Custom Golf Towels

This is the only decision that really matters, and it comes down to your artwork rather than your budget. The two methods cost within a few dollars of each other.

Choose embroidery when your design is text, a monogram, initials, a club crest, or a logo with clean solid shapes and a handful of flat colors. Thread has a physical presence that print does not — it catches light, it has texture, and on a waffle-weave towel it reads as considered rather than mass-produced. It is the right call for club championships, member gifts, groomsmen, and any logo that already works as a flat two- or three-color mark. See embroidered golf towels in detail.

Choose printing when your design has photographs, gradients, fine detail, more than about four colors, or needs to run right to the edge of the towel. Dye-sublimation turns the ink into gas and bonds it into the polyester fiber, so the color becomes part of the cloth. It does not sit on top like a heat transfer, which means it will not crack, peel or wash off — and it lets you do things thread physically cannot, like a full-bleed photograph of a course. See printed golf towels in detail.

If you are still unsure: hold your logo at arm's length. If it still reads clearly when you can no longer see the fine detail, embroidery will handle it. If losing the fine detail loses the logo, print it.

The designer supports four kinds of content, and you can combine them:

• Your own logo or image. Upload PNG, JPG, SVG, PDF or AI. Vector files (SVG, PDF, AI) give the cleanest result for both methods; if you are supplying a raster image, 300 DPI at final size is the target.
• Custom text. Names, initials, a club, a date, a tournament, an inside joke. Multiple typefaces are available, and you choose the thread or print color per line.
• Clip art. A built-in icon library covering golf motifs, flags, animals, skulls, symbols and more — useful when you want a mark but do not have artwork.
• Pre-made designs. If you would rather not start from a blank towel, our predesigned collection gives you finished layouts you can put your own name on.

Embroidery works to a fixed layout: up to two logos and up to three lines of text, placed in defined positions so the finished stitching sits correctly relative to the fold and the grommet. Printing has no such limits — position anything anywhere, at any size, including across the entire towel.

Both towels are cut from the same premium microfiber waffle-weave, 100% polyester. The waffle structure is what does the work: it holds more water than a flat weave and releases grit rather than grinding it into a clubface.

• Tour Towel — 22" × 40". The full-size option and the one most players carry. Long enough to fold over the bag strap and still have clean cloth in reserve at the sixteenth.
• Mini Tour Towel — 16" × 24". Lighter and less bulky, popular as a gift, a second towel for the cart, or for juniors.

Both include a metal grommet and carabiner clip as standard. Both are machine washable — cold, gentle cycle, tumble dry low, no bleach or fabric softener. Softener in particular coats microfiber and destroys its absorbency, which is the single most common way people ruin a good towel. Full guidance is on our care page.

Embroidered towels come in eight base colors — grey, red, blue, kelly green, olive green, pink, tan and purple — with the thread color chosen separately, so you set the contrast yourself. Printed towels start from a white base, which is what lets the color reproduce accurately; a custom base color is available for an extra $10.

On the job itself: a golf towel is not really for drying your hands. Its actual work is keeping grooves clean. Grass, sand and mud packed into a clubface kill spin and turn a struck iron into a flier, so wiping the face between shots is the single cheapest way to keep the ball behaving predictably. It is also what dries a grip after rain and cleans a ball on the green where the rules allow.

That is why the waffle weave matters. A flat terry towel smears mud around; a waffle structure has depth to lift grit away from the face rather than dragging it across. Dampen one half and leave the other dry — wet side to clean, dry side to finish — and one towel does the whole round.

Most players run the towel through the strap of the bag or clip it to a ring on the outside, which is what the metal grommet and carabiner are for. Some towels solve this with a hole in the middle so the towel hangs over a bag rail; ours use a corner grommet instead, which keeps the full surface usable and lets the design hang the right way up.

Most custom golf towel suppliers are promotional-products companies. Their pricing assumes a case quantity, and if you want a single towel with your name on it you are usually out of luck.

We are built the other way round. The designer is a retail tool: design one towel, add it to the cart, check out, done. There is no minimum order and no per-order setup charge on standard designs. The only setup fee that exists is a one-time $50 charge for digitizing a custom uploaded logo for embroidery — that is the cost of converting your artwork into a stitch file, it is charged once per design rather than per towel, and it does not apply to text, clip art, or printed towels at all.

That said, we do plenty of volume work — tournaments, corporate outings, member gifts, charity scrambles, pro shops. If you are ordering for a group, the bulk and no-minimum page covers how that works and how to get a quote.