Est. 2026 · The considered guide to golf gifting · Buying guides, not lab reviews

Illustrated portrait of Dan Calloway in the Gifts for Golfers palette

Writer at Gifts for Golfers

Dan Calloway

Golf gifting editor

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

Contact

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