Cleeks Collab: Art of Golf
14 Events. 14 Unique Bags.
Art of Golf is Cleeks Golf Club’s long-term cultural platform, uniting golf with art, fashion, and culture through artist collaborations played in competition.
For the 2026 season, Art of Golf runs across fourteen events, with one artist collaboration introduced at each stop. Each collaboration results in a custom golf bag designed by an artist and carried by the Cleeks team during professional play.
Together, these collaborations form the Art of Golf 2026 Collection.
A Canvas in Play
Each artist is invited to respond to golf as a system built on discipline, repetition, and pressure. The golf bag becomes the artists canvas, not as a symbolic gesture, but as a functional object used under real tournament conditions.
Built to tour standards and played in competition, the bags carry individual creative perspectives directly onto the course. Many of the artists are locally anchored to the regions where the tournaments take place, allowing each design to reflect not only the artist’s language, but also the cultural context surrounding the course.
Crafted with Vessel
All Art of Golf bags are produced in collaboration with Vessel, one of the leading manufacturers of premium golf bags.
Working closely with each artist and the Cleeks team, Vessel translates creative concepts into fully functional tour-ready equipment. Every bag is engineered to meet professional performance requirements, balancing durability, weight distribution, storage, and carry ergonomics, without compromising the integrity of the artist’s design.
The process bridges creative intent and technical execution, ensuring that each bag is not only expressive, but playable at the highest level of the game.
Printed with Mimaki
Alongside the bags, selected Art of Golf collaborations are extended into limited 3D-printed collectables.
Produced in collaboration with Mimaki, these pieces are created using advanced 3D printing technology that allows complex forms, textures, and colour depth to be realised with high precision. The process translates two-dimensional artwork into physical objects, preserving detail while introducing materiality and scale.
Each collectable is conceived as an extension of the bag — a physical artefact connected to the collaboration, the event, and the artist’s perspective.
Charity and Legacy
Following each event, the played golf bags are retained by the club and offered through charity auctions. All proceeds go to the Martin Kaymer Helianthus Foundation, supporting junior golf through Martin Kaymer’s Junior Trophy.
In this way, each Art of Golf collaboration creates impact beyond the tournament, contributing to the future of the game while expanding its cultural relevance.
Limited Pieces
Each Art of Golf collaboration is accompanied by a small run of limited pieces, including 3D-printed collectibles, posters, and T-shirts available exclusively in the merch tent at each event. Designed as direct extensions of the bag and the artist’s work, these items carry the collaboration beyond the course, capturing the moment, place, and perspective of each collaboration.
