How to Keep Your Hands Golf Ready This Winter
By: Golfshake Editor | Fri 17 Jan 2025
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Guest article by student sports journalist Fin Tait.
Winter golf is a different challenge in its own way. Unpredictable weather, Baltic temperatures and worst of all, cold hands. Nothing kills your round more than cold hands. Here are our top tips and advice on how to keep your hands golf ready this winter.
Having The Right Type of Glove
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Getting through a full 18 with zero drops of rain will certainly come rare in the winter months. Ensuring you keep a good grip and control of your clubs is imperative. It's also crucial you have a glove that can keep your hands warm and comfortable, as well as dry. The right glove can be the very difference between a good round, and a bad round. Here are a few we recommend.
Rain Gloves
Rain gloves are often crafted differently to your standard golf glove, all designed for giving you that extra grip during harsh weather. Single rain gloves offer the extra grip and control for your lead hand, without losing any feel. Double gloves are also a great option for the winter months, providing extra warmth as well as grip. However, they can result in a slight loss of feel for the club. Here are some options we recommend:
This RainGrip glove provides perfect grip and control when things get wet. The QuickDry knit material also makes for maximum comfort on the course, as well as ensuring your glove is dry and ready to go for next time.
This single rain glove from COBRA offers a great level of grip, control, warmth and comfort for when you need it most.
These Callaway ThermalGrip gloves also do a great job of repelling wind and rain, with a fleece inner lining keeping your hands warm throughout your round. The synthetic leather palm also helps maintain a sturdy grip during wet weather.
These FootJoy double rain gloves offer top quality comfort and grip, without sacrificing your feel of the club.
Winter Mitts
Mitts are a great way to keep your hands warm and ready in the cold weather. These items are especially perfect when playing with larger groups, meaning there is more waiting for other people to hit their shots. Standing around waiting for your shot is when the cold will creep in, so having the right mitts ready for these moments is crucial. Here are some we recommend:
These COBRA mitts offer a nice, snug pocket of warmth for your hands whilst waiting for your shot.
These Under Armour mitts are another top-quality option to keep you golf ready this winter. Thick insulation and water resistant to protect against the elements.
Modern Day Accessories
Some of these accessories are also good options to consider before you make any purchases. If you use a trolley, you might want to consider some of these options. You might also consider pairing mitts with a set of hand warmers, to really provide you with that extra heat. Just remember how painful thinning an iron can be with cold hands.
These small hand warmers provide up to seven hours of heat, giving you heat for the entire duration of your round,
These mitts are a great option for you golfers who use a trolley. They attach onto the handle of your trolley and allow your hands to slip in and out without any fuss.
What Else Can You Do?
There are several other things to consider as well as using a different kind of gloves. These options are all about aiding your round, and although they may not seem major, they could have a much bigger impact than you first imagine. Here are some other options for you to consider:
Towels
So simple, yet so effective. When the rain pours, keeping your hands, gloves and grips dry is the number one priority. Having one or two towels in your bag, ready for action, can be the ultimate decider on the outcome of your round. A small micro fibre towel really can make a big difference.
These Rife golf towels are currently on sale at American Golf. Don't underestimate the impact something so simple could have on your game!
Rain Cover
Getting a rain cover for your bag can have a tremendous effect on keeping your grips dry for as long as possible. Slipping over the top of your bag preventing rain from running down the shafts and onto the grips, a rain cover could be an essential product to always keep in your bag.
This golf bag hood is a wonderful choice for keeping your clubs as dry as possible when the heavens open.
Slightly different to the previous option, this rain cover protects your entire bag from the elements. Its lightweight, waterproof material allows for it to folded up and packed away in your bag until you need it.
Umbrella Holder
Having an umbrella on hand is always crucial for winter golf. But when paired with a holder, staying dry has never been so simple. Attaching one of these onto your trolley will allow you to keep both hands in your mitts, instead of having to keep one hand in the cold. Some trolleys will come with specific holders, so be sure to get the right one for your trolley.
This Golfers Club Deluxe Umbrella Holder is a perfect choice for anyone looking to get an umbrella attached to their trolley. It has a simple construction, allowing it to attach to a wide variety of trolleys.
Halfway House
Coming down the 9th hole to the halfway point of your round, the cold has almost definitely began creeping in and that feeling in your hands may be starting to slip away. Stopping in the halfway house (if your course has one) for a quick drink or a bite to eat will set you up perfectly to play your best golf on the back nine. Maybe consider carrying a spare glove, and switch gloves at the halfway house if the rain has taken its toll.
Proper Warm-Up
Our final tip is something so simple, yet so missed out on. You see it all too often, and it's something we are all guilty of. Turning up to the course five minutes before your tee time, taking one practice swing and getting started. You may be able to get away with it in the summer, but during the blistering cold of winter, it's not so easily forgiven.
A proper warm-up before you take your first shot can really get you started on your round. It also goes a long way in preventing any injuries. As the saying goes, ‘fail to prepare, prepare to fail’, getting properly prepared for your round is the best thing you can do to keep your hands and yourself golf ready this winter.
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