I would love to live in a warm climate. A lot of retired people from my neck of the woods move to Spain or Portugal for the health benefits for an older person. Where I live in North East England is not ideal for your condition. England is nice in the summer but morbidly depressing and so cold and sunless from November to March ha ha.
Smitty 👍👍
Without going into too much detail, I was adopted and about 5 years ago, I started a search for my birth family. It turns out I'm the oldest of 6 children and all my siblings live in the Pacific NW, Washington State, Oregon and northern California. I visited them in person in June of 2021 and while the days were 100* with so little humidity you didn't break a sweat, the nights would go all the way down into the 50s. My hands would hurt even at just that temperature.
And speaking of Spain and Portugal, I have a nephew and 2 friends who live in Portugal and they rave about it. My nephew loves to surf and one of my friends is a retired executive from Commonwealth Development Corporation. We knew him from when he was posted in Jamaica and we played golf together. He and his wife constantly talk about us visiting and how wonderful the golfing community is there.
And to go back to the original post, I picked up some TackiMac arthritic grips yesterday afternoon. They are 3/32" oversize, close enough to the 1/8" oversize I use, but the main thing is, as Paul mentioned, the little nodules are hard and create a sensation to me that suggests I don't need to grip the club with as much force as I normally do with my usual Tour Satin style grips.
And Steve, I've heard of constant diameter grips, but never tried them. My problem is much more in my left hand, so I'm not sure how they would work for me. And my Orthopedist, who happens to be a good friend, is a damned tennis player who doesn't understand why anyone would hit a little ball into a gopher hole with a crooked stick. (He knows the Robin Williams comedy routine about golf way too well)
