With the advent of metal-headed drivers, some golfers dispensed with head covers for their “woods.”  The thinking is the head is no longer wood and any damage is limited.  I admit the clanging of metal heads hitting together is a bit of a bother to me but not so for the irons clacking.  So I use head covers on just my “woods” both as a noise dampening method as well as a tip of the cap to traditionalism.  A golf bag just does not look complete without a couple of head covers.

Many people use their head covers to display their allegiance to a college or professional team.  Others prefer the puppet-like large animal heads.  It is also pretty common to see the matched set look.  High rollers can spend $75 and up for a hand knitted Jan Craig cover.  Someone looking at my bag and the head covers I use might correctly decide I am a frugal golfer.  The covers are pretty beat-up yet each one has a story.

Driver – back in 2014 I won a Nike Covert driver in a website drawing.  For someone who rarely wins any sort of drawing or raffle, it was pretty exciting to receive a new driver in the mail.  Of course, the driver came with a standard Nike Covert head cover, which almost immediately began to unravel at the open end.  Eventually the unraveling got so bad this frugal golfer decided to “cauterize” the end strands since the woven material was synthetic.  Which led to everyone asking, “What happened to your head cover?”  At some point in 2015 I lost the head cover.  I realized it was gone but decided it was not worth going back to search for a “cauterized” head cover.  I used an older Callaway cover for the balance of the season.  Apparently my golf buddy felt the Feng Shui of a Callaway cover with a Nike driver was not good so he picked up another Nike cover for me.

“The B” – My granddaughter made my 3-wood head cover from one of her old soccer socks.  In lieu of a “3”, the head cover is emblazoned by a “B”.  When I played Kings Barns in Scotland, the caddy asked about the club and I told him about the switch from “3” to “B”.  That club promptly became “The B” as in, “we don’t want to go too far on this drive, let’s use The B.”  The nick name stuck and I no longer carry a 3-wood but instead have “The B.”

7-wood – I picked up this head cover in 1993 when I played Pebble Beach.  Enough said.

Utility – This is the oldest and rattiest of my covers.  It dates from our practice round attendance at Oak Hill for the 1989 US Open.  Curtis Strange won and I picked up a head cover as a souvenir.

What does everyone else use to protect their Driver and/or fairway woods?  Any stories to share?