Golf Club Regripping

Golf in Sicily: tee beside the sea with Sir Rocco Forte in Verdura

"Now Dad, remember you are meant to let the journalist win,” said Irene Forte, as we headed up to the clubhouse at Verdura, Sir Rocco Forte’s sparkling new golf and spa resort in southern Sicily. Sir Rocco dismissed his daughter’s mock concern with a grin, for whether he is wearing golf spikes, running shoes or tassled loafers, second place is first loser for this British-born Italian.

I had heard much about his famously competitive nature, so when Sir Rocco had strolled into the marble lobby the previous evening clad from head to toe in golfing gear, I thought the psychological games might have begun already. In fact, he had suffered a rare loss: Alitalia had mislaid his luggage and his outfit had been hastily commandeered from the golf shop. But I was not mistaken about his apparent golfing obsession; Rocco would spend most of the next few days practising his swing. He is a man who likes to leave little to chance.

That is why, in 1996, the forced sale of the family business must have been hard to take. His father, Charles, had built it up from nothing to an empire of 800 hotels and 1,000 restaurants – but the hostile £3.9 billion takeover of the Forte Group by Granada, a former British media and catering conglomerate, was one of the most acrimonious the City had seen. Sir Rocco had been out shooting when the news broke; 15 years on, you sense he still smells the gunpowder of this shot right to the heart of the business.

Out of the ashes of one empire, the foundations of another have been built – those of Rocco Forte Hotels, a collection of 13 upmarket hotels across Europe which includes The Balmoral in Edinburgh, The Lowry in Manchester and Brown’s, one of London’s flagship hotels, where Rudyard Kipling based himself. It is in this luxury sector that Sir Rocco wants to be king of the jungle – and at 66, his foot remains pressed firmly to the floor, with openings in Cairo, Jeddah, Marrakech and Abu Dhabi.

Regrip Golf Club | Golfing Grips

Are the grips on your clubs getting a little worn? You recognise worn grips are a problem and may cost you strokes, right? You recognise you ought to have gotten a good deal of new grips numerous time ago. Maybe you have been meaning to take your clubs down to a golf shop, but they charge an arm and a leg for their grips. In addition, it is just too much hassle. You have thought regarding regripping your clubs yourself, but you have heard that it might take a heap of special cognition or equipment.

Does any of that sound familiar? Believe me, all over this country, it is a intimate situation. All of us novice golfers delay regripping our clubs way, way too long. It might be the money, or the hassle, or just lack of motivation. Whatever the reason, the result is the same. You lose strokes out on the course when you play with worn, slick grips. No body likes that!

Do you ordinarily take your clubs down to a golf shop to get a new set of grips? No problem! However, you must be mindful of the costs related with having your clubs regripped by an individual else. The basic costs are the grips themselves and also the labor to install them.

If you are like me, you like to recognise the details of an expense like this. Some shops charge a sure price for the grips and likewise a discerned fee for labor to install them. In that situation, you at least may determine the price being charged for the grips. Some shops will just charge a flat fee for a regrip job. If so, there is no way to recognise what price you are paying for the grips. That is a little bothersome.

I guess I am a little bit of a “tightwad” or something. I would like to get the best price I may on any grips I buy. The best way to do that is to shop around and compare. There are a heap of actually good deals to be found on grips from time to time. That’s a good way to save a lot of cash. If you don’t mind a little shipping there are likewise some very good prices available on the Internet. Once I have new grips, I regrip the clubs myself for even more savings. It’s not a difficult task. Like a lot of things, a little education goes a long way.

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