Two things go to every round with you: something on your head and something to drink from. They are also the cheapest way into the brands we like. A cap or a 32oz Nalgene costs less than most shirts, and both get seen more: on the first tee, in the cart and on your desk come Monday morning.
The good ones are thoughtful in small ways. Draw sews a pouch into the side of every cap to hold a tee. Agronomy Workshop builds a pencil holder into its rope hats and puts the pencil in the box. Ebbets Field Flannels stitches the crest of the 1936 Tokyo Giants onto a wool trucker. None of that costs much, and all of it gives you something to talk about with whoever you’re paired with.
The Nalgene is the same idea in plastic. The 32oz wide-mouth bottle is a plain, familiar shape, which makes it a good blank canvas. Illustrators like Mustard Beetle screenprint whole ecosystems around it, Canto and Parks Project make theirs glow in the dark, and Brain Dead turned one into festival merch. Fill it at the turn, carry it to work, and it says more about you than another branded tumbler.
Here are 22 hats and 15 bottles, every one in stock and under $70 when we checked on October 17, 2026.
Fourteen caps from golf labels with a point of view.
Eight from baseball, surf, running and festival makers.
Nine bottles drawn by illustrators and printmakers.
Six from streetwear, parks, bikes and one golf club.
Our picks include Draw's unstructured corduroy and ripstop caps, Agronomy Workshop's rope hats, Parmore's ripstop 5-panel, Quiet Golf's nylon monogram dad hat, Canto's tree camo snapback and Ebbets Field Flannels' 1936 Tokyo Giants trucker, all priced on October 17, 2026.
Every Draw cap has a tee holder side pouch. Agronomy Workshop's 5-panel rope hats have a golf pencil holder and come with a pencil.
Canto's Double Overhead 32oz wide mouth Nalgene and Parks Project's Dark Sky 32oz Nalgene both glow in the dark.
Mustard Beetle sells screenprinted 32oz Nalgenes of its own nature illustrations for $30. Topo Designs sells a Pine Printshop bottle and Otso Cycles sells one drawn by Mary Lytle.
Crust Bikes' Cold Steel Nalgene at $17 and Parks Project's Dark Sky bottle at $19.99 on sale. The cheapest hat is Mustard Beetle's Quail cap at $30.
