What FootJoy actually publishes about it
Glove marketing is unusually vague across the whole category, so it is worth separating the two things FootJoy states plainly from the things it only implies.
Breathability, via mesh.Under a “Breathable Mesh” heading, FootJoy publishes that “Soft PowerNet mesh across the knuckles improves breathability, comfort and flexibility”. That placement is the useful detail: across the knuckles is where the glove has to stretch when your hand closes on the grip, so mesh there is doing two jobs at once - venting moisture and letting the material move instead of resisting you.
Grip and durability, via the palm.FootJoy states that the current generation “features FiberSof MicroTac which enhances soft feel and grip performance in key stress areas”. “Key stress areas” is the honest part of that sentence - the heel of the palm and the base of the thumb are where a golf glove wears out first, because that is where the grip twists against your hand through impact. Different WeatherSof generations list either Advanced Performance Leather or Taction2 advanced performance leather in the palm, which is worth knowing because it means two listings using the same model name can differ slightly in material.
The volume claim.FootJoy markets the WeatherSof as “the #1 selling golf glove in the world”, with “more than 90 million” sold. We cannot independently audit a sales figure and we are not going to pretend to. Treat it as what it is: a brand claim, and a reasonable signal that you are not buying something obscure.
One retrieval note, because it affects how much weight to put on all of the above. FootJoy’s own site returns an HTTP 403 to a direct fetch from our infrastructure, so this copy was read from the search engine’s index of FootJoy’s pages rather than off the page itself. The wording is FootJoy’s. The retrieval path was indirect, and you should know that.
Why the two-pack is the actual feature
Here is the thing nobody puts on a glove listing: a golf glove does not wear out, it gets wet and then gets worse.
Four hours of a sealed hand on a rubber grip produces a lot of moisture, and moisture is what kills a glove. It goes slick while you are playing, it stretches under load so the fit you paid for is gone, and then it dries stiff. A golfer who concludes that gloves “only last a few rounds” is almost always describing that cycle rather than genuine wear - the stitching is usually fine when the glove gets thrown away.
The rotation fixes it and nothing else does. Wear one, clip the other to the outside of your bag where air can move across it, swap at the ninth. Two gloves last meaningfully longer than two gloves bought a month apart, because neither one ever spends four straight hours soaked. The WeatherSof arrives set up for that, which is why it is the top pick on both our golf glove roundup and our gloves for sweaty hands page.
Two habits that go with it, both free. Take the glove off between shots rather than wearing it down the fairway. And never dry it balled up in a pocket - the pocket is where gloves go to die.
Sizing: the part that decides whether you like it
A glove that fits badly feels like a bad glove, and the WeatherSof is sold across enough sizes that getting this wrong is entirely avoidable.
It should feel slightly too tight when new. Both synthetic and leather relax with use, so a glove that feels perfect out of the packet will be loose by its fourth round - and a loose glove rotates on your hand under load, which you will experience as the club twisting and probably blame on the grip.
Check three places. No loose material across the palm; your fingers reaching the end with no spare fabric at the tips; and a closure that fastens comfortably in its middle range rather than pulled to the limit of its travel.
Check whether you need a cadet. A cadet size is the same palm width with shorter fingers, and it is the most commonly missed sizing option in golf. If your correct size has fingers that feel too long, and the size up fits the fingers but swims in the palm, you are a cadet and have probably never been told. Our guide to which hand a golf glove goes on covers the measurement and the cadet question in full.
And the hand: the glove goes on your leadhand, which is the left hand if you play right-handed. The listing we verified states this explicitly in the title - “Worn on Left Hand” - because enough buyers get it wrong that Amazon puts it in the product name. Gloves are named for the hand they fit, not the hand you write with.
Three honest reasons to buy something else
This is the top pick on our roundup, not the right glove for everybody. Three cases where it is not.
You want the thinnest possible feel. A premium cabretta leather glove - the Titleist Players is our pick there - is noticeably thinner and closer to bare-handed. It is the better glove on a dry day in every way except price and lifespan. If feel is what you care about and replacing gloves more often does not bother you, buy leather and accept the trade knowingly.
Your hands sweat heavily and you want maximum venting. The WeatherSof vents across the knuckles. The Callaway Weather Spann publishes micro-ventilation on four separate areas - palm, thumb, closure and fingers - which is the more specific ventilation claim of the two, and it is usually the cheaper glove. Our sweaty-hands page works through that comparison properly.
You are playing in actual rain.Rain gloves are a different product: they grip best when soaked from the outside, and they are designed and sold to be worn as a pair on both hands. No all-weather glove, this one included, is a substitute in a downpour. “All-weather” in glove naming means “copes with damp”, not “waterproof”.
What it costs, and how to think about that
We do not print a price in prose, because the live number on the card above is the only one that is true when you read this - and glove prices move around a lot. What is worth saying is the shape of the decision.
Per glove, the WeatherSof two-pack sits in the middle of the category: well above the cheapest synthetics, well below a premium leather glove. Divide the pack price by two before you compare it against a single-glove listing, which is the comparison most buyers forget to make and the reason the WeatherSof looks dearer than it is on a search results page.
It is also one of the few pieces of golf equipment where the cheap option and the right option are close to the same thing. A glove is not a club; there is no performance ceiling you grow into. Buy a mid-priced all-weather glove in the correct size, own two, and the gear question is closed for a season. If you are assembling the rest of the bag at the same time, what to put in a golf bagcovers the other ten things that belong in there — and the same buy-cheap-until-you-stop-losing-them logic applies to the other repeat purchase in your bag, which what golf ball should I use works through.