Golf Pride Green Victory Re-Release?!

[coxrl]

Heard from a friend that's a clubmaker that Golf Pride plans on re-releasing the Green/Black Victory grips later this year.

 

Anyone hear about such?

[pccasstpro]

Don't even joke about this !!!!!!

[Masse1369]

I only played that grip for like 12 years. I would switch back in a heartbeat most likely. Wash those with some warm soapy water and they are the best feeling grip ever.

[madaboutgolf]

I had these yrs ago and most other golf mates did also !!

[vman]

I hope the Victory makes a return and in ribbed/reminder.

[shakey]

If they release this grip and it's exactly like the old one, I'll be back to using Golf Pride grips.

[TLfan]

Green full cords please and thank you!

[Marlockey]

They are Still made available for Certain Tour Players. Be good if they released them again

[tatertot]

If this is true, it's awesome news!

If this a lie, it's a cruel joke and the OP must be forced to read only Tiger and "Blade vs. SGI" threads.

[bullrambler]

I played the cords for years. I always wondered why they stopped making them. I guess people got tired of a good thing...!

[wolfpack]

This has to happen, I miss them so much.

[MadGolfer76]

[quote name='TLfan' timestamp='1433864707' post='11718756']
Green full cords please and thank you!
[/quote]

Yes, and yes!

[sevenputts]

I heard from a long time manager at Roger Dunn golf shops that they are re releasing the victory greens. Not sure which models though.

[Buzzkill]

Grip Month: Golf Pride's green Victory set the bar

 

Golf Pride's Victory ( Courtesy of Golf Pride )

By James Achenbach

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Golf Pride’s green Victory grip, arguably, is the most famous grip in the modern history of golf.

The company developed the slip-on grip in the 1950s, and soon after the green Victory emerged as Golf Pride’s flagship grip. It became standard issue for many golf clubs.

In the beginning, while some players stuck with wrap-on leather, it was clear to most observers that the slip-on grip was the future of golf. Today, Golf Pride is the world’s largest manufacturer of slip-on grips. Because it has developed many new styles and colors of grips over the decades – including its latest, the Niion – Golf Pride retired the green Victory in 2006. The grip can no longer be purchased at retail.

However, as bifurcation sympathizers like to point out, the green Victory is one of those equipment items still available to touring pros – even if amateurs no longer have access to it.

Vijay Singh and Bo Van Pelt, among others, still use the green Victory full-cord grip. Golf Pride doesn’t have a storage room full of old green Victory grips, but it does have a manufacturing plant that occasionally is devoted to making new ones.

The original green Victory was made with natural rubber and small pieces of cork mixed into the grip compound. Pros and amateurs alike grew accustomed to the feel and the look.

At one point in the history of the green Victory, Golf Pride decided to make the grip without the stars at the bottom of the grip. After all, they were purely cosmetic. PGA Tour players raised a strenuous objection. The original had stars, and they wanted stars. So Golf Pride replaced them in the same location.

The Victory pattern on the front of the green Victory is familiar to many veteran golfers, and that pattern was transferred to a few other grips over the years, most notably the Velvet Victory Cord in the Tour Velvet family.

Victory remains a familiar name, but Golf Pride has developed other products to accommodate the needs of the world’s best players. Old style or new, official statistics from the Darrell Survey show that Golf Pride grips are used by approximately 80 percent of the players on the PGA Tour.

Tiger Woods uses a Golf Pride Tour Velvet full-cord grip. In the jargon of the trade, its size is 58 round, meaning the grip is round rather than ribbed and has a diameter of .58 of an inch (which is a normal size).

Rory McIlroy plays with a Golf Pride Multicompound grip. It is a 58 ribbed model (Golf Pride says 30 percent of the players on the PGA Tour use ribbed grips). With his switch to Nike equipment, McIlroy is now using a black and white Multicompound grip.

“Golfers tend to be very particular about their grips,” said Bruce Miller, Golf Pride’s vice president of marketing. “They pay close attention to every detail. The grip has to feel a certain way. That describes what we do – we’re in the feel business.”

[rpaige88]

Forgive me for being young but what made these grips so awesome? I'm a huge Golf Pride multi compound fan. Were/are these that much better than the multi compounds?

[Judge Smails]

I've been hoarding all the 58 Round Victory Cord "new" tour stock grips I can find.

I could actually take or leave the non-cord version, but I have never found a grip I like more than the Cords!!!

I hope Golf Pride does the same as Lamkin and has a "tour issue" component of it's website so us nuts can get these retail. And .580 please!!!

[Socrates]

[quote name='rpaige88' timestamp='1433896534' post='11722234']
Forgive me for being young but what made these grips so awesome? I'm a huge Golf Pride multi compound fan. Were/are these that much better than the multi compounds?
[/quote]
The Green Victory revolutionized golf to a certain extent. They made regripping easy. There were others before but not as good and with the "Grip-Rite" marking to align your hands. Before this slip on grip, you had to know how to build up a base using paper tape and wrapping leather onto that.

The grip is not that special today but there is a lot a nostalgia about the grip. That being said, I would still love to have a supply of ribbed GP Victories with full cord.

[texasdave]

Pleas, oh please let them be ribbed.

[AppAlum]

[quote name='texasdave' timestamp='1433898199' post='11722404']
Pleas, oh please let them be ribbed.
[/quote]

That's what she said.

[Tarkata]

Ridiculously Course, leather devouring grips. So what if they dry out and turn to clay. So what if they tear the fingers off of Recreational golfers. Golf shouldn't be about maiming yourself. OEMs learned to sell their clubs with safe grips, not the green skin peeler victory cords.
America.

[Bigmean]

Awesome. I think growing up on those is why I only like harder grips and only really like golf pride......I am find of the Z cord though, and as much as the green victory is nostalgic, I think the z cord and cm are probably better without the awesome vintage status.

[Kenny Lee Puckett]

[quote name='coxrl' timestamp='1433853011' post='11717598']
Heard from a friend that's a clubmaker that Golf Pride plans on re-releasing the Green/Black Victory grips later this year.

Anyone hear about such?
[/quote]they've still been available the entire time dude. but only on tour vans. i'm sure it was because golf pride had to keep all the champion tour players happy for starters. good to here they are going back to it for general public consumption!

[rex235]

My golf friends used to call them Glove Eating grips.

Friend found a stockpile of Gray Golf Pride Victory Cords with Strong Yellow Green trim.....

[texcrom]

Can anyone explain this to me?

The release above says the following....."In the jargon of the trade, its size is 58 round, meaning the grip is round rather than ribbed and has a diameter of .58 of an inch (which is a normal size)."

If .58 is "a normal size", why is it that virtually every grip sold in golf shops is a .60?

This includes every New Decade Multi Compound grip sold.

In fact, typically the only .58 grips I can find are the Tour Velvet Cords, which I use, and have become relatively scarce.

[Socrates]

[quote name='texcrom' timestamp='1433902299' post='11722846']
Can anyone explain this to me?

The release above says the following....."In the jargon of the trade, its size is 58 round, meaning the grip is round rather than ribbed and has a diameter of .58 of an inch (which is a normal size)."

If .58 is "a normal size", why is it that virtually every grip sold in golf shops is a .60?

This includes every New Decade Multi Compound grip sold.

In fact, typically the only .58 grips I can find are the Tour Velvet Cords, which I use, and have become relatively scarce.
[/quote]
.580 is not standard. .600 is standard as is the .600 butt shaft. A .580 grip on a .600 butt gives and a 1/64" oversize grip.

[TheHof28]

If they make a comeback to the consumer market, it's safe to say I'll have to devote a weekend to re-gripping all of my clubs.

[texcrom]

[quote name='Socrates' timestamp='1433903997' post='11723004']
[quote name='texcrom' timestamp='1433902299' post='11722846']
Can anyone explain this to me?

The release above says the following....."In the jargon of the trade, its size is 58 round, meaning the grip is round rather than ribbed and has a diameter of .58 of an inch (which is a normal size)."

If .58 is "a normal size", why is it that virtually every grip sold in golf shops is a .60?

This includes every New Decade Multi Compound grip sold.

In fact, typically the only .58 grips I can find are the Tour Velvet Cords, which I use, and have become relatively scarce.
[/quote]
.580 is not standard. .600 is standard as is the .600 butt shaft. A .580 grip on a .600 butt gives and a 1/64" oversize grip.
[/quote]

That quote is taken from the Golf Pride release a few posts above.

[Reezyreez808]

I remember a few years back while working a a golf course I was instructed to clear out some storage. A whole basement full of old club making tools and products. At the time I was 18 and had no idea what these grips were. I must've tossed out hundreds of these along with old shafts and heads.

Seeing how excited people are getting this idea of a retro release I hope it comes true for you all!

[Socrates]

[quote name='texcrom' timestamp='1433904894' post='11723088']
[quote name='Socrates' timestamp='1433903997' post='11723004']
[quote name='texcrom' timestamp='1433902299' post='11722846']
Can anyone explain this to me?

The release above says the following....."In the jargon of the trade, its size is 58 round, meaning the grip is round rather than ribbed and has a diameter of .58 of an inch (which is a normal size)."

If .58 is "a normal size", why is it that virtually every grip sold in golf shops is a .60?

This includes every New Decade Multi Compound grip sold.

In fact, typically the only .58 grips I can find are the Tour Velvet Cords, which I use, and have become relatively scarce.
[/quote]
.580 is not standard. .600 is standard as is the .600 butt shaft. A .580 grip on a .600 butt gives and a 1/64" oversize grip.
[/quote]

That quote is taken from the Golf Pride release a few posts above.
[/quote]
Don't think that came from GP. Some of it is, but much of it is from somewhere else.

[MadGolfer76]

[quote name='rpaige88' timestamp='1433896534' post='11722234']
Forgive me for being young but what made these grips so awesome? I'm a huge Golf Pride multi compound fan. Were/are these that much better than the multi compounds?
[/quote]

Nothing inherently better about them, it is just that there are a lot of us who came up playing them and miss the feel they provide. Not a lot out there right now that is similar.