Golf Stocking Fillers and Secret Santa Gifts for Golfers

Small golf gifts are harder than big ones.

With £50 or £100 you have options. With £10 you are one bad decision away from buying somebody a novelty ball marker shaped like a pint glass, which they will thank you for and then never see again.

So here is what actually works at the small end.

Golf stocking fillers that get used

A sleeve of premium balls (£5–£10). The best small golf gift there is. A sleeve of three graded premium balls costs a fraction of new and plays the same. Golfers lose balls constantly and almost never buy themselves the good ones. Want more than three? See our full range of used golf balls.

Tees (£5). Deeply unglamorous. Universally needed. Golfers snap tees every round and restock roughly never. If they use a driver, go for a longer tee like our 83mm bamboo tees; 54mm covers irons and shorter tee shots. Both are in our golf tees range.

Ball markers (£5–£10). Most golfers use a coin off the floor. A proper marker like the Tiger Ball Marker & Divot Tool is a small upgrade they would never buy themselves.

A golf towel (£10–£20). Actively used every round, and the one they have is filthy.

A cap (£15–£20). Same logic. Golf caps live outdoors and age badly.

What to avoid in a stocking

Anything with a golf joke on it. Golf-branded confectionery. Novelty putters for the office. Books about golf that the person did not ask for.

The rule is simple: if it cannot go in the bag or be worn on the course, it will end up in a drawer. Everything in our golf accessories range passes that test.

Secret Santa gifts for golfers

Secret Santa usually comes with a hard limit, so it depends where the line is.

£10 limit

A sleeve of premium graded balls or a pack of tees. Both are recognisably useful and neither looks cheap.

£15–£20 limit

A glove, if you know the size and hand — the FootJoy StaSof is £17.99, and the rest are in our golf gloves range. Or two sleeves of A-grade premium balls, which comes to £16. We have gone through this budget in more detail in golf gifts under £20.

£25–£30 limit

This is where a small gift box starts to work. Our Members Box is £28 and covers several categories at once, which is a much better Secret Santa outcome than one item at the same price. It also arrives gift-ready, which matters when you are wrapping in the office kitchen at 4pm.

The glove warning

If your small gift is a glove, you need two pieces of information: the size (S, M, M/L, L or XL) and which hand.

Golfers wear the glove on their lead hand, which is the opposite hand to the one they play with. Right-handed golfer, left-hand glove. It catches almost everyone the first time. Our golf glove size guide covers it properly.

Building a golf stocking from scratch

If you want to fill a stocking rather than buy one item, a solid combination is:

• A sleeve of premium balls
• A pack of tees
• A ball marker
• Something they will wear — a cap or a towel

That comes to roughly £30–£40 and covers everything a golfer runs out of. It is also, more or less, what goes into a gift box — which is why we started building them in the first place.

Have a look at what we put together over on our Christmas golf gifts page, or if the main present is still open, our golf ball advent calendar puts a collector ball behind each of twelve doors. Comparing calendars? Our best golf advent calendars 2026 guide covers prices and release dates.