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Pappy82nd Professional Champion
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Okay, I have had a problem since getting my new fitted clubs. I wear one glove on my right hand and generally use a Foot Joy soft medium large. Since getting my clubs the ring finger of my right hand really gets tore up by my glove. I have tried different gloves and tried to adjust my grip. As to hand pressure I would put myself around a 4 out of 10. I went to the range today and now I have a very large very sore tear in the right side of my right ring finger. This has gone beyond nuisance to down right painful and difficult to play with even after I put a band aid on it. No blister, just flat out tears the skin off. anyone ever had this issue and found a fix for it? Or did old Pappy find an odd issue?
NormanLangJr Professional Champion
# 1 6/8/2014 7:35:15 PM
That's very odd. I would try a couple wraps of padded tape around that finger. I typically tape up the base of my right thumb. I use this stuff- http://www.golfsmith.com/produ..
armygrunt47 Professional Champion
# 2 6/8/2014 7:39:09 PM
A loose wrap of thin medical always does the job for me.
Pappy82nd Professional Champion
# 3 6/8/2014 7:48:30 PM
Thanks for the tips. I will give them a try. I might go to a new name handle of Two Gloves Pappy. Works for Hainey right?
Vincedaddy Legend
# 4 6/8/2014 8:15:05 PM
I use an interlocking grip. I too had the same problem. My instructor adjusted my grip and I had to go through it again. Now I have a new callous on the finger right at the last joint. There is no secret. Just man up until the callous forms. Also Pappy, I'm not a leg. I think you know what that means.
Mongo68 Legend
# 5 6/8/2014 8:16:24 PM
A loose wrap of thin medical always does the job for me. Agree. My fingers are more sensitive at the start of the season after several winter months off and I'll usually wrap my right ring finger for the first few rounds. If it feels good after a round w/o the tape then I'll leave it off.
dewsweeper Legend
# 6 6/8/2014 8:36:27 PM
Ben Hogan once was asked why he choose the overlapping grip ? He paused for a few seconds and answered, "maybe because it did not hurt my fingers" ? grip pressure also contributes to the friction which may cause the injury.
HIGH_LANDER Legend
# 7 6/8/2014 8:58:42 PM
Remove and play golf with out Ring.
JayPet Legend
# 8 6/9/2014 7:29:50 AM
Use golfer tape to wrap the finger. I don't play a round without wrapping my middle finger on the right hand to keep the hand in position and not get a bad callous. Tiger wraps that finger too with medical tape if you look at pictures of him. It helps. Also, I don't play with my wedding ring on the left hand. Sorry honey, but I told the wifey a while ago that playing with my wedding ring on causes a major callous for my left hand under the ring finger.
lpj0 Professional Champion
# 9 6/9/2014 2:22:08 PM
I have the same thing right near the joint to hand. I don't wear a glove, so it is the right pinky fingernail digging into my left middle finger. The solution; it will callous by mid season - good until next year. It's not really a solution, but it does not really bother me. (Other than occasionally getting blood on a good golf shirt.)
Don Freeman Professional Champion
# 10 6/9/2014 2:30:50 PM
Use duffer tape to wrap the finger. that's funny chit right there.......
Pappy82nd Professional Champion
# 11 6/9/2014 8:05:48 PM
I use an interlocking grip. I too had the same problem. My instructor adjusted my grip and I had to go through it again. Now I have a new callous on the finger right at the last joint. There is no secret. Just man up until the callous forms. Also Pappy, I'm not a leg. I think you know what that means. LOL
Pappy82nd Professional Champion
# 12 6/9/2014 8:08:42 PM
Use golfer tape to wrap the finger. I don't play a round without wrapping my middle finger on the right hand to keep the hand in position and not get a bad callous. Tiger wraps that finger too with medical tape if you look at pictures of him. It helps. Also, I don't play with my wedding ring on the left hand. Sorry honey, but I told the wifey a while ago that playing with my wedding ring on causes a major callous for my left hand under the ring finger. I don't wear a ring either. This is a recent oddity, just since I got my new clubs last winter. I am rather accustomed to calouses being raised on a Montana ranch, but this is taking the skin of almost to the bone. Will try the medical tape. Might be that as I get older my skin is getting thinner, opaque if you know what I mean.

Professional Champion

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Okay, I have had a problem since getting my new fitted clubs. I wear one glove on my right hand and generally use a Foot Joy soft medium large. Since getting my clubs the ring finger of my right hand really gets tore up by my glove. I have tried different gloves and tried to adjust my grip. As to hand pressure I would put myself around a 4 out of 10. I went to the range today and now I have a very large very sore tear in the right side of my right ring finger. This has gone beyond nuisance to down right painful and difficult to play with even after I put a band aid on it. No blister, just flat out tears the skin off. anyone ever had this issue and found a fix for it? Or did old Pappy find an odd issue?

NormanLangJr

Professional Champion

# 1 6/8/2014 7:35:15 PM

That's very odd. I would try a couple wraps of padded tape around that finger. I typically tape up the base of my right thumb.

I use this stuff- http://www.golfsmith.com/produ..

armygrunt47

Professional Champion

# 2 6/8/2014 7:39:09 PM

A loose wrap of thin medical always does the job for me.

Pappy82nd

Professional Champion

# 3 6/8/2014 7:48:30 PM

Thanks for the tips. I will give them a try. I might go to a new name handle of Two Gloves Pappy. Works for Hainey right?

Vincedaddy

Legend

# 4 6/8/2014 8:15:05 PM

I use an interlocking grip. I too had the same problem.
My instructor adjusted my grip and I had to go through it again.
Now I have a new callous on the finger right at the last joint. There is no secret. Just man up until the callous forms. Also Pappy, I'm not a leg. I think you know what that means.

Mongo68

Legend

# 5 6/8/2014 8:16:24 PM

A loose wrap of thin medical always does the job for me.

Agree. My fingers are more sensitive at the start of the season after several winter months off and I'll usually wrap my right ring finger for the first few rounds. If it feels good after a round w/o the tape then I'll leave it off.

dewsweeper

Legend

# 6 6/8/2014 8:36:27 PM

Ben Hogan once was asked why he choose the overlapping grip ?
He paused for a few seconds and answered, "maybe because it did not hurt my fingers" ?
grip pressure also contributes to the friction which may cause the injury.

HIGH_LANDER

Legend

# 7 6/8/2014 8:58:42 PM

Remove and play golf with out Ring.

JayPet

Legend

# 8 6/9/2014 7:29:50 AM

Use golfer tape to wrap the finger. I don't play a round without wrapping my middle finger on the right hand to keep the hand in position and not get a bad callous. Tiger wraps that finger too with medical tape if you look at pictures of him. It helps.
Also, I don't play with my wedding ring on the left hand. Sorry honey, but I told the wifey a while ago that playing with my wedding ring on causes a major callous for my left hand under the ring finger.

lpj0

Professional Champion

# 9 6/9/2014 2:22:08 PM

I have the same thing right near the joint to hand. I don't wear a glove, so it is the right pinky fingernail digging into my left middle finger. The solution; it will callous by mid season - good until next year. It's not really a solution, but it does not really bother me. (Other than occasionally getting blood on a good golf shirt.)

Don Freeman

Professional Champion

# 10 6/9/2014 2:30:50 PM

Use duffer tape to wrap the finger.

that's funny chit right there.......

Pappy82nd

Professional Champion

# 11 6/9/2014 8:05:48 PM

I use an interlocking grip. I too had the same problem.
My instructor adjusted my grip and I had to go through it again.
Now I have a new callous on the finger right at the last joint. There is no secret. Just man up until the callous forms. Also Pappy, I'm not a leg. I think you know what that means.

LOL

Pappy82nd

Professional Champion

# 12 6/9/2014 8:08:42 PM

Use golfer tape to wrap the finger. I don't play a round without wrapping my middle finger on the right hand to keep the hand in position and not get a bad callous. Tiger wraps that finger too with medical tape if you look at pictures of him. It helps.
Also, I don't play with my wedding ring on the left hand. Sorry honey, but I told the wifey a while ago that playing with my wedding ring on causes a major callous for my left hand under the ring finger.

I don't wear a ring either. This is a recent oddity, just since I got my new clubs last winter. I am rather accustomed to calouses being raised on a Montana ranch, but this is taking the skin of almost to the bone. Will try the medical tape. Might be that as I get older my skin is getting thinner, opaque if you know what I mean.

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