Shoes & Apparel

Shoes, gloves, waterproofs and the rest of what you wear.

11 buying guides

Best Golf Shoes: Four Picks, Spiked and Spikeless

A golf shoe is the only piece of kit you stand on for four hours and then swing against seventy times. Here is what separates one from another, four worth buying, and the specification almost nobody checks.

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Best Golf Gloves: Four Picks, and When to Bin Yours

A golf glove is a consumable, not equipment. Here is what separates leather from synthetic, how to size one properly including cadet, and the four worth buying.

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Best Golf Grips: Cord, Rubber and What Rain Does

The grip is the only part of a golf club you touch, it costs less than a dozen balls to replace the lot, and most golfers are playing a compound chosen by whoever built the club.

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Best Golf Hats: Sun, Sweatband, Fit, Then Styling

Three things about a golf hat change anything: how much sun it stops, whether the sweatband works, and whether it fits. One brand on this page publishes a number for the first of those. The rest is styling, and there is nothing wrong with that.

11 min read

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Best Golf Rain Gear: Four Jackets and the Small Print

Two of these four makers publish a waterproof rating in millimetres. Two do not. That gap decides more about whether a jacket keeps working than anything printed on the swing tag.

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Best Golf Rangefinder Cases: Replacements and Mounts

Almost every rangefinder ships with a case, so nobody buys one of these first. This is a replacement purchase, an upgrade purchase, or a sign that the case you were given is the wrong shape for how you play.

10 min read

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Best Golf Shoes for Walking: Four Picks for 18 on Foot

Walking 18 holes is a five mile walk with a load on your back, done in a shoe designed around a golf swing. Those two jobs pull in opposite directions, and the shoe you buy decides which one wins.

13 min read

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Best Golf Sunglasses: Tint, Polarisation and Fit

Golf sunglasses are sold on lens technology and bought on looks, and the one specification that genuinely changes what you see on a green is the one nobody argues about properly.

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Best Golf Tees: Height Matters, Brand Mostly Does Not

A tee costs a few cents and the tee you use matters far less than the height you push it to. Here is the part that is real, the part that is marketing, and four packs worth buying.

11 min read

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Best Golf Towels: Three Things That Matter, Four Picks

Almost everything written about golf towels is padding. There are three variables, one of them matters more than the other two combined, and once you know which it is the decision takes about a minute.

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Best Golf Umbrellas: Four Picks and the Wind Question

One of these four makers publishes a wind speed the umbrella has been tested to. The rest publish a size and a colour. That gap is most of what separates an umbrella that lasts three seasons from one that lasts three holes.

12 min read