Will Manufacturers Drive Dress Code Change in Clubs?

[Oddsocks]

Why are there different rules for women at some clubs?
Nobody bats an eyelid if a female golfer wears a collarless shirt.
Not that they should.

There is definitely two standards in dress codes.

Men,
knee length shorts,
knee lengths socks,
collared polo must have mid sleeves.

Women,
no sleeves,
tennis style short dresses showing as much leg as poss and in some cases a bit of under carriage etc.
Low cut chest

This isn’t stuffy clubs, this is pro tv golf. Old Mavis down the club should not be wearing this skimpy dress showing her pork steaks hanging out the bottom because that’s what the pro girls wear, puts my right off my ham egg and chips!

Actually I do get the ban on cargo shorts, here's what happens;

Try on cargo shorts in shop, these look pretty good, they'd be great for golf
Wear next day for 18, so versatile, go home raving and stick them in the wash to wear for tomorrows round
Next day PP says, Mate, why are you wearing a potato sack with pockets

They just don't survive the intended look beyond their first wear/wash

It all depends on the material. I’ve got a pair of cargos that me and the misses worked out are 14 years old because I purchased them for a specific holiday. Made of a lightweight material that’s a mixture of the polyester that football shorts made of an a nylon cotton. Super light weight, don’t sweat and dont fade.

We’ve decided this autumn they will be put to rest, all forumers welcome to the wake.

 

[D-S]

Yes much more of a game for the working man

I was interested about your comment and checked on a couple of courses I have played north of the border outside the big time Open rota and both had dress codes as strict as most I know down south. For info they are Panmure (jacket and tie in the dining room at all times) and Blairgowrie (no jeans or trainers in the clubhouse and no tailored shorts in the restaurant). Not exactly a game for the working man.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Where is this consensus? I think the majority of people here are saying they don't give two figs what someone wears

Or perhaps those more wanting of changes are speaking the loudest.....
Start a poll,that is only a yes or no with no comments and then you might have a better idea

 

[Alan Clifford]

But we still have a dress code. ... And everyone understands why there is a need for one.

Why is there a need for a dress code?

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Why is there a need for a dress code?

Perhaps the members of that club want one.

 

[Oddsocks]

Why is there a need for a dress code?

To stop the Mohican’s , Jesus Alan ??‍

 

[Alan Clifford]

Perhaps the members of that club want one.

Perhaps it was the "... everyone understands why ..." that I'm querying because I don't understand why.

 

[D-S]

Why is there a need for a dress code?

To prevent members and visitors wearing what they think is appropriate.
At times I wonder how most restaurants remain in business without strictly enforced, detailed dress codes, it must be like the last days of Caligula in most of them.
I am sure without a published dress code most of our Senior section would go for the shirtless, shoeless, pink Mohican look almost immediately.

 

[Backache]

I don't mind Mohicans but I don't remember the last time I saw one, must have been years ago.
I can't recall any dress code or other code specifying hair style in a golf club. Or visibility of tattoos etc come to that

Does anyone know of any?

 

[GB72]

I don't mind Mohicans but I don't remember the last time I saw one, must have been years ago.
I can't recall any dress code or other code specifying hair style in a golf club. Or visibility of tattoos etc come to that

Does anyone know of any?

I know someone who got a tattoo in his youth that is not, shall we say, suitable for a family audience and he had been asked if it could be covered in the club house.

 

[GB72]

I know someone who got a tattoo in his youth that is not, shall we say, suitable for a family audience and he had been asked if it could be covered in the club house.

Just to add, I am fine with that, as was he. In the same way that I would expect someone wearing a clearly offensive t-shirt would be at least asked not to wear it again (please note I agree with prohibiting wearing the clothing because it is offensive, not because it is a t-shirt. Without dress codes, common sense stilll applies. That said, I am not sure that I whether the dress code at my old club specified that you could not wear offenisve golf shirts, need to check).

 

[Mandofred]

Cargo shorts are perfect for golf, scorecard straight in one of the big pcokets on the hip, room for the glove when you're putting in the other side. No more walking round the golf course with the liner of your rear pocket hanging out, looking like you need an adult to help you get dressed on a morning.

I agree....but I don't really want to see this either....

 

[D-S]

I agree....but I don't really want to see this either....

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The guy in the vest seems dressed appropriately for the 'course' he's playing.

 

[Mandofred]

I'm pretty sure the first guy is just looking for beer.....so fair enough.

 

[Mandofred]

But then again.....the guy on the left in this photo is me playing pasture golf in Ellensburg WA.

I think the clubs I have are literally in a POCKET of my cargo shorts.....so a big thumbs up for cargo shorts

 

[Brads]

I’d wear those dungarees.
Golf is redneck anyway.
I like my golf clothes but did see a lad playing in a Fila tracksuit with slim fit legs and a hood
It looked really smart to be honest.
If I was 30 yrs younger I’d be wearing it.

 

[D-S]

Seen yesterday at the Scottish Open

https://twitter.com/x/status/1552662107434487808

 

[theoneandonly]

And you consider my contribution to be fatuous? Your reply amounted to one word. One. I would have to be either a mind reader or your best friend to differentiate between that being an attack by you on me or my post. Thankfully I am neither. As it happens, whether you believe me or my response to be pathetic, it amounts to the same thing - an attack on me as an individual.



Then why have you spent the best part of the last 24 hours trying to do just that?



And guess what? I still haven’t read them. And neither will I, for reasons I have set out in plain English, more than once. It is not me who is struggling to interpret the written word here, clearly.

I said way up this particular thread that I disagree with denim jeans on the golf course. And I then explained why - my view being that, if you allow denim jeans on the course, it will not stop there. I illustrated that point by saying if you allow denims, ripped denims, string vests and pink Mohicans will follow. I said that to try and illustrate a point with humour. Perhaps I shouldn’t have bothered, this particular thread being littered with contributors who wouldn’t recognise humour if it leapt up and smacked them between the eyes. Do I expect to see string vests and pink Mohicans on the golf course? No, of course not. Ripped denims I’m really not so sure.

The fact is that standards breed behaviour. You see it in all walks of life. I’ve certainly seen it throughout my working life, both within the organisation I worked for, and beyond. If you have no rules whatsoever, you cannot then intervene when behaviour dips below an acceptable level. That’s precisely why so many golf clubs maintain dress codes. To maintain some sort of standard of behaviour on and off the course.

Your response, as I recall, was to the effect that what people wear on the course has no impact whatsoever on their behaviour on and off it. I believe that to be naive, and said so.

And that is what this is all about. You have taken umbrage at being called naive, and have been like a dog with a bone ever since. You have repeatedly come back at me, asking me to address your points, and I have declined to do so, setting out in very clear terms why I will not engage further in this debate with you as an individual.

Get over it, try and have at least a stab at understanding what I am saying to you, and move on.

Just sounds like a whole load of prejudice.

 

[Voyager EMH]

I agree....but I don't really want to see this either....

Utterly hideous brown trousers. Nice gold top, though.

 

[patricks148]

I was interested about your comment and checked on a couple of courses I have played north of the border outside the big time Open rota and both had dress codes as strict as most I know down south. For info they are Panmure (jacket and tie in the dining room at all times) and Blairgowrie (no jeans or trainers in the clubhouse and no tailored shorts in the restaurant). Not exactly a game for the working man.

Of course there are places with dress codes, but both your examples are not on the course..western you have to arrive wearing jacket and tie, Ellie you still have to wear long socks with shorts, but on the whole clubs up here are far less strict on dress codes. I think my club is prob the only club in the area that doesn't allow jeans, but pretty muck ever other one does.