Dish soap cleans — we won't pretend otherwise. But cleaning was never the job. Dish soap is a degreaser: its entire mechanism is stripping oils, and over time it strips the oils in leather and the conditioning agents in rubber grips the same way it strips a pan. More importantly, soap and water leave nothing behind. They can't re-proof your bag's water-repellent finish, shield shoe uppers from UV, inhibit oxidation on a raw wedge face, or restore tack to a grip. The moment you rinse, your equipment is bare. Half the Field Kit isn't cleaner at all — it's protection, and there's no soap equivalent for that. Nobody washes a $60,000 car with dish soap; it's not that the car won't get clean, it's that you've stripped the wax and left the paint exposed. Your clubs spend four hours a round getting attacked. What's defending them after the rinse?