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Re: Gear that works.
A couple that have already been mentioned, MacWet gloves and my Galvin Green umbrella.
The gloves are brilliant. They are that good that you don't even think about whether you'll be able to grip the club or not, it isn't even a question after a few swings with them.
It is a very weird feeling having them slimey to the touch but as soon as you get a golf club in your hands you lose all doubt about them. I also tried to keep wringing the excess water out of them every couple of holes as best I could while I was wearing them, but it isn't easy. I daren't take them off to do it in case I couldn't get them on again.
A few people have mentioned being very cold, but I found after the initial 15-20 minutes while my hands got used to them that I never felt I had cold hands the rest of the way round. Maybe it was the dozen layers keeping my body warm that helped.
The umbrella was a long drive prize from the GM organised Beau Desert meet the year before last, and this was the first time I'd used it because my usual one had been lent out. As Anthony said, it took some abuse and shows no signs of damage at all. It was even turned inside out at least once.
My approach to not wanting to chase down the fairway after my brolly as a few others had to was to leave it
tightened into the brolly holder.
It worked. Not even the strong wind on Sunday could blow my brolly away while it was bolted to a trolley laying on its' side.
Bearing that in mind honourable mentions have to go to the Hillbilly trolley and umbrella holder which took the same abuse that the umbrella did and the worst that happened is that I had to put the battery back on its' tray.
Sunderland waterproofs were just that. Only wetness was socks (see below), bottom of trousers, and a slightly moist back of my collar.
My 3 year old FJ AQL's are NOT waterproof. Couldn't tell you if they ever were or not.
My laser won't read distances in heavy rain, although it did in the lighter rain even though my view through it was very very foggy.
Zippo Blu lighter does NOT do what it says on the tin. I could hear the gas, I could see the sparks, but it wasn't going to light. Thankfully the chap in the halfway hut set fire to a bit of paper on his pilot light so I could have 1 cigarette during the round and I thanked him by assuming that rubbing it on the ground and holding it in the rain would put the embers out before I threw it in the bin. Sorry
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My next essential purchase for wet weather golf?
A box of matches and a waterproof poly bag.
A couple that have already been mentioned, MacWet gloves and my Galvin Green umbrella.
The gloves are brilliant. They are that good that you don't even think about whether you'll be able to grip the club or not, it isn't even a question after a few swings with them.
It is a very weird feeling having them slimey to the touch but as soon as you get a golf club in your hands you lose all doubt about them. I also tried to keep wringing the excess water out of them every couple of holes as best I could while I was wearing them, but it isn't easy. I daren't take them off to do it in case I couldn't get them on again.
A few people have mentioned being very cold, but I found after the initial 15-20 minutes while my hands got used to them that I never felt I had cold hands the rest of the way round. Maybe it was the dozen layers keeping my body warm that helped.
The umbrella was a long drive prize from the GM organised Beau Desert meet the year before last, and this was the first time I'd used it because my usual one had been lent out. As Anthony said, it took some abuse and shows no signs of damage at all. It was even turned inside out at least once.
My approach to not wanting to chase down the fairway after my brolly as a few others had to was to leave it
tightened into the brolly holder.
It worked. Not even the strong wind on Sunday could blow my brolly away while it was bolted to a trolley laying on its' side.
Bearing that in mind honourable mentions have to go to the Hillbilly trolley and umbrella holder which took the same abuse that the umbrella did and the worst that happened is that I had to put the battery back on its' tray.
Sunderland waterproofs were just that. Only wetness was socks (see below), bottom of trousers, and a slightly moist back of my collar.
My 3 year old FJ AQL's are NOT waterproof. Couldn't tell you if they ever were or not.
My laser won't read distances in heavy rain, although it did in the lighter rain even though my view through it was very very foggy.
Zippo Blu lighter does NOT do what it says on the tin. I could hear the gas, I could see the sparks, but it wasn't going to light. Thankfully the chap in the halfway hut set fire to a bit of paper on his pilot light so I could have 1 cigarette during the round and I thanked him by assuming that rubbing it on the ground and holding it in the rain would put the embers out before I threw it in the bin. Sorry
.My next essential purchase for wet weather golf?
A box of matches and a waterproof poly bag.
