Holy Grail Hitting Strip Review: My Honest Take After A Bunch of Use
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The author tests Gungho Golf's Holy Grail hitting strip and highlights its soft, forgiving construction with five layers of foam designed to reduce wrist and elbow impact on mishits while still providing feedback on fat strikes. The review covers the product's layered design (Money Putt turf, polycarbonate base, foam stack), mounting method, and how it plays in practice. Bomgren frames the mat as an injury-conscious option for simulator enthusiasts concerned about repetitive impact stress, though the full pros and cons are structured as expandable sections in the article.
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Contents
What Is the Holy Grail Hitting Strip?
How It Plays
What I Liked
What I Didn't Like
Final Thoughts
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
If you’ve been shopping around for a new hitting strip or mat for your simulator, you’ve probably come across the Holy Grail hitting strip from Gungho Golf. I’ve tested mine for over a month now, hitting on it A LOT, and I wanted to put together a full breakdown of what I liked, what I didn’t, and whether it’s worth your money.
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What Is the Holy Grail Hitting Strip?
The Holy Grail hitting strip is a golf hitting mat built by Gungho Golf, designed to give you a realistic feedback while emphasizing the protection of your wrists and elbows from any repeated golf simulator impact. It retails for $179.99 for the 12×30″ size, but Gungho Golf has other sizes available. Changes in size or customizations obviously come with different price tags.
The strip is built in layers. On top, you’ve got Gungho’s Money Putt turf, which is a nice, dense putting-style turf. This turf also matches the rest of their turf lineup if you’re trying to keep your simulator floor consistent. Underneath that sits a black polycarbonate layer, basically a flexible plastic that gives the strip a lot of its forgiveness. Below that is the foam. The version I tested has five layers of foam, an upgrade from the three layers Gungho used in earlier versions. That foam stack is really the heart of what makes this mat feel the way it does.
The overall strip measures about an inch and a half in height, and Gungho recommends cutting your mat opening to 12.25×30 inches for a tight fit front and back with a small gap on the sides so the strip can flex properly when you hit it. It mounts with velcro on the front and back supports, which sticks to the floor underneath to keep it from shifting.
How It Plays
Honestly, I’ve been impressed with how this plays. This is one of the softer hitting mats I’ve tested, and that softness is by design. Gungho built it specifically to protect your wrists and elbows, since a lot of injuries from sim golf come from mats that grab the club and stop it too aggressively on a mishit. The Holy Grail doesn’t do that.
But, it still gives you feedback when you hit it fat. Because of how soft the foam underneath is,…
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