Stratus Soft Golf Glove vs Vice Drip Golf Balls: which is safer?
Vice Drip Golf Balls is our pick: better on PFAS and on the overall hazard picture.
TaylorMade
Stratus Soft Golf Glove
PFAS grade
Excellent 85/100
Overall grade
Good 59/100
Verdict
Skip
Hazard flags
⚑ 4
Material
Leather, synthetic leather, or treated textile blend
Confidence
68%
PossibleFormaldehyde resins in leather finishing
PossibleChromium (Cr III/VI) from leather tanning
PossibleAzo dyes and colorant additives
Our pick
Vice Golf
Vice Drip Golf Balls
PFAS grade
Excellent 85/100
Overall grade
Excellent 85/100
Verdict
Buy
Hazard flags
none flagged
Material
synthetic polymer core with urethane/elastomer cover
Confidence
72%
Where these two actually differ
- We flag Formaldehyde resins in leather finishing, Chromium (Cr III/VI) from leather tanning, Azo dyes and colorant additives and Formaldehyde releasers in synthetic overlays and adhesives on the TaylorMade and not on the Vice Golf.
- The TaylorMade is Leather, synthetic leather, or treated textile blend where the Vice Golf is synthetic polymer core with urethane/elastomer cover, which is most of the difference in these two grades.
- These two are level, close enough that price and fit should decide it rather than our grade.
Both products run through the same public rubric: materials, coatings, brand disclosure, lab findings, and recalls, plus a beyond-PFAS hazard analysis. Grades are model-based estimates, not lab tests. How grades work →
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