Whether to wear a golf glove is a personal choice. By the end of this article, you should know which gloves are best suited for your current skill level and how much you need to spend. In 2026, we tested 55 golf gloves.
AAA Goat leather
When you choose a glove made from AAA Cabretta, you get a glove that is extremely comfortable. The best AAA Cabretta golf gloves feel like a second skin.
Golf gloves made by AAA Cabretta typically offer a slightly better grip than other types of gloves with the downsides being reduced breathability and a higher price.
U Callaway Tour Authentic Triple Diamond— this year’s co-winner in our test — is $39.99. It scored 24/25 in the grip and feel categories.
Goat leather
The standard Cabretta leather is slightly inferior to the Cabretta AAA leather, but still offers many of the benefits of the Cabretta AAA.
The best value on the market is the Infinity golf glovesscoring 23.5/25 in grip and feel categories and landing at $7.99 before shipping. The best strategy is to stockpile two or three gloves at a time. The Infinity Golf Glove has won our “Best Value” award for the past three years and our readers rave about the balance between price and performance.
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Synthetic golf gloves
If you are new to golf, listen up! Synthetic golf gloves can become your best friend.
Some synthetic golf gloves will run cheaper than Cabretta leather gloves while others, such as the $26.87 Red Rooster ‘Simster’It will be similar in price to the Cabretta gloves. Synthetic golf gloves can be more breathable due to their microfiber construction.
Some golfers use synthetic gloves while practicing or for rounds in heavy rain or heat and save their premium gloves for ideal conditions and more important rounds. The Simster was built specifically for indoor practice.
Some golf gloves feature a blend of synthetics and leather to get the best of both worlds.
Synthetic works well for new golfers for two main reasons.
- Many new golfers struggle to grip the club properly, leading to a decrease in glove durability.
- New golfers cannot overemphasize the “feel” that a second-skin Cabretta glove gives.
For more data on golf gloves, including our line of 55 gloves, click the button below to view our entire 2026 test pool or, if you’re a beginner looking to save time, run with the Infinity Golf Gloves for a while.
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