Will Manufacturers Drive Dress Code Change in Clubs?

[Crazyface]

Were socks mentioned?

Yup they certainly were

 

[Crazyface]

Well, we had ours re-tarmaced and new spaces marked out a few years ago. And if you are a visitor coming to a club, first impressions can count. And even a nice clean car park helps in that.

I rest my case m'laud.
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[Deleted member 29109]

All fine. Only the prejudiced or snobs would have any issue playing along side those natty looks.

I’d rather just play with the top two than the clown in the gold.

 

[sunshine]

Can’t help feel that if Galvin Green brought out some denim “golf” trousers called Derek or Keith, with a £200 price tag, we’d see middle age men wearing them at private clubs across the land.

 

[GB72]

Would be an interesting experiment if a company took an ordinary pair of Levi's and marketed them as golf jeans through a recognised golf brand and see what happens

 

[Imurg]

Would be an interesting experiment if a company took an ordinary pair of Levi's and marketed them as golf jeans through a recognised golf brand and see what happens

Now you've done it......

 

[IanM]

Would be an interesting experiment if a company took an ordinary pair of Levi's and marketed them as golf jeans through a recognised golf brand and see what happens

Would they be light weight and water run off them? If so, I'd give them a go

 

[evemccc]

Apparel manufacturers are always looking to push mainstream clothing trends into golf. They need the pros to wear it on tv to normalise it and create the desire to purchase it.

Junior open at my club last October and almost every participant was wearing a hoodie. Sometimes it takes a few years for acceptance but it’s inevitable.

1) Apparel manufacturers are always looking to make money, and creating needs/fads/fashions etc

2) Which says everything about how susceptible to marketing and fashion/fads, and sheeplike people - especially teenage kids - are

I don’t disagree about normalisation, but I think that in about 2/3 years there will be another fad/fashion that supersedes golf hoodies

 

[BrianM]

I’m away for 9 holes shortly, I‘ve only got trainers as I’ve left my golf shoes at home.
Im doubtful if anyone will say a word ?
As long as you’re comfortable and adhering to whatever club you play at‘s dress code it shouldn’t be a problem.

 

[Backache]

Must admit the rule of changing shoes in car parks is one that really irritates me.
Fortunately we don't have it. I couldn't believe it first time I came across it when I was reprimanded by my in laws (in a friendly fashion) at their club.

 

[RichA]

1) Apparel manufacturers are always looking to make money, and creating needs/fads/fashions etc

2) Which says everything about how susceptible to marketing and fashion/fads, and sheeplike people - especially teenage kids - are

I don’t disagree about normalisation, but I think that in about 2/3 years there will be another fad/fashion that supersedes golf hoodies

Yeah. Stupid kids. We adult golfers are way too smart to fall for clever marketing. Fortunate that the golf industry isn't such a cynical marketing machine. This year's clubs and shirts are clearly much better than last year's.
And you'd never catch us wearing the same clothes as each other.

 

[Grizzly]

No such thing as smart joggers

Untrue. I occasionally do a parkrun with an Emeritus Professor from Imperial College London ?

 

[Robster59]

Must admit the rule of changing shoes in car parks is one that really irritates me.
Fortunately we don't have it. I couldn't believe it first time I came across it when I was reprimanded by my in laws (in a friendly fashion) at their club.

I refer you to my earlier post for a practical reason why it's frowned upon.

 

[Backache]

I refer you to my earlier post for a practical reason why it's frowned upon.

People have to remove the mud from their shoes somewhere . I don't think it should be beyond the wit of a golf club committee to provide the means to do so before getting to the car park rather than at the door of the changing room.

If I'm visiting a club it is of rather less practical importance but at my own it would be a significant irritant. I often am arriving on a very tight schedule after work and going to the changing room to change shoes adds on several minutes. Furthermore in the summer rounds are sometimes finished late when access to the club house is not available so my shoes would be locked in if I finished later than planned.

Although the requirements for Covid are no longer a reqauirement for some people with conditions that make them susceptible to infection enforcing a move to the club house for them to change at times when infwctions are prevalent is inadviseable and changing in the car park a better option.

I think in general there is as much mud and grass on trolleys as shoes and these are not usually taken to the club house . We have a station for removing mud before arrival at the car park. The car park is not noticeably dirty .

 

[theoneandonly]

People have to remove the mud from their shoes somewhere . I don't think it should be beyond the wit of a golf club committee to provide the means to do so before getting to the car park rather than at the door of the changing room.

If I'm visiting a club it is of rather less practical importance but at my own it would be a significant irritant. I often am arriving on a very tight schedule after work and going to the changing room to change shoes adds on several minutes. Furthermore in the summer rounds are sometimes finished late when access to the club house is not available so my shoes would be locked in if I finished later than planned.

Although the requirements for Covid are no longer a reqauirement for some people with conditions that make them susceptible to infection enforcing a move to the club house for them to change at times when infwctions are prevalent is inadviseable and changing in the car park a better option.

I think in general there is as much mud and grass on trolleys as shoes and these are not usually taken to the club house . We have a station for removing mud before arrival at the car park. The car park is not noticeably dirty .

I think it's just another one of those things that no one really knows why buts that's how we've always done it.?

 

[Imurg]

I think changing shoes only in the locker room is a ruse by clubs to get shoes left behind so they can sell them on ebay for a few quid...every little helps..

 

[Voyager EMH]

It is decades since my club did away with the no-changing-shoes-in-the-carpark. Back then, on arrival, I would walk out of the carpark on to the road so that I was beyond the club's jurisdiction, change into my clean golf shoes and walk back. When someone said to me, "Why don't you change your shoes sitting in your car like I do?" My reply was, "Well, that doesn't quite make the same same statement, does it?"
After the game it would be the same process of going out to the road to change shoes.
My behaviour was ridiculous, but then so was the club rule.
Both were stopped with some reasonable thinking.
Reasonable thinking is what is needed with regard to dress codes at golf clubs.
There isn't much of it about, sadly.

 

[D-S]

My club did away with the changing in the car park rule a few years ago. It made no difference at all to the state of the car park (stopping people taking their trolleys to their cars shedding grass would have a far bigger effect but would be totally impractical, even golfers waling across a tarmac car park in grass clogged shoes makes a mess). In essence it reduced opportunity for officious members to tell other members and visitors off, thereby, sometimes, give the club a reputation for pettyness.

 

[woofers]

I once bought a collarless golf shirt from our pro shop and the club secretary wouldn’t allow me to wear it on the course. It was from a golf specific range, too. Work that one out.

I know of a lady who bought an item from the Pro Shop of an exclusive golf club (some members on here) a couple of years ago, and it has a hoodie attachment. This year she has been told she can’t wear it on the course. In this instance, I believe it’s the club owner who has made the ruling.

 

[Orikoru]

I think our club has a rule about not changing shoes in the car park - because the captain sent a reminder about it several months back. I always change my shoes in the car park regardless and nobody has directly spoke to me about it yet. If they did I'd ask for a valid reason why, and then also ask what would be the point of me walking from my car to the changing rooms, changing my shoes, and then having to walk back to my car again to put my shoes back in the boot. Utter waste of time and energy.

In summer it's not an issue, I wear summer shoes and I can drive in them so no shoe changing takes place.