Father’s Day Golf Gear Gifts 2025

Father’s Day coincides with the final round of the U.S. Open, of course, so while Dad’s taking up his position on the couch ahead of an afternoon of watching the world’s best players take one last trip around a fearsome Oakmont, be sure to surprise him with something that will help him enjoy a game at his hopefully more accommodating home course.

It’s been a couple of weeks since we featured a zero-torque putter (shaft axis in line with the center of gravity, reducing face-rotation considerably and keeping the face square to the path of your stroke) which almost feels strange given how popular they’ve become and how much internet space they’re taking up now. But they’re back in the news with PXG’s release of the Double Black Allan putter ($600).

Originally released at the end of last summer, the hollow-bodied, polymer-filled Allan (named after Bob Parsons’s – the founder of PXG – brother), attracted a lot of attention and the Double Black version is sure to follow. If Dad hasn’t tried a zero-torque putter yet, you might be about to change his world.

TaylorMade’s recently-launched Spider 5K-ZT is another option. And, of course, there’s always L.A.B. Golf, whose putters are largely responsible for igniting the ZT revolution.  

Ben Griffin quit professional golf, became a mortgage officer, and then returned to the competitive game, winning on the PGA Tour twice in the last couple of months and earning over $5 million. And if that isn’t enough of a story for you, he did it with a brand of golf ball that is enjoying a similar (ish) revival.

Originally-owned by Dunlop Slazenger, Maxfli golf balls were once very popular on the PGA Tour but lost their reputation after being bought, in 2003, by TaylorMade which changed Maxfli from a brand of premium balls to one of bargain distance balls (presumably to avoid it taking market share from TaylorMade’s own Tour-caliber golf balls). Dick’s Sporting Goods acquired it in 2008 and has since made changes to Maxfli’s course. Griffin plays the Tour X, a four-piece, 100 compression golf ball with a urethane cover.

Again, if Dad hasn’t tried it, you should be the one to introduce it to him. Beyond the usual thanks for receiving a gift, he will thank you for showing him how good a $40/dozen ball can be.

There’s a good chance your dad carried a Ping Hoofer ($275) back in the day (it was created in 1989 and brought to market in the mid-‘90s) and, as Ping says, “Generations have relied on this lightweight workhorse for its ease of use and practical attributes.”

It’s been updated (now with 16 pockets, padded shoulder straps, a reconfigured bottom with club-divider base, and scratch-resistant leg guards) and is now available in seven colorways. And if Dad no longer walks and carries, Ping’s DLX is a sturdy cart bag with a strap channel that allows unobstructed access to all the pockets.

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