Dan Calloway

About Dan

Dan spent fifteen years behind a pro shop counter at a private club in Scottsdale, Arizona — ordering the accessory wall, sizing members for gloves and shoes, and watching what came back through the door in January.

A pro shop counter is a strange vantage point on gifting. Every December and every June the same conversation happens twice a day: someone unwraps a thoughtful, expensive object that is wrong by one variable — the hand, the flex, the compression — and quietly asks whether it can be exchanged. Dan started keeping notes.

He left the counter in 2025 and started Gifts for Golfers to write those notes down properly. Off-season enthusiasms include links courses in bad weather, persimmon woods he cannot justify, and arguing that the best gift in golf costs twenty-two dollars.

How Dan works

• Category before product

  A golf gift is a category decision first: consumable, accessory, or equipment. Get that right and almost any product in the category lands.

• Name the variable that breaks it

  Gloves have a hand, shoes have a size, balls have a compression. Every guide states what you must confirm before ordering.

• No invented tests

  We explain how to choose. We do not claim to have tested products we have not, and we never publish a price or rating we cannot source.

Articles by Dan

• Golf Gifts for People Who Don't Play Golf August 19, 2026

Contact

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