Gifts for Golfers Who Have Everything, Made From Old Clubs
Every family has one golfer who is impossible to shop for. He already owns the rangefinder, the good rain gear, the head covers shaped like animals, and a garage rack of clubs he swears he will get regripped one of these days. Gifts for golfers who have everything usually end up being another sleeve of balls or a gift card, and everybody at the table knows it. The Set of 2 Dark Walnut Golf Club Chairs with Putting Green Cupholder from Colorado Ski Chairs is the rare thing he does not have and would never buy for himself, a matched pair of Adirondack rocking chairs built from real retired golf clubs, finished in dark walnut, made to order in Colorado.
Why the Golfer on Your List Is So Hard to Shop For
Here is the trouble with golfers. They are gear people. By the time somebody has been playing for twenty or thirty years, they have opinions about grip pressure and launch angle, and they have already bought every gadget the pro shop stocked. Gifts for golfers who have everything fall apart on that simple fact. Whatever you find at the store, they either own it, tried it, or decided years ago they did not want it. The good stuff is personal, and the personal stuff is hard to buy off a shelf.
So you end up circling back to consumables. Balls. Tees. A dozen logo towels. All fine, all forgotten by spring. The gift that actually lands is the one that connects to the game without trying to improve it. Nobody needs help with their swing on their birthday. What they want is something that says you were paying attention to the part of golf that is not the score, the years spent chasing a little white ball around with people they like.
That is the lane these chairs live in. They are not equipment. They will not shave a stroke off anyone’s handicap. They are a place to sit and talk about the round after it is over, built out of the exact objects that made the round possible in the first place. For a certain kind of golfer, that hits a lot harder than another gadget.
What These Golf Club Chairs Actually Are
Let us be plain about the object, because the photos do a lot but the details matter. This is a set of two Adirondack style rocking chairs. The backrest and seat slats are built around real retired golf clubs, the shafts and heads left where you can see them, fanned across the back so the chair reads as golf from across the yard. The frame and base are stained Douglas Fir in a deep dark walnut. Each chair stands 55 inches tall, 36 inches deep, and 35 inches wide, so these are full size, sit down and stay a while chairs, not a novelty you admire and never use.
Colorado Ski Chairs is best known for building furniture out of retired skis and snowboards, and this is the same idea pointed at a different sport. The short version on the product page calls it a classic adaptation of the ski chair, and that is exactly right. Same comfortable Adirondack geometry, same weatherproof build, same made in Colorado craftsmanship, just clubs across the back instead of skis. If you have seen the ski chairs and liked them, you already know how these sit.
As gifts for golfers who have everything go, the set of two is the version most people want, because golf is social and a single chair looks a little lonely on a porch. Two of them with a small table between makes a spot, the place you land with a cold drink to relive the front nine hole by hole whether anyone asked or not. The pair currently runs 1191 dollars, marked down from 1590, which for a matched set of handmade furniture is not the impulse buy but is squarely in the range of a serious gift a family might go in on together.
How Many Golf Clubs It Takes to Build a Chair
This is the question everyone asks first, and the answer surprises people. It takes one full set of clubs to build a single chair, eleven or twelve of them, shafts and heads worked into the back and the seat. So a matched set of two chairs takes two full sets, better than twenty clubs all told. That is a lot more hardware than folks picture when they imagine a golf chair, and it is the reason a set of two carries the presence it does. There is real steel in these.
Most people do not have two dozen retired clubs lying around, which is completely normal. For the standard build, Colorado Ski Chairs supplies the clubs from its own stock of retired sets, so you do not need to source anything. If you do have a set that means something, a father’s irons, the clubs somebody swung at the same muni course for thirty years, those can go into the build instead, and that is where these chairs get really interesting. More on that below.
The point is that nobody is stretching one wedge across a whole chair and calling it golf furniture. A full set goes into each one. When the count on a particular material is not something we can promise sight unseen, the honest answer is that these pieces take more gear than people expect and the shop confirms the details from photos before building. With the golf club chairs, though, the math is simple and consistent. One set per chair.
The Putting Green Cup Holder, and Other Small Jokes That Land
Built into the armrest of each chair is a cup holder finished as a tiny putting green, flag and all. It is the kind of detail that makes people laugh the first time they notice it, and then reach over and set their drink in it without a second thought. A plain hole drilled in a board would have done the job. This does the job and gets a smile, which is the whole personality of these pieces in one small feature.
That is the tone the whole chair strikes. It takes the craft seriously and refuses to take itself too seriously. The clubs are real and the joinery is solid, but the putting green in the arm is a wink, a nod to a golfer who has spent a good chunk of their life aiming at exactly that kind of target and missing more of them than they will admit. Give this to someone who three putts and blames the greenskeeper, and watch their face when they spot it.
Little touches like that are why these read as personal instead of generic. A gift for golfers who have everything cannot just be golf themed in the way a mass produced mug is golf themed. It has to feel like somebody who actually gets the game made it. The cup holder, the fanned clubs, the honest wood, they all point at a real person on the other end who has stood in a fairway and knows the difference.
Dark Walnut, and Why the Stain Matters
The dark walnut finish is not a small thing. It is what keeps the whole piece from looking like a craft project and moves it into the range of furniture you are proud to have on the porch. The deep brown stain grounds the metal of the clubs, lets the shafts and heads read clean against the wood, and ages the way good stained furniture should. Against a stone patio or a log cabin wall, dark walnut just works.
The base underneath is Douglas Fir, chosen because it is strong, takes a stain beautifully, and holds up outdoors season after season. Stained Douglas Fir is the backbone of nearly everything the shop builds, and it is the reason these chairs can live outside without falling apart. The whole set is finished to be water and weather proof, so a summer thunderstorm rolling over the foothills or a dusting of snow in October is not a problem. You do not have to drag these into the garage every night.
Dark walnut is the pictured finish, but the stain is one of the things you can change. If the deck furniture already leans gray or the golfer in question is a lighter wood kind of person, the shop can stain to match. The clubs stay the star of the show either way. The wood is just the setting, and dark walnut happens to be a setting that flatters almost everything.
Where a Set of Two Belongs
The obvious home for these is a porch or a patio, and that is where most of them end up. Two chairs, a small table, a view of the yard, and you have made the spot where the day winds down. For golfers, that spot tends to double as the unofficial 19th hole, the place the round gets replayed after the clubs are back in the trunk. Every good shot gets a little better in the retelling from one of these.
They also earn their keep indoors. A den, a finished basement, a home bar with a golf theme already going, a sunroom that looks out over the tee box of a course community, all of them are natural fits. Because the set is finished for indoor or outdoor use, you are not locked into one room or one season. Plenty of people keep them out through the warm months and pull them into a covered space when the snow starts to stack up.
Then there is the world beyond the house. Clubhouses and pro shops order golf club chairs for their entryways and member lounges, the kind of piece that makes a member stop and take a picture. Course communities put them by the first tee. A brewery or a tasting room with a golf crowd will set a pair out and watch them become the seats everybody wants. Anywhere golfers gather, a chair literally built from clubs tends to become the conversation.
Made in Colorado, Built to Sit Outside
Every one of these chairs is hand crafted in Manitou Springs, Colorado, at the foot of the mountains, and the shop ships nationwide. That matters for a couple of reasons. First, it means you are buying from a small maker who actually builds the thing, not a factory line stamping out the same chair a thousand times. Second, it means the piece is made to handle real weather, because Colorado weather does not mess around.
The water and weather proof finish is not marketing language, it is a necessity where these are built. A chair that has to survive an afternoon hailstorm and a January cold snap has to be finished for the outdoors from the start, and these are. The Douglas Fir base, the sealed wood, the hardware, all of it is built to live outside and keep looking good doing it. That is the same durability the shop puts into its ski furniture, carried straight over to golf.
Buying from a Colorado maker also means you can talk to a real person about your build. This is not a drop shipped mystery. If you want to know how the clubs get fitted, how long the build takes, or whether a particular stain will look right, you call the shop at 303.775.7273 and ask. Made to order means made by someone, and that someone is happy to walk you through it.
The Sentimental Build, Their Own Clubs
Here is where a gift for golfers who have everything stops being clever and starts being the kind of thing people keep forever. Instead of clubs from the shop’s stock, you can send in a set that actually means something, and Colorado Ski Chairs will build the chairs around those. A dad’s irons that have been in the garage since the late nineties. The set somebody carried through a lifetime of Saturday mornings. The clubs from the bag that has not moved in a decade but nobody could bring themselves to donate.
Those builds are the ones the shop handles most carefully, and honestly they are the reason a lot of people order at all. Families send a father’s clubs after he passes and ask for something the grandkids can sit in, a way to keep him in the room without a somber plaque on the wall. Clubs come in for a fortieth work anniversary, for a last round before a big move, for a hole in one that deserved a better souvenir than a scorecard in a drawer. The shop sends photos along the way so you can see the set becoming the chair.
If you do not have clubs to send, that is fine, the shop has plenty of its own waiting for a second career. And if you want the sentimental version but only have one meaningful set for a pair of chairs, the shop can build your clubs into the visible parts and match the rest from its own stock, so the gift still carries the story where it counts. There is a dedicated Sentimental Golf Club Chair built exactly for that, made from your old clubs or ours.
Gifts for Golfers Who Have Everything, Solved by a Chair
Some gifts announce the occasion. A set of two golf club chairs is one of them. Retirement is the big one, the natural send off for someone who is about to have a great deal more tee time on their hands. A plaque goes in a drawer. A chair built from the clubs of a career goes on the porch and gets used every good evening for the next twenty years. If you have ever stood at a retirement party wondering what on earth to hand someone after three decades, this is the answer.
Anniversaries, milestone birthdays, and the classic gift for the couple who golf together all fit the set of two perfectly. Two chairs, two golfers, one spot to argue about who really won. It works as a joint gift too, the sort of thing a family or a foursome of buddies chips in on together because it is more than any one person wanted to spend and exactly right when everybody shares the load.
On the business side, golf and client relationships have gone together since the first handshake on a first tee, which makes these a genuinely good corporate gift. A set for a valued client’s lake house or a retiring executive’s patio says something a branded golf towel never will. Clubs also get ordered for member guest tournaments, pro shop raffles, and end of season prizes, the kind of award people actually fight to win. If you want a company logo worked in, the scene and the wood are the shop’s canvas, and any branding goes on as a decal or applique rather than paint so the mark holds its exact shape and color, with branded pricing quoted on a call. Reach the shop at 303.775.7273 to talk through a bulk or branded order. You can see the full lineup under golf club chairs.
Customization and How Ordering Works
These are made to order, which means you get some say in how yours turn out. The stain color can change from the pictured dark walnut. Matching ottomans are available if the golfer in question likes to put their feet up, and most do. The chairs can be built as rockers or left stationary depending on your preference. If you have a special request, the shop is genuinely open to it. They work with barn wood, skis, snowboards, wine barrels, beetle kill, cedar, redwood, and Douglas Fir, and they paint, stain, wood burn, and carve, so the golf club chair is a starting point, not a limit.
Ordering is straightforward. You pick the set, note any customization you want, and the shop builds it. If you are sending your own clubs for a sentimental build, you get in touch first and the shop walks you through where to ship them. Production takes a bit of time because these are hand built one at a time, not pulled off a shelf, so if the chairs are meant for a specific date like a retirement party or a holiday, order with some runway. A quick call to 303.775.7273 gets you a realistic timeline for your build.
Among gifts for golfers who have everything, this is one of the few that rewards a little planning. Because a set of two is a real piece of furniture with real weight to it, thinking through where it lands before it arrives saves you a step. Measure the porch, picture the two chairs and a small table, and you will know exactly where they go the day they show up. After that, the only decision left is who gets which chair, and that argument is half the fun.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many golf clubs does it take to make one chair?
One full set, eleven or twelve clubs, goes into each chair, so a matched set of two takes two full sets, better than twenty clubs in all. You do not need to supply them. Colorado Ski Chairs builds from its own stock of retired clubs unless you want to send a specific set of your own.
Can you build the chairs from my own golf clubs?
Yes. Send in a set that means something and the shop builds it into the back and seat so the shafts and grips stay recognizable. If you only have one meaningful set for a pair of chairs, they build your clubs into the visible parts and match the rest from their own stock. It is one of the most popular ways to order, especially for memorial and retirement gifts.
Are these chairs okay to leave outside?
Yes. The set is finished to be water and weather proof on a stained Douglas Fir base, built in Colorado to handle real weather. You can keep them on the porch or patio year round, though many owners pull them into a covered space during the hardest part of winter to extend the finish even further.
What are the dimensions and the price?
Each chair is 55 inches tall, 36 inches deep, and 35 inches wide. The set of two currently runs 1191 dollars, marked down from 1590. Matching ottomans and stain color changes are available, and custom or branded orders are quoted separately.
The Gift That Ends the Search
If you have been hunting for gifts for golfers who have everything and coming up with another gift card, stop hunting. A set of two golf club chairs built from real clubs, finished in dark walnut, with a putting green cup holder in each arm, is the thing they do not have and would never buy for themselves. Take a look at the Set of 2 Dark Walnut Golf Club Chairs with Putting Green Cupholder, or call the shop at 303.775.7273 to talk through your own clubs, a custom stain, or a matching pair of ottomans. Worst case, the golfer finally has a proper place to sit and explain exactly why that last putt lipped out.
