape type and thickness, overlap, placement, shaft diameter and grip model.

Full-length wraps and additional lower-hand wraps do different jobs. Do not assume that a fixed number converts every standard grip to midsize, or that a larger grip will cure a particular ball flight. Record what the shop actually builds.

1. Keep the club, shaft, grip model and nominal size fixed.
2. Change one build variable, such as the tape arrangement.
3. Measure outside diameter at identical marked distances from the cap, using the same method and tool.
4. Record the tape brand, thickness and exact placement alongside those measurements.
5. Try the sample before authorizing the rest of the set.

This is a measurement protocol, not a report of two grips we installed. No physical measurements or performance test results are claimed. Use the regripping cost comparison once the specification is settled.