Clothes ruining golf?

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Wilts

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Played yesterday, great day but there were 3-4 players (in different groups) that were dressed in outfits more suited to a circus.

Not that i have a issue with colour but these guys resembled more of a fancy dress night out than a golfer. My point is, that it tarnished the image of this course and to a small extent my round?

Am i being a boring fuddy, or dose anyone else think along similar lines?
 
Played yesterday, great day but there were 3-4 players (in different groups) that were dressed in outfits more suited to a circus.

Not that i have a issue with colour but these guys resembled more of a fancy dress night out than a golfer. My point is, that it tarnished the image of this course and to a small extent my round?

Am i being a boring fuddy, or dose anyone else think along similar lines?
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You'd better not ever play with Murph, RickG or Viscount then!! You need sunglasses to try and tone down the colours when you play with them :D
 
Was it the big red nose or water squirting flower that was the problem?

Seriously, each to there own. As long as they are abiding by the club dress code then what's the problem? In the current economic climate (indeed any economic climate) clubs cannot be turning people away simply because they are wearing clothing which is a little bit loud.

If you are the right age and build then no problem with liking your golf fashion. A 50 year old bloke with 38 inch waisted pink trousers do however take the proverbial.
 
I suppose in order to answer this question properly I have to decide: was my poor display of golf at Beau Desert due to partnering Viscount and/or being in the group infront of Murph????




No, I think you are just being a bit of a "boring fuddy" :D!
 
. A 50 year old bloke with 38 inch waisted pink trousers do however take the proverbial.
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He was and more like a 48 inch waist, Agree that its hard times so clubs cant be too stuffy. i think the thing that was worst about his attire was a baseball top, think the club should have drawn a line there.

i reserve the right to be stuffy, carded a 7 after seeing him!
 
Can't see the problem to be honest, although sometimes my clobber puts even me off.
I just get bored of the beige chinos / navy shirt lot. It is just boring. If you all want to wear the same, join a footy team, or the army.
As long as what you wear meets the dress code, then it doesn't matter.

Any way, I'm not fifty, just 45.

Look at the stuff Seve and Jack N used to wear. That wasn't exactly quiet, and it never did them any harm.

I do draw the line at plus fours though. Used to wear them, but even I realised that was a step too far.
 
If you are the right age and build then no problem with liking your golf fashion. A 50 year old bloke with 38 inch waisted pink trousers do however take the proverbial.
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a slim youth then.

my sponsors will be pleased to note that I have bought some monochrome trousers for next year, not to replace but to expand this years wardrobe. (monochrome = very blue and a shade of red even I haven't seen yet).

like murph I'm fed up with walking into a golf shop and thinking I'm buying stuff more suited to a funeral.

that said I did do muted at Goswick (couldn't get Union Jacks in gross)
 
Nowt wrong with bright wears. Much prefer colour than the tatty looking old men usually on the course who look like they have just either stepped out of c&a or 1980s marks & sparks.
 
I do enjoy it when people wear bright colors on the course. I really like it when old geezers and young geezers wear bright, but tasteful clothes on the course!

I don't think we should tone down colour on the course...

Look at Luke Donald. He's got very colorful outfits, but he wears them with style and shows great taste. I think we should show his dress sense.
 
I think it is a good thing to wear bright clothes!

Personally, I don't do patterns and other designs, just blocks of colour.

However, I have no problem whatsoever with those who choose to wear them! It suits some, (although not many!) and for the others, it is their choice if they want to look like a pair of curtains or Austin Powers!

Just as long as they conform to the basic rules of the course.

I see it as wearing clothes in real life. There are not many people who would go up to somebody they didn't know (visiting golfer) on their town's high street (home club) and tell them that their dress is inappropriate or vulgar.

Who are they to say? In the other person's eyes, it may be visa versa!
 
There's nothing wrong with loud as long as there is some style with it. With a lot of todays lot there isn't.

Poulter is a good example of being loud but still stylish (this year anyway), Daly looks plain daft, Fowler has a kind of 'yoof' style going on he gets away with but the orange colour outfit for day 4 is not good imo.
 
I find it so strange that this subject has reared it's head after this weekend.

On Saturday, an OK golfing day for October, I happened to notice all the golfers stretched out over the course and I noticed in the distance a golfer in a yellow top!!

Yes .. a yellow Nike sports top on a golf course in October!!

The rest looked as if they were wearing their wet suits, dark, somber black, dark greys.

Wilts, I have the opposite problem on the course to you, I rather like the brighter attire but I golfed in very good golfing company and they dressed in golfing jackets, collar and ties to go OUT onto the course but that was back in another life ... times have moved on.

Thank God those days have gone for most of us and we can enjoy a more relaxed code of golfing dress but it would appear that your course/club is still back in the olden days or wish they were ... what was it Henry Ford is reputed to have said 'Any colour as long as it is black'.

Enjoy the freedom of personal clothing choice and as has been referred to 'live and let live' with the emphasis on live!
 
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