New ferrules are the cheapest way to make a set of irons feel like yours. For $35 to $60 and an hour of a builder’s time, a stock set from a big-box store gets the detail that tour vans add as standard. Clamp and BB&F’s ring sets are the classic look; Feral is for people who want their irons to start a conversation. A single titanium ferrule on a wedge or putter is the best small splurge in this guide.
The catch is fitting. Unless you are already reshafting, changing a ferrule means taking the head off, so time it with your next reshaft or a loft-and-lie check. Prices were read on each brand’s own store on 1 October 2026.
A ferrule is the small ring, usually black plastic, that sits where the shaft goes into the clubhead. It covers the top of the hosel so you see a clean step from metal to shaft instead of a rough edge and a bead of glue. The epoxy inside the hosel holds the head on, so a ferrule is almost entirely cosmetic, and that is why it is fun to change. Now they come printed with marble and palm trees, ringed in a dozen colours, 3D printed with ribs, or machined from titanium.
The one thing to get right is size. The inside diameter has to match your shaft tip: .355 for most steel iron shafts, .370 for many graphite ones, .335 for woods. Most ferrules here fit .355 and stretch or ream out to .370. Taller and metal ferrules add a little head weight, so mention them to your builder.
Nine picks · $59–$118 for 10Feral Golf was started by Tyler Gruden and Wyatt Hilkene, and it does something nobody else here does: it prints a full graphic on the ferrule. Marble, splatter paint, palm trees and hot dogs all wrap the whole band, and each one comes in packs of 1, 3, 5 or 10, so you can do one wedge or the whole set. Feral 3D prints and precision-makes everything, and it will print your own design for $89 for 10.
Six sets · £26 (~$35) for 10Clamp is the UK headcover brand behind the reworked streetwear covers in our Clamp Brand to Know, and its ferrules are the classic ringed kind, sold ten to a pack with a Clamp pouch. They are made for matching: the idea is that your ferrules pick up a colour from your headcovers. Clamp says to have them fitted by a pro, and it offers fitting at its own HQ in the UK.
Seven sets · $20–$38.50Boyd Blade & Ferrule Co. is Patrick Boyd’s company, and it is the name club builders bring up first. It has designed ferrules for OEMs since 2007, works with eight of them now, and says its catalogue runs past 6,000 designs, with new ones added daily. The plastic sets come ten to a pack in three heights, 1-inch, standard and the 2-inch Double Deluxe, cut for .355 taper tips and reamable for .370.
Three designs · $22.50 for 3, $49 for 10BB&F’s printed ferrules have ribs and grooves you can feel, in colour combinations a moulded ring cannot do. They are printed in ABS in batches, which is why the lead time is 5 to 10 business days.
Four designs · $12.50–$30 eachMetal ferrules are the top end, and BB&F sells them one at a time: titanium at $30 and aluminium at $12.50. Each sits on a thin plastic base ring that your builder turns down so the metal meets the hosel cleanly. Most people put one on a wedge or a putter rather than doing a whole set.
Five shops · $20–$25 a clubFitting a ferrule is a bench job: the builder heats the hosel, pulls the head, slides the new ferrule down the shaft, re-epoxies the head and spins the ferrule on a lathe until it is flush with the hosel. Bring the ferrules with you, and if you have a reshaft or a loft-and-lie check coming up, do it all in one visit. Prices below are from each shop’s own site on 1 October 2026, except the PGA TOUR Superstore price, which TGI confirmed.
It covers the top of the hosel where the shaft enters the head, so the joint looks clean and finished. It is cosmetic. The epoxy inside the hosel holds the head on, not the ferrule.
Usually not. The ferrule slides on from the tip of the shaft, so a builder heats the hosel, pulls the head, fits the new ferrule, re-epoxies and turns it down flush. That is why it is cheapest to do when you are reshafting anyway.
Match the inside diameter to your shaft tip: .355 for most taper-tip steel iron shafts, .370 for parallel-tip and many graphite iron shafts, .335 for most woods and hybrids. Most iron ferrules in this guide fit .355 and can be stretched or reamed to .370.
The PGA TOUR Superstore on North MoPac charges $20 a club. Fab Golf ATX and Southside Golf Co both list ferrule replacement at $25 a club, as of 1 October 2026. Barton Creek Fitting Studio and Daddy Shack quote on request.
A standard 1-inch ferrule makes no meaningful difference. Taller or metal ferrules add a little weight near the head, which can raise swingweight by a point or two, so tell your builder.
