Golf Head Covers

A head cover is the one piece of golf equipment that says something about the person carrying it. Everything else in the bag is chosen for performance. The cover on the driver is chosen for fun, which is why it is the item golfers get given rather than buy for themselves. What follows is how to pick one that fits the club, survives the season and actually suits him, plus where to look if you want the bigger roundups by club type.

Where to Look Next

Our sister store Groovy Golfer runs the long guides by club type. Those are the ones to read if you are still deciding.

Best Golf Headcover Sets On Groovy Golfer. Matching sets for the whole bag.	Blade Putter Headcovers On Groovy Golfer. Putters need a different shape.
Hybrid Head Covers On Groovy Golfer. Hybrids and fairway woods.	Funny Golf Shirts The same joke, worn rather than carried.
Funny Dad Gifts If the golfer in question is Dad.	Funny Old Man Tumblers For the one who never stops mentioning his age.

How to Choose a Golf Head Cover

Three things decide it and only one of them is the design. Which club it goes on, how it attaches, and whether the joke is one he wants to make every week for a season.

Match the cover to the club, because a driver cover will not fit a putter. This is the mistake that gets these returned. A driver cover is built for a 460cc head, which is the big one. Fairway woods and hybrids are smaller and often numbered. A putter cover is a completely different shape again, and blade and mallet putters need different covers as each other. The plush ranges on this page are driver covers. For the rest of the bag, our sister store has the full guides: Blade Putter Headcovers and Hybrid Head Covers.

Decide between a joke and his initials, because they age differently. A plush animal is the gift that gets a laugh on the first tee. A monogrammed leather cover is the one still on the bag in five years. Neither is wrong, but they suit different people. If he plays with the same four men every Saturday, the joke earns its place. If he plays business golf or takes his game seriously, the Checkerboard Personalized Golf Driver Head Cover in full grain leather is the safer call.

There are more styles here than the page shows at a glance. The plush ranges are single products with long style lists rather than separate listings, so the choice is bigger than it looks. Animal Golf Headcovers carries forty five styles, Manly Mammals Headcovers twenty four, Dog Breeds Golf Headcovers twenty one, Funny Golf Head Covers thirteen including a Sasquatch and a Pirate, and Birds of Prey eight. That is over a hundred choices once you open the dropdowns.

Pick the animal for the person, not for the golf. The ones that land are the ones that mean something. His dog's breed. The mascot of the team he will not shut up about. The animal his kids call him. A Tiger reads as a Tiger Woods joke to some people and as nothing at all to others, whereas a Bernese Mountain Dog that matches the dog in his house lands every time. If you know the person well enough to buy him a head cover, you know enough to pick the right one.

Check it will survive a wet round. Head covers spend their lives strapped to a bag in the rain and dragged across cart paths. The Dog Breeds Golf Headcovers range states UV-resistant fabric so the colour holds, and the Beer Bottle Driver Headcover at $45.99 is machine-washable, which matters more than it sounds after a season. Leather covers look better for longer but want keeping out of standing water.

If you are buying for the whole bag, buy a set rather than singles. Individual covers bought separately rarely look like they belong together. A matched set does, and it solves the driver, the woods and the hybrids in one go. That is a different shopping job from this page, and Best Golf Headcover Sets on Groovy Golfer is the roundup written for it.

How Much Should a Golf Head Cover Cost?

The range here is narrow, which makes this an easy category to buy in. Almost everything sits between 40 and 46 dollars, and the difference across that band is material rather than quality. Below that you are buying a simpler design, and there is very little above it worth paying for unless you want leather.

Who Are You Buying For?

A golfer who plays with the same group every week. This is the one who should get the joke cover, because he has an audience for it. The plush ranges are built for that, and the style lists are long enough that you can find something specific to him rather than generic. Pick the animal that means something to the four men he plays with.

A golfer who takes his game seriously. Then skip the plush entirely. A monogrammed leather cover says he cares about the bag without making a joke of it, and the Checkerboard Personalized Golf Driver Head Cover at $44.99 in full grain leather with up to three characters per side is the one to buy.

A dog owner. Then the decision is already made. Dog Breeds Golf Headcovers runs to twenty one breeds and it is one of only two things on this page that people buy repeatedly. Match the breed to the actual dog and it stops being a golf gift and becomes a gift about his dog.

Someone who already has a driver cover. Then buy for a different club rather than replacing what he has. Fairway woods and hybrids usually go uncovered because nobody thinks to buy for them, which makes them the better gift. Hybrid Head Covers on Groovy Golfer covers what fits.

A golfer whose putter is the expensive part of the bag. Putter covers are their own category and getting the shape right matters. Blade Putter Headcovers on Groovy Golfer is the guide, and it explains the blade and mallet difference before you spend anything.

You wanted a funny golf gift and a head cover is not quite it. Fair enough, it is a narrow category. Funny Golf Shirts makes the same joke somewhere more visible, and Funny Dad Gifts widens it out if the golfer in question is a father before he is a golfer.