They're free to have any rules they want, that doesn't mean we cannot question the logic of it. If they said nobody is allowed to wear blue because they see it as disrespectful it would be seen as weird and quirky. That's how I see the hood issue as well. It's the same as the sock debate - how anyone ever felt the need to mandate the colour and height of people's socks is well and truly beyond me.
Then if they are free to have any rules they want, why is it our right to question it? Surely that’s down to their members.
Great lets just all be nodding dogs!
Start a petition.
I understand your point of view.
I have never heard or read it used in the context of whether clothing is clean or dirty, only ever in regards to the type of clothing. This whole thread is about Hatton wearing a hoodie - not dirty clothes.
When something is held to a standard, it usually means within a particular subject, eg health standards, playing standards, etc. So if someone was talking about food at a particular restaurant and said that standards were dropping, that would mean the food was not as good as before.
Hatton's hoodie was fine. It looked quite smart, if he wants a hood flapping behind him, that's up to him and so what? Dress codes in are golf fine, if you don't like any particular club's policy don't go there. Play somewhere else. If they go out of business because they specify sock colours, that's their look out. There are plenty of clubs that don't!
"Golf isn't stuffy" - some places might be, but plenty are nothing of the sort. Love the way some golfers want to fall in with the BBC/Press image of golf... i.e Tarby and Brucie circa 1978
Clubs go out of business, not because of dress codes, it is because they don't offer a competitive product. Eg local to me - Newport, pretty traditional - is full and has a joining fee. Dewstow? Closed. Alice Springs? Closed. Both used to be wear what you like and £20 a round, but not now, they are farmland.
I was wondering about how folk objecting to dress codes dress for weddings, or if invited for corporate hospitality at sport? I went in a box at Spurs and Arsenal and was advised it was jacket and tie. Would have been rude to my hosts not to have done. Is football stuffy? Are weddings stuffy? Hardly.
....anyone dig their garden in a dinner suit? No? Why is that?
Are these just a tool to oppress the working class and keep them out of golf?
Hatton's hoodie was fine. It looked quite smart, if he wants a hood flapping behind him, that's up to him and so what? Dress codes in golf are fine, if you don't like any particular club's policy don't go there. Play somewhere else. If they go out of business because they specify sock colours, that's their look out. There are plenty of clubs that don't!
"Golf isn't stuffy" - some places might be, but plenty are nothing of the sort. Love the way some golfers want to fall in with the BBC/Press image of golf... i.e Tarby and Brucie circa 1978
Clubs go out of business, not because of dress codes, it is because they don't offer a competitive product. Eg local to me - Newport, pretty traditional - is full and has a joining fee. Dewstow? Closed. Alice Springs? Closed. Both used to be “wear what you like” and £20 a round, but not now, they are farmland.
I was wondering about how folk objecting to dress codes, dress for weddings, or if invited for corporate hospitality at sport? I went in a box at Spurs and Arsenal and was advised it was jacket and tie. Would have been rude to my hosts not to have done. Is football stuffy? Are weddings stuffy? Hardly.
....anyone dig their garden in a dinner suit? No? Why is that?
It's a shame he is already back in the US. Otherwise I wonder whether the Adidas PR team would have contemplated that? How much publicity would they have got from that?
