How to Dress for Golf
What You Should Wear On the Course, Including Shirts, Pants and Hats
Sep 1, 2009
When you’re getting ready for your round,-girls or guys, men or women-know that you have to look the part to play the part. Whether it is dressing to impress the friends you’re hitting with, some business associates, or that good-looking beer girl or cart guy on the course, having the right fits will make you feel good and look like a player, whether your game matches it or not.
Shirts With Golf Fashion
This isn’t the local rec center or the YMCA. Nope, not the gym or the basketball courts. Know that this is a country club game refined with culture and gentlemen, so bring out your finest threads before you find the clubhouse. Tee-shirts or cut-offs will generally not cut it. Find a polo that defines your arms, something light and loose, that will keep your swing light and will keep you from inducing sweat stains for four hours. Golf polos can be bought cheaply for $10-15, and designer ones can run up to $70-80, and are an essential part of your golf garb, whether you’re wearing Tiger Woods Sunday red or not.
Head gear to Wear With Golfing Clothes
You will be hard pressed to find a golfer on tour-PGA or LPGA-without some kind of accessory on their head. With the sun beating on your head and face for upwards of five hours, sunglasses and hats have become essentials for most amateurs and professionals. While the TW Nike hats have become popular, as have Callaway caps, one of the trendiest trends in golf has been the visor, perfected by the like of Ian Poulter. With strands of golden white spiked through the top, visors have provided some style and hair mousse on the golf course, perhaps at the contempt of the more follicly challenged older generation.
What Pants to Wear For Golf
Some think that golf may be defining fashions around the world-in the United States and in Europe. Some may think they’re 20 years behind fashion, or some may think they’re ahead of the times. Other just think that the PGA has tried to bring back retro styles since the 1990s. Pants have been an ever changing part of golf, and looks have differed from pin-striped suit pants with white belts, to the famous knickers of the late Payne Stewart, to the white pants of Camillo Villegas and the modest blacks of Tiger Woods. Lately, John Daly has signed a contract with Loudmouth Pants, a popular golf outfitter that has provided some of the more outrageous colors and designs on the professional tour.
Why How You Dress For Golf is Important
Whether your are loudmouth or modest, dressed to impress or dressed to blend, how you play says the most, and hitting a 15-foot putt, striking an approach shot or lacing one down the fairway looks as good as any style you can put together, tee to green, parking lot to club house.
Once you look the part with your golfing attire, you must play the part of a skilled golfer. See the following for tips and advice:
