I bought these cobra rain gloves over a year ago for a golf trip where I knew it was going to be raining:[https://www.cobragolf.com/stormgrip-rain-gloves-pair](https://www.cobragolf.com/stormgrip-rain-gloves-pair)
Over the past year, I’ve started using just the left hand of the rain glove more and more for normal rounds when there’s no rain, and I’ve finally realized that I actually prefer them over their leather counterparts.
I do admittedly like the way fresh cabretta leather gloves feel right out of the packaging, but it seems to me that after just a single round, once you sweat into it and they dry, the feel just becomes different, and the leather tends to stretch out so it doesn’t fit as snugly anymore either. And it only gets exponentially worse as you put more rounds on it. I’m sure pros play with a new glove every round, or maybe even switch mid-round, but 99% of us can’t afford to do that. With the rain gloves, which have a sort of suede-material, the fit is identical from shot to shot and round to round. To this day, with probably 20+ rounds and even some range sessions on them, the rain glove still feels and fits exactly like the first day I used them. Even though the rain gloves are supposed to perform better as they get more wet, I feel like they work great when they’re dry as well – I’ve never once had an issue of it slipping or not feel secure when swinging. If anything, when my hands get sweaty, the suede material seems to just absorb the sweat, whereas leather tends to get swampy and slippery inside.
Maybe the ONE advantage that cabretta leather gloves have is that because they’re thinner, they probably provide slightly better “feel”? But even that is insignificant to me – during full swings, I can’t really feel the difference anyway, and I take my glove off for chips and putting.
If only there was a way to buy these rain gloves separately instead of as a pair. Any lefties in the LA area want to buy a bunch of these gloves and split them with me? Lol