Amazon Finds: StickIt Magnetic Golf Towel

The Problem

There are few things worse than being in the middle of the fairway or next to the green with a wet, dirty club while your towel is attached to your bag on your cart, 30 yards away.

The Solution

The StickIt Magnetic Golf Towel — a microfiber waffle-weave towel that snaps to a magnetic patch that allows you to bring with you wherever you go and pick it up as easily as hovering your club over the magnet. It even comes with a metal putter grip plug to go into the top of your putter so you can use that to pick it up.

How I Found It

During a recent early-morning round, the amount of dew and grass left on my club after every practice swing was super annoying. I typically have my towel attached to my bag (with a carabiner) but strapping it to my belt loop is less than ideal (not to mention a fashion faux pas), so I went looking for another option.  I happened upon this option on Amazon and with a near five-star rating from more than 2,500 reviews, it felt like a no-brainer to try out for about $25.

How it Worked (and didn’t)

The StickIt Magnetic Towel has a pretty simple concept: Attach a magnet to your golf towel so that you can easily pick it up with any club in the bag, making it easier to bring with you wherever you are.  The argument could be made that, you know, you could just bend over and pick up your non-magnetic towel, which is fair.  But for anyone with even the slightest lower-back issue, something like this feels like a God-send.

The towel is high-quality, super absorbent, and the waffle-knit allows for some good scrubbing of clubs and balls. I had zero issue getting my clubs clean, even when taking what I like to call a “healthy” divot (read: digging to China).  

The magnet inside the removable pouch is strong and the set comes with (as a nice touch) a metallic plug that fits into the hole in the top of your putter, allowing you to flip your putter over and pick up the towel as well.

My only real complaint is that they don’t sell replacement towels. You have to buy a whole new kit or a kit with two towels in it at a very small discount. It would be nice to have a discounted option with just the towels with the snaps built in as a spare or replacement. And because they’re proprietary, attaching any other towel to the magnet isn’t an option.

Bottom Line:

This thing works and works well. If you don’t subscribe to the fashion choice of clipping your towel to your belt loop, you may want to invest the $26.95 to have a great-quality towel that can easily be grabbed by any of your clubs (including your putter).  Plus, I have to admit, the “clicking” to the towel feels way cooler than I could have possibly anticipated and sometimes feeling “cool” after a three-putt goes a long way.