After listening to the latest podcast episode of Off Course on THP Radio, the thought about dress codes is fresh in my mind. While the world has gotten more lax with most apparel policy, golf apparel has stayed fairly stagnant.
Simple rules really. Collared shirt or awful Blade Collar and the like, golf shorts and sometimes a course might ask you to tuck in your shirt. Do you think that is too much?
Should it be a free? Would it be more inviting of a game if it was come as you are?
You tell us. Sound off below.
I’ll bet they’d have let you right through if you’d been wearing joggers and a blade collar shirt!
I never look at other players. Gets in my head and can effect my happiness.
I agree it probably won’t look great but I am all for suns out guns out.???
#freethenipple
If that’s how you want to present yourself, and the course allows it, go ahead. Although, I can see you never golf at private courses or tournaments, and are out for fun in a few beers. Many better golfers enjoy dressing respectfully and that’s why they join private clubs so they don’t have to deal with the riff raff.
Lmao, you know little to nothing about me. I play in tournaments and at super nice private courses, and dress accordingly. You know what they say about making assumptions.
This riff raff just shot -3 today soooooooo….
No, I don’t know that much about you, but from the basis of the point you made in this particular post , it comes across as a little bit rebellious and entitled.
Monster!
Or maybe, just maybe, he was just playing loose and having a little fun.
Again, assumptions…Though I definitely have many a callus on my hands from golf.
I thank God I don’t let what others choose to wear to golf bother me so much. That CALLOUS nature is why so many view this game as stuffy and non-inclusive. Golf is fun, and if one is following the rules of where they are playing, then embrace someone enjoying this great game, why is that so difficult for so many?
Oh stop it. No fun allowed unless it’s a collar buttoned to the top dammit!
Went LOW too!
brb dressing casual today…
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Respectful of the integrity and history of the game right there.
I don’t have any difficulty with what you are saying in this post, which has a much different context than in the previous post I actually agree with all you say. I too like to go casual, and with my shirt untucked when appropriate, but I also enjoy dressing for private course/tournament settings. Firstpost says "I’m going to do what I want to do, sue me", second post expresses a respectful description of what you really think, along with thanking God! Quite a contrast.
Or, maybe you should read more posts around the forum and have a better understanding for a joke. Text is hard.
Scramble tournament tomorrow, I think I’ll wear a backwards hat and drink beer, sue me.
Isn’t it crazy looking back at old baseball games and seeing everyone in a 3 piece suit, tie, and hat? (And very few, if any women.)
Even if you didn’t have money, you still tried to look the part, and most pulled it off VERY nicely.
Clothing was more important in a lot of ways. Then it was suits. Now, everywhere I go, its black gym shorts and a grey t-shirt. Yoga for the women.
I dunno where we’re headed…
This may seem contrary when I say "just dress for the course" in other posts supporting inclusion, but like many say, go to Kohls or whereever and no one cares what brand your $10 polyester polo is from the $85 one from the golf big box.
Watch the local pro shop end of season and support your course. Lots of apparel that I got on proshop closeout that is nice. I like the course logos on the shirts too at no cost and deeply discounted no less! Sometimes the colors are a little wonky by the end of the season, so be BOLD!
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My wife says I dress better for golf than I do for anything else. ? She’s not wrong – any other time, I consider a collared shirt and anything but shorts or jeans to be overdressed.
Yeah, I get to wear pajamas (scrubs) at work.
Best part is, they’re the hospitals, so no doing laundry.
Absolutely!
The funny thing is, how many occassions in life do we get dressed to the nines and THEN get drunk like a wedding reception.
I probably look my best when I’m up to my worst. Golf excluded, of course.