Best Golf Gifts: 19 Christmas ideas the golfer in your life will actually like
The days of naff shirts, cheap balls and practice aids they'll never use are over.
Buying a gift for the resident golfer in your life can be a surprisingly tricky prospect, and with Christmas rapidly approaching.
There are, ostensibly, thousands of options out there, readily available at your nearest golf shop. And for the uninitiated, it's very easy to imagine that every shirt, glove, ball or shoe is much of a muchness.
The problem, however, is that it's not. And while it's absolutely possible to find something nice in any of these areas, there's also a lot of junk out there too, destined to find its way to the bottom of the bag or wardrobe to be forgotten, lost or given away.
For that reason, we've decided to pull together a not-at-all complete curation of products from our favourite brands both big and small, that make for a slightly more thoughtful golfing gift at every budget.
Most importantly, they're ideas that any one of us at GolfMagic HQ would be chuffed to unwrap this Christmas.
The best gifts for golfers under £50
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CORE Golf Subscription
We named CORE, an instruction app developed by the folks at Hole19, one of our favourite golf apps right now. And for good reason. Approachable and affordable for everyone, CORE takes the headache out of practicing without the need for forking out for an expensive instruction plan, delivering personalised practice regimes and drills to help lower your scores and address a range a of swing faults.
Annual plan €29.99 from hole19golf.com
The Golf 100, by Michael Arkush
The Golf 100, penned by bestselling author Michael Arkrush and released back in April, aims to get to the bottom of one of golf's trickiest questions: who really is the GOAT? To form his answer, Arkrush provides a definitive ranking of the game's 100 greatest ever players, taking into account major victories, tournament wins and, importantly, the impact each has had both on and off the course. The result might change your mind about certain players, affirm your opinion of others, and make you aware of some you'd never heard of.
Journal 18 performance golf journal
An all-in-one journal designed to unlock performance on and off the course, this customisable journal from Canadian brand Journal 18 is part yardage book, part practice notepad, and part stat tracker. It has blank integrated scorecards to keep tabs on improvement and key stats, smart shot tracker pages to map out shots, and uses concepts derived from sports psychology to help any golfer integrate more structure and feedback into their practice.
Shop now: £34 from Journal 18
Jones Sports Rangefinder Pouch
Jones Golf make some of the coolest golf bags around, doing away with the uber-technical fabrics and focusing instead on classic, vintage-inspired gear that still holds up to the demands of the modern golfer. And while their bags are on the pricey side for an everyday gift, we wouldn't say no to one of their rangefinder pouches.
Made from recycled ripstop derived from plastic bottles, they clip on easily to the buckle of any golf bag and will easily stash a rangefinder, or failing that, tees, balls or anything else you want to keep close at hand.
Shop now: £35 from Jones Sports
Personalised Srixon Q-Star Tour Golf Balls
Finding the right ball for a golfer is a process as personal and intricate as fitting a club, making buying a dozen for someone without knowing their skill level a tough ask. Srixon's Q-Star Tour is a fantastically affordable mid-level golf ball, providing the soft feel and distance most amateur golfers love with plenty of spin around the greens. Even better, the kind folks at American Golf will personalise them for your loved one.
Shop now: £34.99 from Clubhouse Golf
Uniqlo AIRism Cotton Polo Shirt
Cheap golf attire has a tendency to look awfully, well, cheap. This is where high-street giant Uniqlo, outfitter to style-forward golfers like Adam Scott, comes in. Garms like the AIRism cotton polo, while understated, are affordable, infused with breathable technical fabrics, and blend seamlessly into just about any outfit whether you're on or off the course. The perfect pick-up if you know someone who's wardrobe is in need of a budget-conscious refresh.
Shop now: £24.90 from Uniqlo
The best gifts for golfers under £100
Devereux Golf Fisherman Cardigan
Having racked up big-name collabs with their bold iconography and street-inspired aesthetic, apparel brand Devereux leaned more into understated textures and luxury fabrics for their winter collection. This 100% cotton Fisherman Cardigan is the perfect representation of that, reviving a garment formerly essential to the golfing aesthetic with an everyday wearability that stretches well beyond the course.
Shop now: £100 at Devereux Golf
Fyfe Golf Headcovers
The golfing equivalent of sipping a fine Single Malt in a windswept bothy, Fyfe's head covers and putter covers are handcrafted in Scotland from certified Harris Tweed. Fyfe also draws inspiration from the country's rugged vistas to make covers and accessories from hardy materials like waxed canvas, traditional tartan and clubman leather.
The Golfer's Journal Subscription
We like to think we do content pretty well here at GolfMagic, but we'd be doing a disservice to our fellow journals if we said we're the only golf outlet we think you should read. Compiling the most unique stories, the best golf writing and beautiful photography into one quarterly volume, TGJ is essential reading for any golfer who takes a considered approach to the game.
Shop now: $90 at The Golfer's Journal
Gumtree Golf & Nature Club Earth Day Tee Bundle
NY label Gumtree Golf & Nature Club is all about returning golf to a place of respect and appreciation for the great outdoors, focusing on limited-run, sustainably and ethically sourced clothes and accessories. The brand's latest Earth Day drop is a perfect example of this, bundling a limited-edition tee made from 100% re-claimed American waste cotton and a compostable bag tag filled with 9 biodegradable Golf Tees from SprouTEE.
A portion of every sale also goes to EARTHDAY.ORG’S The Canopy Project, which works to reforest areas globally need of rehabilitation
Shop now: $65 from Gumtree Golf & Nature Club
Jain golf Club Caddy
We love Jain Golf's sunshine-y, family-friendly approach to all things golf, but the West Coast brand's greatest contribution to the game of golf is undoubtedly its cult classic Club Caddy, which strips away basically everything you didn't know you didn't need from a Sunday bag and leaves you with a portable bundle of pure joy.
Capable of storing 4-5 clubs for breezy par 3 rounds and range sessions the Club Caddy has been made even better with customer input for the Holiday gifting season, with reinforced materials, a new detachable ball pouch and extra accessory clips for things like speakers.
Shop now: £54 from Jain Golf
Lululemon ABC Trousers
Lululemon are still something of an upstart at Tour level, however they do have one of the game's most stylish pros on board now in the form of Min Woo Lee.
You'll commonly find the Aussie in the brand's signature ABC pant, which has all the sartorial flair you'd need in a pair of everyday chinos while the Warpstreme fabric offers enough stretch and breathability to take to the course comfortably. The best golf trousers your giftee will ever wear.
Manors Pertex Golf Cap
Take it for 18, take it running, take it cycling, or do all three in the same day if you're game enough. This 5-panel golf cap from British brand Manors takes performance features from all three disciplines to provide a versatile, endlessly wearable all-rounder for any situation.
New for the AW25 season, the Japanese-engineered material that gives the Pertex cap its name is fully waterproof up to 30,000mm, but has a microporous membrane allowing vapour to escape, keeping your noggin dry and cool at the same time.
The best gifts for golfers over £100
Birdie Pack Golf Travel Organiser
So simple, yet delightfully clever. The BirdiePack is a new invention designed to take the sting out of golf travel, offering an innovative storage system that allows you to pack clothes away for a weekend golf trip and add further protection to your clubs in one go. Simply pack the BirdiePack with your clothes, wrap it around the business end of your golf bag, slot it in your favourite travel cover and away you go.
Five extra included pockets also provide added storage for both clean and dirty clothes, turning your golf travel suitcase into the luggage you always wish it was.
Shop now: $300 from Birdie Pack
Ettinger On the Green golf accessory set
Ettinger is one of England's most storied leather accessories makers, having previously held the Royal appointment to make wallets and pouches for Prince Philip among others. Their golf accessories exude this same strain of old-school class, being hand-made in its Walsall factory to this day.
The On the Green set includes a smart scorecard holder that can be personalised at will, along with a smaller clip-on belt caddy for carrying tees or a divot repair tool.
Shop now: £275 from Ettinger
Payntr Speed Classic Golf Shoes
Developed in collaboration with PGA Tour sartorial heavyweight Jason Day, Payntr's Speed Classic is laden with comfort while maintaining a classic look and feel that stands up to the Australian's now-infamous rota of eye-catching Malbon fits.
Shop now: £199.99 from Payntr
Rapsodo iPhone Launch Monitor
Launch monitors are expensive things—often too expensive for the average golfer to warrant investing in if they're squeezing in practice around work, family and friends.
Rapsodo's iPhone based launch monitor helps address this is an affordable, portable way, pairing your iPhone's camera with an in-built doppler radar to create a surprisingly accurate ball tracker for practice sessions at the range, in your garage or even hitting into a net in the garden.
Shop now: £239 from Hot Golf
Sunday Golf Loma Par 3 Bag
As light and breezy as the most idyllic of twilight rounds, Sunday Golf's Loma bag is the perfect par 3 companion. Weighing in at under a kilo, it's cleverly engineered with full-length legs, a two-way divider for storing up to six clubs, and even a sneaky insulated drinks pocket for a couple of cheeky sunset bevs. Quite frankly, it'd be rude not to.
Shop now: £119.95 from Scottsdale Golf
Vessel Golf Signature Garment Duffel Bag
Golfers go to great time and expense ensuring that their clubs arrive at point B safe and sound on any lengthy journey. But what about everything else? Infused with the same sense of luxurious, understated cool as the brand's acclaimed golf bags, Vessel's Signature Garment duffel is the perfect companion for any weekend trip (golf-related or otherwise), with a wide single-zipper opening, a premium synthetic leather outer and an in-built garment bag with space for a full suit.
Shop now: £275 from Vessel
Brad Nash is Reviews Editor at GolfMagic, having joined the team in June 2025 to look after all things reviews, soft goods testing and equipment alongside Equipment Editor Georgina. Primarily a writer, you may see him pop up in videos or on the GolfMagic socials from time to time.
