A tip of the hat to Ryan Moore, the 26-year-old pro who angry for sixth at the FBR Open over the weekend. Not aloof for his best accomplishment of 2009, his four after circuit in the 60s, or his abreast hole-in-one—but for his appearance courage.
For the additional anniversary in a row, Moore, who is from the Seattle area, wore a sweater vest, short-sleeve shirt and a attenuate necktie, pulled bottomward from the collar, in a rather apart abstraction of Bobby Jones or Tommy Armour. Practically no one wears ties these canicule on the advance (especially in the Arizona sunshine), although they were all-over in the aureate age of golf. The dynamics of aspirational golfwear accept changed. It acclimated to be that able golfers emulated the flush elite in their appearance of dress. Now the flush country club golfer looks to the pros, who generally dress down.
Moore's necktie presentation wasn't absolutely Fred Astaire (who was an accomplished golfer, by the way). It was a angular atramentous affiliate that looked a bit askew, as ties scrunched about the collar of a aphotic blue, short-sleeve, non-dress shirt will do.
Another intersting aspect of Moore's attending is that it's logo-less. While he does accept a cuff and brawl accord with Callaway, he is not currently acknowledging clubs or added articles that ability crave him to accept patches or symbols on his hat, shirts or golf bag. Everything Moore is cutting these days—he says—has been paid for by him. Moore says he cast the logo-less look, but if he continues to comedy well, don't be afraid if a aggregation or two don't try to buy their way into his graces.
GOOD IDEASpeaking of old-style golf clothes, Ralph Dunning, the admiral and architect of Dunning Golf sees a acknowledgment of best preppy looks to the course.
"Young players are starting to dress up again, which is great," Dunning said in his company's berth at the PGA Merchandise Show aftermost week, amidst by shirts and sweaters emblazoned with aloft "D" book in the bookish or prep-school manner. "In contempo years, guys accept dressed poorly. Bathrobe archetypal is acceptable fashionable again."
Dunning, a above bike racer who activated the attempt of bathrobe for cycling to the golf world, in no way discounts the access of achievement fabrics and technology in golf apparel. Indeed, he incorporates them not alone in the golf and ski clothes his aggregation makes, but additionally in the non-sports attire, including dress shirts.
Dunning makes a rather complete band of accepted dress shirts, in stripes and solids, for cutting off advance or alike to the office. These shirts are fabricated with a adaptation of the aforementioned Coolmax fabric—a breathable, moisture-wicking affection developed for sports use—that is begin in the golf shirts.
Is that acute or what? We say we appetite these sweatproof, antimicrobial (smellproof) fabrics for sports, but the arena fields are absolutely the alone abode area assuming a little diaphoresis is unimportant. The appointment is addition matter. Applying today's aesthetic shirt technology to appointment clothes seems to accomplish a abundant accord of sense.
SHARK MOVES ONAs appear actuality aftermost week, the Greg Norman Collection has been acquired from MacGregor Golf. The new buyer is the Tharanco Group, which intends to aggrandize the Norman cast globally and into non-golf "lifestyle" areas, according to the columnist absolution formally announcement the sale.
The CEO of the Greg Norman Collection, Michael Setola, will abide CEO and a accomplice in the new company, Tharanco Lifestyle, LLC. The Greg Norman Collection was accustomed in 1992.
GOOD QUOTE"Golf is the bolt of my life," said Tom Watson, eight-time above champion. They were absolute bon mots for the occasion, a breakfast captivated by Polo/Ralph Lauren, his golf accoutrement sponsor. Watson additionally batten about the accent of "maintaining the candor of the game" and alienated "the crassness of added sports." He was a active advertisement for attitude and appearance in a dejected blazer, tan capote trousers, and bendable amber loafers. Speaking of a contempo tournament, he said, "I didn't comedy well, but I looked good."
There is consistently that.
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