Sometimes golf’s salvation doesn’t come from a tour van, a big OEM lab, or some buzzword-infested “performance center.” Sometimes it comes from a guy who simply couldn’t watch another putt veer off line.
Bernerd Garsen spent over a decade in South Florida golf shops, working as an assistant pro and running outside services. Day after day, he watched golfers suffer on the greens. The same story: shaky hands, wrists flipping, confidence leaking away one missed putt at a time.
He couldn’t let it go. So he started experimenting. Cutting grips apart. Gluing them back together. Sanding angles until his fingers were raw. Searching for a shape that would keep the wrists quiet and let the shoulders run the show.
In 2012, he found it, and the EDGE grip was born. Its unique shape forces your palms to face each other, shutting down wrist action and turning the putting stroke into a simple rocking motion. No gimmicks. Just a practical fix for a universal problem.
And the tour took notice.
Pretty soon, names like Henrik Stenson, Abraham Ancer, Tony Finau, Justin Rose, Brooke Henderson, and Lydia Ko were rolling it pure with Garsen grips in their hands. The grips have now been part of over 70 professional wins across the PGA and LPGA Tours, from Stenson’s epic run at the 2016 Open Championship, to Finau’s string of victories including the 3M Open, to Lydia Ko leading the LPGA in strokes gained putting while capturing the Race to the CME Globe in 2022. Not bad for a grip dreamed up in a Florida pro shop with a utility knife and a pile of prototypes.
Garsen’s own story reads like a detour-filled novel: motocross racer, European fashion model, commercials for BMW and Volvo. But golf kept dragging him back, until the day he realized that reinventing the putter grip might be his true calling.
Today, Garsen Golf’s lineup has grown well beyond that first EDGE prototype. There’s the MAX, the QUAD TOUR, the ULTIMATE. All built around the same idea: steady the hands, calm the mind, and give golfers a fighting chance on the greens. The grips may stand out from traditional shapes, but they’ve carved out real estate in the bags of major champions and everyday players alike.
Some traditionalists still squint at the silhouette. But the scoreboard—and the banked putts—don’t lie. In golf, like in life, sometimes the biggest breakthroughs start with one guy refusing to accept that failure is the only option.
