The Best (and Worst) Dressed Guys on the PGA Tour!
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The PGA Tour has featured smartly dressed players since the start of the Tour. Walter Hagan, Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones, Gary Player, and Dave Marr, just to name a few. Dave Marr was named the best-dressed player on Tour several years in a row. Today, the fashion is a little bit more “in your face” with John Daly’s Loudmouth pants and Rickie Fowler’s Oranges and Yellows, but for the most part, I think PGA (and LPGA for that matter) players are smartly dressed. This is something that many amateurs can learn from, based on what I see every day on the golf course!
I have always taken my cue from Gary Player, and to this day, I button up the top button on my shirt. It all started when I played in a tournament with my very good friend Simon Hobday, nicknamed “Scruffy,” for a good reason. His shirt was hanging out, his shoes were untied, and my dad said to me, “Look at Gary Player and how smart he looks. Don’t end up looking like Simon.” I have tried to be professional in my dress code ever since. But I still would hate to see Scruffy ever change!
Bryson DeChambeau
Not many amateurs have signature looks, but Bryson’s, cultivated as a junior and college golfer, has become quickly recognizable. This pink Hogan cap/camo sweater he wore last week in Qatar is an interesting mix of classic and contemporary style that DeChambeau owns from head to toe.
John Daly
We’ll give JD license to wear whatever Loudmouth looks he likes with the caveat that the clothes should fit regardless of the color. The windbreaker here, however, is so long it looks like he’s wearing a moo moo.
Aaron Baddeley
Glad to see Badds break out some color at Torrey Pines when the weather went south on Sunday. Given there’s plenty of colorful foul-weather gear in all sorts of other sports, I’ve always been confused at the sea of black and navy that dominates any wet-weather day on tour.
My Baby’s Got New Shoes – New Golf shoes, that is!
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There’s no question that women are passionate about new shoes, golf, and otherwise.
Being male, I will not weigh in on styles or colors, but I recommend you buy lightweight and flexible shoes for all-day comfort. Water-resistant buying shoes is also a good idea for rainy day rounds. Prices can range from $29 to over $200 for high-end brands.
Smart Ladies Golf Shoes from Calloway.
See the wide range of colors and styles offered on the Zappos website.
Latest Fashion Trends at the 2015 PGA Merchandise Show.
Golf Chats is a website to encourage discussions on various subjects relating to the game of golf. I am Mel Sole, Director of Instruction of the Mel Sole Golf School and SAPGA Master Professional. I invite you to enter into a discussion on this or any article on the golfchats.com website. The input is for the entire subscriber base to learn something new each time! Please post your comments below. Keep it clean and tasteful. We are here to learn from one another!
Bring the market leaders of golf clothing and accessories together at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL, for the 2015 PGA Merchandise Show, with new designers, in one place, and you’ve got an exciting event!
The huge exhibition of new clothing styles for all ages, footwear, hats, accessories, etc., was fantastic.
Give Brittany Rayburn the assignment to report on all of this, and it seems like you were there in person! I was.
At this year’s PGA Merchandise Show, approximately 1,000 leading companies and attendees from all around the world have gathered together to check out the latest golf apparel, accessories and equipment! Golf Channel has been providing “Morning Drive” coverage that airs from 8:30-11:30 am. To begin the show, Bubba Watson officially welcomed all attendees to open the PGA Show from the Main Lobby, while PGA President Derek Sprague as well as thousands of other attendees watched. PGA Professional, Tara McKenna, of Fort Myers, Florida, states, “The first day of the PGA Show has been exciting, fun and very crowded. It’s busy, busy, busy.
For those in the golf industry, this is like Christmas morning.” McKenna has attended every single PGA Show since 1991! Additionally, panelists brought PGA Show attendees up to speed in regards to the 2016 Olympic Games! It has been approximately 111 years since golf was last apart of the Olympic Games, but it will soon be returning once the golf course is finished being constructed. The 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil are closely approaching, and a panel met yesterday morning on the PGA Forum Stage b OMEGA in order to discuss how close the golf course is to being fully constructed, as well as the excitement for potential Olympic golfers.
Peter Dawson, President of the International Golf Federation, Ty Votaw, VP of the IGF, LPGA Tour player Suzann Pettersen, PGA Tour player Graeme McDowell, former LPGA Tour player Amy Alcott and Gil Hanse, President of Hanse Golf Course Design, made up the panel.
Dawson states, “Golf in the Olympics is the biggest grow-the-game opportunity we have. The growth of the game is worldwide. Golf in the Olympics will lead to extra exposure and extra government support for the game.” Bubba Watson also presented to the attendees about how he works the golf ball just like he did in Augusta, his social media usage as well as what it is like to win the Masters.
When describing the setting of the Champions Dinner at Augusta, he states, “Whether you’re 92 or 35, like I was, when you have the green jacket on you’re 12 years old. When we wear the green jacket it turns us all into kids. It’s great to see because it reminds me of why I play golf.” In addition to enjoying the game of golf, Watson also thrives on “doing weird stuff on social media.” In regards to this, he states, “If it’s the golf course, baseball field, football field or the doctor’s office, it’s tough to really see who a person is. Social media is a way to interact with fans and show them who I am as a person.” In closing, Watson took questions from the audience! The PGA Merchandise Show will be held until January 23rd in Orlando, Florida!
Sun Protection you can wear – Fashion combos for Men and Women!
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How would you like to combine these three categories?
1. Sun Protection.
2. Fashion.
3. Golf.
Before slathering on sunscreen by the pool or on the golf course. Consider this — another study suggests you could be injecting chemicals into your body.
For the second time this year, researchers at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have released a study showing that many popular sunscreen products release chemicals into the body through the skin at levels beyond what the agency considers healthy.
The FDA gets concerned if ingredients are found in the bloodstream at a level of 0.5 nanograms per milliliter or higher. At that level, the FDA says chemicals need to undergo rigorous analysis to ensure they don’t have harmful health risks.
In its most recent study released this week, the FDA said six chemicals found in sunscreen products were found at levels ranging from 3.3 to 258.1 per milliliter, depending on the product and how it was applied.
Earlier this year, the FDA released a study that found sunscreen chemicals could enter the body after just one day’s use and were at much higher levels than recommended. The agency analyzed four off-the-shelf sunscreen products and found that they “resulted in plasma concentrations that exceeded the threshold established by the FDA for potentially waiving some nonclinical toxicology studies for sunscreens.”
Both FDA studies focused on six chemicals commonly found in over-the-counter sunscreen products — avobenzone, oxybenzone, octocrylene, homosalate, octisalate, and octinoxate. The agency said previous research has identified those chemicals as having potential health risks, but it concedes that the findings were not conclusive.
