Jacket and Tie nonsense !!!

[User101]

My club are playing St Andrews New next week and a Jacket and Tie is required afterwards, even had to go out and buy a shirt for it are there many stuffy old clubs still carrying on this nonsense ??

 

[Deleted member 15344]

There are plenty that will ask you to wear jacket and tie for numerous occasions.

 

[User101]

For a presentation dinner I'd say fair enough, but for a midweek friendly match in March.

 

[HankMarvin]

Yes all our club matches require the players to wear jacket and tie, small sacrifice to make to play great courses and good Scran :cheers:

 

[Rlburnside]

Good job you're not going on a forum meet cos some of them are collar and tie :thup:

 

[stevek1969]

The small price to pay for playing a club match , only need in the season games not the winter league matches.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

As far as I am concerned, if a course I am visiting requires a jacket and tie, I will wear a jacket and tie.

Did so on Friday at Ashridge and will do again in a few days time at The Berkshire

It’s about respecting the wishes of the club members.

It’s obviously easier if it is not required, but I don’t have a problem with it.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Outdated nonsense but if the club you are playing at insists then you either suck it up or don't play there.

 

[Captainron]

Not an issue to wear a jacket and tie. If the club has its rules, I will oblige.

I like the tradition and you find it’s usually the better courses which require this. Adds to the occasion

 

[chrisd]

Most of our vets league matches have become brunch before and smart casual after - much better that collar and tie with speeches etc

 

[Lwatson-jones]

I quite like the tradition of a jacket and tie for dinner.
so any club that I have visited that requests one for dinner following a match, i ahave been happy to oblige

Don't see what the fuss is about. you would not go to a dinner 'date' in jeans and a t shirt, so why is it even an issue to dress for an occasion?

 

[User101]

so why is it even an issue to dress for an occasion?

No great issue, as I said, I bought a new shirt for the occasion, it just seems all a bit outdated to me. I think we play about 15 clubs in the league/friendlies and only 3 require it.

 

[Jamesbrown]

Something that will eventually die out with the old guard.
My club has scrapped it altogether for anything. Though we are a young bunch with several under 30 on the committee and a no nonsense approach.
I still get emails from my old club and their prensentation evenings are now casual. Used to be jacket and tie, so I never went.

 

[Lwatson-jones]

No great issue, as I said, I bought a new shirt for the occasion, it just seems all a bit outdated to me. I think we play about 15 clubs in the league/friendlies and only 3 require it.

So wear it 3 times, and not wear it 12 times? I still am yet to see the issue?
or wear it 12 times and not 3 times, and be seen as someone that has etiquette and a modicum of class?

 

[HankMarvin]

No great issue, as I said, I bought a new shirt for the occasion, it just seems all a bit outdated to me. I think we play about 15 clubs in the league/friendlies and only 3 require it.

Remember to wash it inbetween matches.

Do you have the old sports jacket with elbow patches (Jack Frost) style

 

[User101]

Remember to wash it inbetween matches.

Do you have the old sports jacket with elbow patches (Jack Frost) style

Smoking jacket

 

[HankMarvin]

Smoking jacket

Mare like a straight jacket.....

 

[williamalex1]

Smoking jacket

A Blazer.:smirk:

 

[FairwayDodger]

A total anachronism that just feeds golf's fuddy-duddy image.

 

[IanM]

Life’s easier without it, but I respect the traditions of my host... golf club or otherwise

I played in a Society in 2016 when after a rain soaked afternoon round, several folk just took off their spikes and went into dinner! Nice. Clearly that’s not the alternative, but really?