For a group of groomsmen who play, the best gift is a FootJoy WeatherSof gloveeach — the world’s best-selling golf glove, a consumable every golfer is overdue to replace, and cheap enough to buy five or six of without the total becoming its own problem. It is the pick for a mixed group of golfers at a sensible per-head budget. The thing that makes this purchase different from every other gift list on this site is the multiplier: you are not choosing one gift, you are choosing one gift times five or six, and that changes which products make sense.
What the multiplier does to the decision
Three things. First, the budget per head collapses— a gift that feels modest at $40 becomes a $240 line item at six, which is why the top of this list is cheaper than the top of our other gift pages. Second, you cannot personalize to each recipient, because you are buying the same thing six times for golfers with six different handicaps and six different sets. Third, sizing becomes a real risk: getting one glove size wrong is a swap, getting four wrong is a logistics problem the week of a wedding.
That is why the list below is weighted toward consumables and no-size tools, with one single bigger item at the bottom for the case everybody actually asks about — a different, better gift for the best man.
The sizing problem, handled
The glove is the best gift here and it is the one that needs information. A golf glove is worn on the hand opposite the one you write with, so a right-handed golfer needs a left-hand glove, and gloves come in sizes. For a wedding party you almost certainly have a group chat; asking for glove size is a two-minute message and far less awkward than asking about anything else. If you would rather not ask, buy the balls: a dozen Srixon Soft Feel each needs nothing from anybody and lands well with every standard of player.
The five, compared on the thing that matters here
| Pick | Scales to a group? | Needs info from them? | Works across handicaps? |
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| FootJoy WeatherSof glove | Yes — the best cost-to-impression ratio here | Yes: hand and size | Yes |
| Srixon Soft Feel (dozen) | Yes | No | Yes, except a genuine low single-digit |
| Callaway Alignment Sticks | Yes, at the lowest per-head cost | No | Yes |
| TecTecTec VPRO500 | No — buy one, for the best man | No | Yes |
| Sunday Golf Loma | Only for a small, committed group | No | Walkers and short-course players |
One honest warning on the rangefinder: if the wedding party plays a tournament or a competitive round together, remind them that distance-measuring devices may be used to measure distance only. Slope and wind functions must not be used during a round under the Rules of Golf, and the VPRO500 has a slope mode. Our rangefinder rules page covers it, and what slope actually is explains the feature.
The per-head budget, honestly
Work backward from the total, not forward from the gift. Decide the number you are comfortable spending on the whole group, divide by the number of groomsmen, and shop that figure. At the bottom of the range, alignment sticks each is a genuinely good answer and nobody will think less of it. In the middle, a glove each or a dozen balls each. At the top, a glove and a dozen balls is a better gift than one more expensive object, because it reads as two things rather than one compromise.
Should the best man get something different?
If you want to, yes — and a rangefinder is the obvious upgrade, because it is the one piece of golf equipment that is unambiguously useful and that most amateurs have not bought for themselves. The TecTecTec VPRO500 is the budget laser that started the value category: 6x magnification, a 1-yard rated accuracy and a real slope mode, at a price that does not sting if it lives at the bottom of a bag. Our budget rangefinder roundup ranks the alternatives.
What to skip
Engraved anything, unless the engraving is the point of the gift and the object underneath would have been bought anyway. An engraved divot tool is still a divot tool, and everybody already has four.
Clubs.Six golfers, six swing speeds, six sets — there is no single club that fits a group, and a club that does not fit gets sold.
Anything that needs a shoe size. The returns alone will outlast the honeymoon.
