The weekend golf course warrior will usually neglect cleaning their golf clubs on a regular basis and there are a lot of reasons why you should clean your clubs regularly.
Whether you see it or not moisture can collect on your clubs and even though your clubs are made of weather resistant materials moisture can get in to places that can cause problems. Moisture left on your grips can loosen their tackiness. Moisture getting under your grips, over time, can loosen them from the club shaft. Deposits left on the club face can sometimes harden into difficult to remove spots that can affect the flight of the ball. Cleaning your clubs should be a weekly ritual and you don’t even need to buy anything different than you would use to clean your house.
When you clean your clubs you need to make sure that you get into every groove on the club face and clean everything out. The materials you will need to clean your clubs are a bucket with warm water, regular strength dish soap or even a liquid hand soap works fine, an old toothbrush or you could even spend a little here and get a club cleaning brush for a couple of dollars, spray on glass cleaner preferably one that is vinegar based, and a few dry towels. Half fill the bucket with warm water and add just a tablespoon of the soap. Take your pitching wedge, or whatever club you want to clean first, and put it in the bucket and mix the water and soap together. Pull the stirring club out and put the brush to the club face and rub it completely clean. Get the water off the club with one of the towels and then spray the club completely with the vinegar glass cleaner (grips included). Then take a towel and dry the club completely. Not only will it shine in the sunlight just like the day you bought it but the vinegar removes any possible rust spots and it also helps to bring a bit of tackiness back to your grips.
Repeat the process for all of your clubs including your putter. Never take for granted that your putter is clean. One spot of build up on your putter that you neglect could make that birdie putt go awry. Make sure you dry the club completely before you move on to the next one. Lay out a larger towel on the floor and just place the clubs on the towel and let the clubs air dry over night. This is just a precaution but you have to assume that no matter how hard you try to dry your clubs with a towel you will probably leave some moisture on them. Air drying them overnight makes sure that the moisture left on your clubs from cleaning them does not get a chance to do any damage in a dark and probably damp golf bag.
Make this a weekly ritual and you will find that your clubs retain that brand new look, and feel, for a very long time. This will also help you save money on grips as you will have to replace them less often if you continue to clean them properly and it will also help your game as you will no longer have those little gremlins on your clubs that can cause your ball to go in all kinds of strange places. Remember that cleaning your clubs cannot improve your swing, that is up to you.
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Tue, Jan 6, 2009
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