I don’t know about you, but I tend to look a little funny at guys who wear two gloves on the golf course.  Unless it’s raining, or the temperature is below 40, it just doesn’t seem right to me.  When was the last time you saw a PGA pro with gloves on both hands?

If two gloves is a little weird, what would you think of a guy wearing 1½ gloves?  A company called Game Theory is poised to provide us with the opportunity to answer that question.  Launching soon is their product, The Digital Shield.  While the name suggests that we’re talking about a network firewall, or some other sort of Internet security device, The Digital Shield is actually a golf glove for “the other hand”.

According to the company, The Digital Shield is:

A streamlined, open-palmed glove for the bottom hand, created to protect against blistering and chafing while maximizing tactile sensitivity. It is the only glove of its kind that conforms to USGA and R&A Rules

We’ve all seen the guys, Tiger Woods (and my neighbor, Frank) among them, with little bits of tape wrapped around their fingers to protect their digits (now the name makes sense) from just the sort of problems the Digital Shield, which covers your thumb, index, and middle fingers helps to prevent.

The material composition of the Digital Shield is very similar to many 5 finger models on the market.  It features:

So why the Digital Shield?  Why not just wear a second glove?  Although the company won’t come out and say it, I will…wearing two full gloves is stupid; dumber still if they don’t match.  Yeah…I suspect you’ve seen that guy too.  I hate one black, one white glove guy.

For their part, Game Theory maintains that full, or even half finger gloves (like those silly one for women that have fingernail holes), are unnecessarily hot, provide excess grip, and most importantly compromise feel.  Personally I’ve never given any thought to the heat issue, but the excess grip thing sounds good (especially if you’re a club-choker like I am).  Feel, of course, is extremely important, which is why 90% of us take our glove off before we putt.  The other 10% do it because Tiger does it.

For those of you not willing to risk potential ridicule on the links in exchange for unblemished hands, the guys behind the Digital Shield suggest that it’s a great way to protect your hands while you beat buckets at the driving range.  Imagine being able to hit a few hundred (or thousand) golf balls without having to worry about ruining your hands prior to your weekend grudge match.  You have to admit, it makes more than a little bit of sense.

The Digital Shield will be available in early July for a retail price of $11.99.  It will be available in men’s sizes small, medium, medium large, large, and XL.  Women’s sizing eliminates the XL.  Because the Digital Shield doesn’t have fingers, cadet sizes aren’t necessary.

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