The Spotless Swing Towel is a new 3-in-1 towel that provides an area to clean your hands/grips, an area to clean your clubs, and then a built-in “microbrush” fabric that keeps your grooves nice and clean on the course.
Honestly, I’ve always been a $2 towel from Walmart kind of guy, but the Spotless Swing Towel generated a surprising amount of buzz at the PGA Merchandise show. So does it live up to the hype? Read on to find out.
A towel is a towel, right? Maybe not. I’ve always used cheap white towels that can be found at Walmart for a few bucks (or borrowed from a hotel room). They certainly work, but they have a couple of drawbacks. First, they’re made of cotton, which isn’t a particularly absorbent material (compared to microfibers). Second, they don’t do the best job of getting crud out of your grooves.
The Spotless Swing Towel caught my eye at the PGA Show. I spoke with the guys at the booth and they agreed to send me one to test out. The idea is that the outside of the towel is meant for drying off your face/hands/grips. And the inside of the towel is meant for cleaning your club-heads. That way you’re not trying to wipe off your grips with the same section of towel that’s covered in dirt from your club-heads. It’s a neat idea.
But what really separates the Spotless Swing Towel is that they’ve also added a “microbrush” fabric to the inside of the towel. You can use that section to really scrub the clubface and get your grooves clean. It’s important to have clean grooves in order to maximize the performance of your golf clubs.
The "microbrush" fabric inside the towel
In my testing, the microbrush fabric worked surprisingly well. It’s not the same as a regular brush, so it’s not going to get really caked on dirt out of your grooves. But it definitely does a better job of keeping grooves clean on the course than a regular cotton towel.
The Spotless Swing Towel comes with a carabiner and two grommet locations to attach to your bag. You use the top grommet when your bag is on a golf cart, and you use the bottom one when you’re walking. This makes sure you always have easy access to the opening for your clubs.
Is the Spotless Swing Towel worth the money compared to a regular cotton towel? At $20 it’s priced competitively with most golf towels on the market. I certainly prefer it over the typical cotton “golf brand” towels that often sell for $30 or more.
So if you’re looking for a way easily keep our club grooves clean out on the golf course, the Spotless Swing Towel is definitely worth a look. You can buy it here – if you buy one through the link, it helps keep the lights on around here.
