Oct
21
2008

Accessory Review: FiZ Golf

Posted by Double Eagle in Accessory Reviews

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Most golfers know the importance of keeping club faces and grooves clean.  And just about all of those who know the importance also know how difficult it is to do so.  Maybe tedious is a better word.  Wet towels, wire brushes, dry towels, water.  Scrubbing and scrubbing.

Well, FiZ Golf believe they have the answer.

FiZ Golf - Giving you a "Scientific Spit Shine"

FiZ Golf - Giving you a "Scientific Spit Shine"

FiZ Golf is a complete club, ball, and grip cleaning solution.  It consists of a small can of patented foaming (and fizzing, of course) solution that helps lift dirt and grass out of grooves, ball dimples, and off of club faces.  The bottom of the small canister is a set of plastic bristles that you use to give the club or ball a little light scrubbing to get to the hard to reach grime.

All that is required to get your club face clean is a quick spray, a few light scrubs with the bristles, and a quick wipe with your golf towel.

One FiZ Golf canister lasts up to about 350 sprays, or about 100 holes.  FiZ Golf retails for $9.99.

The Good

  • The product is extremely compact.  At only five inches tall, and an inch in diameter, it’s a lot of cleaning in a small package.
  • The loop in the cap makes it easy to hang on the outside of a golf bag for easy access.  This is a make or break feature for me.  If I had to dig for it in my bag, I’d probably never use it.
  • FiZ Golf is very effective at getting club faces clean with less work.  If you read regularly, you know I’ve been off the course with an injury for a while.  I’ve just now gotten back to the driving range recently, and that’s where I put FiZ Golf through the ringer.  After hitting my 7-iron 20-30 times, I gave it a shot of spray, scrubbed a little with the bristles, gave the club face a wipe with my towel, and was amazed at how well it worked.  There was a tiny bit of dirt left in the grooves that I cleaned up with a second treatment, but that was really due to the amount of crud I accumulated after so many shots.  Cleaning my 4-iron after 5 shots worked perfectly on the first treatment.
  • It sounds like work to spray and scrub and wipe, but it’s much more effective than my normal routine of scraping out the dirt with a tee and using water or saliva plus my towel to get the face reasonably clean.
  • The silver dimpled can and green lid/bristles make it a nice looking product.  Not only that, but the cap is made to accommodate logos on each side, so it could make a great tournament prize.

The Bad

  • Believe it or not, it takes a little practice to not overload the club with the foaming solution the first several times.  It literally takes like a fraction of a second of pressing the button down to get enough.  My first canister isn’t empty yet, but I can already tell that it’s not going to come close to 350 sprays because I used it like a fire extinguisher at first.
  • The retail price of $9.99 feels kind of marginally high priced.  I think it’s just a psychological hangup on my part (”How much for that little canister to clean my clubs?!”).  FiZ Golf is well made and effective though, so at over 100 holes per canister, that’s less than $2 per round.  It’s just a perception thing, I think.  If they sold a 10-hole canister for $1, I’d probably be saying, “what a great deal!”

Conclusion

Without a doubt, FiZ Golf is a cool accessory that just about every golfer should have.  Any golfer that values clean clubs, that is.  It’s very effective and easy to use.  I know I whined a little about the price, but I think it provides sufficient value for the money.

FiZ Golf is a product that I’m definitely going to continue to use.  I recommend giving it a try.

For more information, visit the Fiz Golf website at http://www.fizgolf.com

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There are currently 7 responses to “Accessory Review: FiZ Golf”

  1. 1

    dday39 said:

    I don’t know, my brush works pretty well and takes me all of 5 seconds to clean a club.

    Posted on October 21st, 2008 at 3:06 pm

  2. 2

    Double Eagle said:

    dday, I think in my case, it might be that I don’t do a good enough job each time and it just starts to cake up. Then it takes a while to get the grooves really clean. Especially at a driving range session, where I might not be diligent about cleaning a club after each shot. Not only that, but getting all the grass stains and dirt off the face is a pain. That crud on the surface of the face works to degrade spin and contact, even if it’s not huge clumps of dirt.

    If you’re perfectly happy with your brush, then sticking with it is the best bet. I doubt you’d really get a huge boost from switching. For me, cleaning with a brush and water or saliva has always been an annoyance because I like the faces as clean as possible (even if I’m too lazy to follow through sometimes).

    Posted on October 21st, 2008 at 4:06 pm

  3. 3

    Thecpa said:

    So how much would a gallon of the product cost? You didn’t mention how much you get for the $9.99 price tag.

    Posted on October 21st, 2008 at 5:12 pm

  4. 4

    Double Eagle said:

    Thecpa, it’s about 350 squirts (with one squirt per club cleaning). I don’t have my canister here, so I’m not sure how many ounces of product are in each.

    Posted on October 21st, 2008 at 6:37 pm

  5. 5

    nate said:

    I don\’t know what other people do, but after every round / practice session I\’ll get a bucket of water and give my clubs a good scrubbing (grips and club heads). It may all be psychological but when I don\’t it seems like it\’s harder to keep them clean next time around. If I start out with clean clubs it\’s pretty easy to keep most of them relatively clean with just a tee and towel. The only ones that get noticeably bad are my wedges, which are the most important ones to keep clean. =)~

    Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

  6. 6

    Double Eagle said:

    Nate, I think you’re definitely on to something. I notice that when I give my clubs a through bucket-’o-water cleaning, not only to I psychologically feel like they perform better, but it’s easier to keep them clean the following round. My problem comes in that I can’t seem to bring myself to clean them like that with any frequency.

    Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 3:35 pm

  7. 7

    MonaVie said:

    If nothing else, it is a neat design. They did well with the “eye candy” part. Plus it looks to be pretty convenient, more so than a bucket of water. I hear ya with the price though - at first it’s hard to justify paying that much for so little of product. But like the old adage says, “a little bit can go a long ways”.

    Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 5:54 pm

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