Après Golf makes hi-loft sherpa fleece headcovers, hand-sewn in California, and sews vintage patches onto them — ski resorts, country clubs, and whatever else turns up. Fifty pieces are below, across eight groups, all of them in stock on 9 September 2026.
The idea starts with the name. Après-ski is the part of a ski day that happens after the skiing, and the patches that end up on these covers came off ski jackets: Chamonix, St. Moritz, Alta, Mad River Glen. Après buys them, cuts fleece around them, and sells the result to golfers. The brand describes what it does plainly on its own site — “We source vintage patches, create new patches, embroider logos and print custom designs.” The sewing happens in a California factory that has been running since 1992, at a mill that also supplies fleece to outdoor and fashion labels.
If you want the short version: the tie-dye prints are the ones people stop you about, the vintage patches are the ones that will not be repeatable, and the whole catalogue is really an advertisement for the custom programme, where you post them a patch of your own.
Après prints and dyes its own fleece, and this is the part of the catalogue that looks like nothing else on a first tee.
Five solid neons designed by Hally Leadbetter, each sold as a three-piece set with a matching alignment-stick sleeve.
Bears and bolts, across headcovers, a blade cover and a mallet.
A supply chain that runs on ski swaps and clubhouse drawers rather than on a production calendar.
The archive is finite. Fifty-six club patches and eleven ski-resort patches are listed in stock today, and each design exists in whatever quantity Après managed to buy. There is no reorder. When a resort patch runs out it is gone in a way that a printed colourway never is, which is why the vintage rack turns over faster than the rest of the catalogue.
The ski patches are the older objects. Chamonix hosted the first Winter Olympics in 1924 and St. Moritz the second in 1928; Alta opened in 1938; Mad River Glen has been a skier-owned co-operative since 1995 and still refuses snowboards. Their patches were made to be sewn onto jackets and hats, in an era when a resort visit produced a physical souvenir rather than a geotag.
The club patches read differently. A Los Angeles Country Club or Olympic Club crest carries an access question with it — these are private clubs, and the patch is a thing a member or a guest once had. Après makes no claim about provenance and neither do we; what is on offer is the object, not the membership.
And the sweaters follow the same logic. Après describes the Sunday Sweater rail in its own product copy as “collecting vintage and vibrant golf sweaters from the ’80s and ’90s”, and ties it directly to the covers: each one has a story “just like the vintage patches we affix atop our American Made fleece headcovers.” One brand, one instinct, applied to two categories.
Après photographs its own product on courses rather than on seamless.
Where the name stops being a pun. Genuine resort patches, sewn onto golf headcovers.
Fifty-six club patches are in stock today. These six are the ones a reader is most likely to recognise.
Après buys secondhand intarsia golf sweaters from the 1980s and 90s and resells them one at a time.
Après publishes three named endorsements on its own site. All three run here in full.
“In a space that’s become more crowded and less original, Après Golf sticks out for its sharp and unique products that are design catnip for the golf diehards and wannabes alike.”
— Brendan Porath, Shotgun Start podcast
“I’m a huge headcover fan, always trying to find clean, unique looks for my golf clubs, and the Apres teams continually knocks it out of the park with the products they produce. I got headcovers made for my yearly buddies trip and the fellas gushed about the quality, the styles, and the colorway options.”
— Shane Bacon, golf broadcaster and writer
“My favorite headcover from Après is the Rolex Patch Driver Cover. Adding a little Sherpa to accessorize your bag takes your style to the next level!”
— Brad Tilley, USGA amateur
Après publishes no founder name on its About, Custom, Careers or Contact pages, and none surfaced elsewhere, so there is no maker’s quote to run alongside these.
Après puts its own private-label blank under the graphics: 9.4 oz, 80% cotton and 20% recycled poly, cut relaxed and sold unisex.
The custom programme, the two-logo cover, and the house print.
Sherpa fleece is a knitted pile fabric with a deep, curled nap on the face. Hi-loft means the pile is left long rather than sheared flat, which is what gives an Après cover its bulk and why a printed colourway sinks into the surface instead of sitting on it. Après states its fleece comes from a mill that also supplies outdoor and fashion brands.
Hand-sewn in California. Après states on its custom page that the factory doing the sewing has been in business since 1992. The brand markets the covers as American made.
Après says it sources vintage patches, creates new patches, embroiders logos and prints custom designs, so the catalogue mixes all four. Individual listings do not carry provenance documentation, and Après makes no authenticity claim on a per-patch basis.
It carries a different patch on each face, so one cover serves two marks. Après describes it as patent pending and aims it at tournaments and corporate outings needing two logos, and at clubs running a member-only logo alongside a public one.
Yes. The Send Us Your Patch cover is $118 and works exactly as named — you post them the patch and they build the headcover around it. Après also runs a separate wholesale and custom programme through sales@apresgolf.com for pro shops, clubs and events.
Secondhand golf sweaters from the 1980s and 90s that Après buys in and resells, named after players rather than makers. They run $88 to $98 and each is a single garment in a single size, so the rail changes constantly.
The range runs $38 to $138. Printed and solid fleece starts at $38, the Grateful-Dead-style bear covers sit at $88, and the vintage club and resort patches occupy the top of the range from $88 to $138. Shipping is free on all orders.
