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I Counted the Dead Gloves in My Garage

Eleven of them. All killed the same way — and not by my swing.

Artūrs BondarsFounder, GloveTray
4 min read

I didn't set out to invent anything. I set out to stop buying golf gloves.

Last winter I cleared out the garage and found a pile of them: stiff, curled, one of them genuinely crunchy when I opened it. Every one had felt perfect for about three rounds.

If you only read one line: gloves don't wear out on the course. They dry out in your bag — and the shape they dry in is the whole story.

For years I assumed this was just the cost of playing. Buy a glove, love it for two or three rounds, then one morning pull a fossil out of the side pocket and go buy another. A glove a month, like a subscription nobody signed up for.

The habit I was actually proud of

The habit I was actually proud of

I hung my glove on the velcro strap after every round. Felt responsible. It got air, it dried, job done.

It also dried curled, so every round started with me forcing my hand into a stiff shell. I just never connected the two.

“While it may be a little stiff when I first put it on, the air drying helps a lot.”— a golfer on r/golf

Then I tried everything else golfers recommend

Then I tried everything else golfers recommend

The plastic sleeve it came in. A ziplock. Washing it by hand in cold water, once, which I do not recommend.

Every one of them either trapped the moisture or wrecked the leather.

“Because even if you leave it in the packaging after use. It hardens.”— a golfer on r/golf
“Your glove doesn't wear out. It dries out.”
The sentence that annoyed me for about three weeks

The part I had wrong

The leather isn't dying during your swing. It's dying in the eighteen hours after the round — soaked with sweat, crumpled into a ball, drying hard in the worst possible shape.

Which means the thing that decides whether a glove lasts three rounds or three months isn't the glove. It's what you do with it in the five minutes after you walk off.

What golfers report

2–5rounds per glove, stuffed in the bag
10–15rounds per glove, dried open and in shape
4 secto put one away properly

Self-reported figures from golf forums and Reddit, not lab testing.

So I printed a hand

So I printed a hand

An open hand shape the glove slides over, so it dries the way it's worn, with air moving through the leather. Clipped to the bag, where the glove already lives.

Slide it on, clip it, forget it. That's the whole routine.

In short: I didn't want a better glove. I wanted the one I had to stop dying young.

What actually changed

What actually changed

My gloves stopped turning into cardboard. They stopped smelling. And I stopped buying one every few weeks, which was the entire point.

The surprise was the feel — a glove that dries in shape still feels broken in, round after round.

“Nothing feels better than a fresh glove!”— a golfer on r/golf

My old routine vs now

Before

  • Glove crumpled into the side pocket
  • Or hung on the velcro, drying curled
  • Stiff and stained within three rounds
  • A new glove every few weeks

Now

  • Glove slides onto the tray
  • Clipped to the bag, drying open
  • Still soft after months
  • I buy gloves when I want to
Does it fit my glove?

It's sized like a glove — S to 2XL, left or right hand. Match the size you already wear.

Does it work with any brand?

Yes. Cabretta, synthetic, premium or bulk — the tray doesn't care what the glove costs.

What if I don't get on with it?

30 days, money back. I'd rather you sent it back than kept something you don't use.