Made by hand.
Marked with yours.
Gilded Grip began with a small objection. The most personal game a man plays was being played in a glove pulled from a rack, printed with a brand he never chose. The one thing touching every swing deserved far more thought than that.
Everything in his bag was chosen. Except the glove.
His irons were fitted over a season. His putter was picked after years of trying others. Good shoes, a watch he had waited for. Then he saw a photograph from the first tee, and his eye went straight to his own left hand: a thin glove from a rack, carrying another company's logo, the tab already curling at the edge.
Every other thing in that picture said something about him. The one thing actually holding the club advertised someone else. Once he saw it, he could not stop seeing it. So he set out to put the last detail of his game right.
The fine gloves were anonymous. The personal ones were cheap.
Wherever he looked, he found the same trade. Budget gloves could carry a name, printed on the way a promotional pen is. The fine ones, true cabretta, were handsome and completely anonymous, no different from the next man's. He could not find a glove that was both genuinely fine and unmistakably his.
Cabretta is hair sheep leather, thin and supple, and it softens to the hand within a few rounds until it feels like a second skin. He decided it would be the only leather Gilded Grip would ever use, and that every glove would carry up to 3 initials in real gold foil, pressed into the leather rather than printed on it.
Cut, stitched and stamped. One at a time.
Every Gilded Grip glove is made to order. Nothing waits on a shelf for a buyer. Your letters are set in brass type, pressed into the tab with heat and real gold foil, and the glove is checked by hand before it goes into its box, bound for you or straight to him.
What arrives is soft cabretta that shapes itself to your grip, perforated fingers that keep the hand cool through eighteen, and your initials in gold where you will see them on every swing. Do not be surprised if it is the first thing the man beside you mentions on the first tee.
A man's game says a lot about him before he says a word. The clubs, the shoes, the watch: each one chosen with care. The glove was the one place that care had slipped, and it is the one thing touching the club. I simply wanted it to be his.
Gilded Grip in four figures
- Golfers per glove
- 1
- Initials, hot-stamped in real gold foil
- Up to 3
- Full-grain AAA cabretta, in every glove we make
- 100%
- Gloves made for stock, waiting on a shelf
- 0
Four things we will not compromise.
The standards every glove has to meet before it leaves the workshop with your name on it.
- Made for one
- A glove should belong to a golfer, not to a rack. Yours is made only after you order it, and it carries your initials and nobody else's.
- Only top-grade leather
- Full-grain AAA cabretta, the top grade of the hide and the leather tour players reach for. It feels like a second skin and softens to your hand, round after round.
- Crafted by hand
- Your letters are set in brass type by hand, then pressed, finished and checked one glove at a time. No production line and no shortcuts.
- Quiet distinction
- No loud logos. Fine leather and your initials in gold, noticed by the people who notice these things, without a word from you.
The Gilded Grip promise
If your glove is anything less than we promised, tell us and we will put it right. Love it, or return it within 60 days for a full refund. If the fit is wrong, we make you a new one in the right size, with the same initials, at no charge. A glove made for one golfer should satisfy that golfer completely.
Read our refund policyThe final detail of your game, raised to the standard of the rest.
Full-grain cabretta, made to order, with your initials pressed in real gold. For your own bag, or for the golfer who already has everything else.
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