Why was a headcover deemed a health hazard? | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

How can a golf club headcover be harmful to your health? By eating it, perhaps?

That was the suggestion from Jeffrey Herold, the president and CEO of West Coast Trends. His company, which manufactures the popular Club Glove golf travel bags and assorted other products, including headcovers, recently paid to settle a lawsuit brought by a plaintiff arguing that the Club Glove headcover was in violation of California’s Proposition 65.

Known also as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, Prop 65 requires labels on products containing chemicals “known to the state of California to cause cancer or reproductive harm.”

The product in question was a driver headcover that, according to the settlement agreement, contained “di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate without first providing Proposition 65 health hazard warning.”

Herold was asked how it might be harmful to one’s health. “You would have to eat it, probably,” he said.

He and other small and large business owners …