GB72
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Having read a few of the posts on Smiffy’s thread about polo shirts it really did bring home how absolutely barking the attitude of some clubs are to what is and what is not acceptable golf attire. Rather than hijack that thread, I thought I would start a new one. Let me get the usual point out the way, I know that clubs have rules and if I do not like the rules then I can move on and I accept that and abide by the rules at my club.
If, however, you were a total outsider to the game, how would you look at some of the examples I have seen or heard about:
1. To take the original thread, a shirt displaying quite subtly the name of an F1 team and sponsor is not acceptable but a shirt with same sized logos for a golf brand is. I even suspect that if they had added the word ‘golf’ under the F1 team name it would be OK to some. A shirt showing all of the same logos but made by a golf brand and also showing their logo is also fine.
2. You cannot wear shirts from other sports but I am allowed to wear a Leicester Tigers golf shirt even though it looks similar and has the badge in the same place because it is labled Tigers Golf. I was advised at a previous club that if had not been marked as Tigers Golf then it would be classed as a shirt from another sport and would not be acceptable.
3. Once you get past the non golf related polo shirts, you then get on to specific golf gear. Some of the younger lads have been asked not to wear Bunker Mentality shirts due to the size of logo or other slogans despite this being made and marketed as golf gear. They can, however, wear the ones that have loud patterns and designs but not the plain ones with a larger badge or a slogan on it.
4. I remember when Tiger was wearing collarless golf tops. OK on the PGA or at the Open, sold and marketed as golf gear, banned at golf clubs.
So, where is the line drawn. Should there even be a line a long as the shirt fills the basic criteria of being a polo shirt and does not contain any language or imagery that is offensive. Should clubs just tighten the rules and restrict it to wearing nothing but plain or striped polo shirts with nothing more than a discreet manufacturers logo.
No right or wrong answer to this, the rules at my club state all recognised golf attire to include a fixed collar and sleaves but that in itself does not exclude some items that the club does deem unacceptable so I would be interested to see where people think the line is drawn.
If, however, you were a total outsider to the game, how would you look at some of the examples I have seen or heard about:
1. To take the original thread, a shirt displaying quite subtly the name of an F1 team and sponsor is not acceptable but a shirt with same sized logos for a golf brand is. I even suspect that if they had added the word ‘golf’ under the F1 team name it would be OK to some. A shirt showing all of the same logos but made by a golf brand and also showing their logo is also fine.
2. You cannot wear shirts from other sports but I am allowed to wear a Leicester Tigers golf shirt even though it looks similar and has the badge in the same place because it is labled Tigers Golf. I was advised at a previous club that if had not been marked as Tigers Golf then it would be classed as a shirt from another sport and would not be acceptable.
3. Once you get past the non golf related polo shirts, you then get on to specific golf gear. Some of the younger lads have been asked not to wear Bunker Mentality shirts due to the size of logo or other slogans despite this being made and marketed as golf gear. They can, however, wear the ones that have loud patterns and designs but not the plain ones with a larger badge or a slogan on it.
4. I remember when Tiger was wearing collarless golf tops. OK on the PGA or at the Open, sold and marketed as golf gear, banned at golf clubs.
So, where is the line drawn. Should there even be a line a long as the shirt fills the basic criteria of being a polo shirt and does not contain any language or imagery that is offensive. Should clubs just tighten the rules and restrict it to wearing nothing but plain or striped polo shirts with nothing more than a discreet manufacturers logo.
No right or wrong answer to this, the rules at my club state all recognised golf attire to include a fixed collar and sleaves but that in itself does not exclude some items that the club does deem unacceptable so I would be interested to see where people think the line is drawn.
