Player’s Corner GIFT GUIDE
It’s a Gimme Whether your favorite golfer’s taste runs to high-tech or high-touch, this holiday season brings plenty of choices. By Suzanne S. Brown
WARMING TREND Cold hands never make for a good golf swing. That’s why golfers who play when the temperature drops are discovering what pro athletes have been doing for years—putting their mitts in heated pouches like the one made by G-Tech Apparel, a company specializing in heated clothing. G-Tech Heat is used by professional and collegiate football and baseball players, as well as competitors on the PGA and LPGA tours. Golfers such as Dustin Johnson kept their hands toasty using G-Tech’s Heated Pouch during the 2021 Ryder Cup. With a lightweight rechargeable lithium battery and three heat settings, the Heated Pouch Sport 2.0 comes in five colors, $120. gtechapparel.com
ON SURE FOOTING Brothers Jason and Ryan Moore share a lifelong love of golf. Jason played competitively and then spent years caddying for Ryan, who’s won five times on the PGA TOUR. Convinced that comfortable golf shoes did not exist, they set out to create shoes by and for the walking golfer. Their products, sold online at TRUE linkswear and select pro shops, offer comfort, natural motion and versatility in a minimalistic, modern aesthetic. And they’re sustainably made: Several of their five core designs are manufactured from entirely recycled materials, and the shoes are packaged in reusable bags, not boxes. For the holidays, True is offering a limited-release OG Feel Dead Golfer style featuring a leather saddle and its signature dead golfer logo (a skeleton swinging a club in search of par), $155. Another good gift choice is the True Knit II, which has a sock-fit feel and is breathable for wear on and off the course, $140. Women’s styles are available as well. truelinkswear.com
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TUNED IN Love them or loathe them, personal music devices have become ubiquitous on the golf course. Players who like to listen to favorite tunes while they swing a club are adding wireless speakers to their golf gear, and they make a great holiday gift. Offering clear sound as well as affordability is Lorente Golf’s waterproof, wireless speaker that offers seven hours of playing time between charges. Compact in size— 3 inches in diameter and 2 inches tall—the speaker is customizable with such graphics as the Colorado state flag or golf club logos, $50. For retail locations, grdunleavy@gmail.com
A FASHIONABLE FORAY Foray Golf’s Megan LeMothe treats golf apparel as more of a designer-boutique item than mass-appeal clothing. She uses fabrics found in both high-end designer collections and athletics apparel, and prefers doing capsule collections to big seasonal rollouts. Her stretch neoprene track jacket, $180, and clean A-line skorts printed with such motifs as winter’s Modern Monarch feature dual front pockets as well as a back pocket and shorts in a fourway stretch, wrinkle-resistant Italian jersey. $150. Also from the company are pieces, such as golf gloves and towels, in the classic playing-card-queen motif. foraygolf.com coloradoavidgolfer.com
