Collar or roundneck

Hi Guys and girls,

There is a rule at most golf clubs throughtout the world that will not allow golfers to play unless there is a collar on there shirt.


I am interested to know should this rule be banned.



Ian.

I think at a private club, they can set the dress code however they like.

If you're a public course, looking for public dollars, to some degree you have to accept public dress.

I've played plenty-a-around in a tee shirt and jeans at my local course, but when I travel, I've always got khakis and a golf shirt ready to go (in case someone balks at my tee shirt).

And I wear a fedora, regardless.

I played at a private club last summer and the starter asked me to tuck in my golf shirt!
So I did.
I guess it maintains some decorum. In the same way that strip clubs won't let you in with a hat on!

I dislike jeans and T shirts and think they should be banned from golf. If I am unlucky enough to encounter some such I think they have strayed from a building site. O.K, so I am a snob.

Golf being a gentelmen's games for 100's of years has created a "this really is the way it is" sort of style. Having changes to popular dress codes is fine as long as it maintains the generally approved "Gentlemen's code" be it collared shirts, shirts tucked in, pants that have regulated hights, proper shoes...etc. Clubs that force this rule are entirely in their right. Banning this "rule" is like asking a woman to be allowed to be a member of Agusta, you open up the old school clan and that just ain't hapenning.

Out on the course and hundreds of yards between the groups, I don't see a problem. BUT...
Back at the club house it's a different thing altogether.
Try showing up without a t-time in a Harley Davidson t-shirt with blue jeans and you're not likely to get on."sorry, sir, we're all booked up today". Try it waring a collared shirt and slacks and they'll usually find a spot for you. At the 19th Hole after the round, good service could be a problem. Chit Chat with the other groups and you may find a cold reception. Rules or not, Eticit (sp?) should apply on and off the course. You would'nt ware a tux to a nude beach! Cover-alls to a wedding!
IMHO

Keith

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'Times are changen'.

Attitudes and dress standards/styles have changed considerably over the years.

Nowadays most men on tour wear collarless tops and women (one's with good figures) wear stylish clothes. They market themselves and the game quite well.

The older 'school' need to be more tolerant. Golf appeals to a broader audience and has a wide range of participants from all walks of like competing.

So long as it is neat/smart dress, I'm for it.

I suppose change is a non-stopable thing. Thank god by the time I started playing I didn't have to wear a shirt and tie, like they did in Jones day. If I have a complaint on dress it would the shoes, here at my course they have made soft spikes mandatory, I really miss the sound of them metal spikes on pavement walking to clubhouse, and the traction they provided. You do have to draw a line somewhere, I would think collared shirts is not a great deal to ask, be happy at least I'm not wearing my plaid pants anymore.

I agree only on the last point, plaid pants...those are something the dog had his business on.

But keeping things light here having a fun thread, the shirt and tie...I liked. You tucked in the tie so it didn't hang down and swing all around (but one of my drills I teach in puttung, is to hang a string from the nose to keep the head still letting you see it sway if you do), but asside from that why I like it is that the style was very classy in that day. You were seen as a status symbol...so walking on a golf course being in that tie and knickers in that class surely must have felt wonderful. All this is gone now having the game so overpopulated...oh well.

Soft Spikes are very necessary. The tour pros are allowed to wear them because they know how to walk in them without dragging their feet across the green creating a misical score sheet to the hole. The grip you loose to them is negligable. Some can argue this point more and I will conceed the slight benifit of playability, but you would HAVE to concee the absolute descruction they gave to greens in the hands (or feet) of the masses of amatures.

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Guys wearing jeans, trainers,& t shirts are most likely the ones you hear shouting IN DA HOLE, YOU DA MAN, especially with a few sherberts under their belt.

Only in America

Hey what's wrong with coveralls at my wedding. They were my best pair!

I'm so used to wearing a collared shirt that it is just habit now.

Back when I was a kid my Dad had to buy me a shirt in the proshop one time because I didn't have one on and it wasn't a super nice course or anything.


What they need to ban is, the guys that still wear their collar turned up. That was the look what.....back in the late 70's!!!

Plus it looks less "gentlemany" to me than a nice looking non-collared shirt.


Ricky

I like to golf confertable (jeans and t-shirt)when I practice, the only time I dress khakis and tucked in is for a tournement. If I go to practice by myself and end up in a threesome with some business guys dressed up, you can see their attitudes towards me change (like aww man, this kid is going to slow us way down)...... untill I smack that first tee off strait 280yds. I love the look on their face after that.

It doesn't really bother me either way, I am comfortable in a t-shirt but I wear collars all day at work. Just as long as I'm playing golf it doesn't matter what you have on.

When I'm out during the week with friends, it's usually T shirt and jeans. But , when we visit other golf courses, it's usually collared shirt and trousers (pants for the americans). Turned up at one golf course in jeans and was told " We don't allow them on the course, but it's ok in the clubhouse!!!" Took me ten minutes to borrow a pair of trousers off a mate and put them over the top of my jeans ( It was winter). But I would say 'if jeans are acceptable in the clubhouse,,, then why not on the course ???

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