Why did golf lose the PR game?

[JESII]

If ankle socks are gay...I guess that makes Capri pants Transvestite. It would take a bigger man than me to show up in a pair of Capants.

Brent,

Don't duck the real issue here...do you have any pictures of these ankle socks rolled down "so they don't look too gay"? Anyone...anyone...

[Brent Hutto]

If any such pictures of my socks existed, they would have been immediately destroyed.

Right now I've got the worst of both worlds. I'm sitting in my office with black ankle socks and white running shoes   in preparation for leaving after lunch to go play golf in black Ecco golf shoes.

That little raised part behind the Achilles Heel means I have to leave them unrolled or else risk a blister. What a world, what a world.

[John Kavanaugh]

Looks like the Capant is going mainstream.  My only problem is that these stores never carry a 42 inch waist.

http://72.166.46.24/archive/features/00/07/27/URBAN_BUY.html

[Brent Hutto]

Would this guy be allowed to play at Victoria National?

I'm not sure what the guys in the pro shop at my club would say if he walked in. Probably swallow their tobacco and choke.

[PThomas]

Would this guy be allowed to play at Victoria National?

I'm not sure what the guys in the pro shop at my club would say if he walked in. Probably swallow their tobacco and choke.

those came out a few years ago and my intitial and still current reaction is a resounding NO!!!!!!!!!!!!

[John Kavanaugh]

Would this guy be allowed to play at Victoria National?

I'm not sure what the guys in the pro shop at my club would say if he walked in. Probably swallow their tobacco and choke.

I think we have a shirt tuck rule but I can't swear by it.  I prefer that look to the Tommy Bahama button down shirt that is difficult to tuck.  I have to admit that that guy looks like he has some game.

[George Pazin]

John, regardless of whether you believe it or not, the looks have a great deal to do with envy. Maybe a little of it is laughing at your fashion sense, but most is not.

It's not for nothing that envy is one of the 7 deadly sins.

[John Kavanaugh]

I might go so far to say that dress codes that would deny access for a clean looking fine young man like shown above may explain why we have lost the PR game.

[JESII]

My only problem is that these stores never carry a 42 inch waist....

A greatly appreciated demonstration of the right to choose your customer...

[tlavin]

Would this guy be allowed to play at Victoria National?

I'm not sure what the guys in the pro shop at my club would say if he walked in. Probably swallow their tobacco and choke.

I think we have a shirt tuck rule but I can't swear by it.  I prefer that look to the Tommy Bahama button down shirt that is difficult to tuck.  I have to admit that that guy looks like he has some game.

This guy looks like the Jude Law character in The Talented Mr. Ripley.  I don't know if you saw the movie, but he met a very uncomfortable demise, despite looking smashing in every scene...

[KBanks]

John,

Martha Burk, for her part, disagrees with your basic premise here.

Ken

[Matthew Hunt]

How to spot a golf:

Right hand mor tanned than left hand (Golf Glove)

[Jim_Kennedy]

Matt,
That's how you spot the right handed golfers.

[Doug Siebert]

So maybe the fact I don't wear a golf glove and wear sneakers as golf shoes makes it harder for people to tell when I'm coming/going from the course...

But despite that I still get asked by people who know I play if I played earlier that day or will play later or tomorrow or whatever constantly in the spring when the weather's not solidly good or during the summer after a bout of rainy weather.  If I played as often as I get asked about it I'd probably be scratch!

But I get asked this by people who have jobs that would prevent them from taking an afternoon off in the middle of the week and those who could do it easily in about equal proportion.

[John_Cullum]

A recent fashion faux pas has developed with players not wearing sun screen on their face but always wearing a cap. They develop a two tone head (especially the balding, short haired guys) with a line from the center of the back of the head, just over the ears, and running just below the eyes. They seem quite proud of it as it  identifies them as a serious golfer. I expect quite a few of the bombsquad guys look like this.

It's similar to guys who fish a lot developing the sunglass lines and raccoon eyes. They work at achieving this look.

[Doug Siebert]

I've got a friend who plays often who is one of those "I'm balding and I'm only 30 so I'm just going to shave my damn head" guys.

So not only does he have that weird cap tan thing going, but he's got an extra little tan area on the back of his head created by the area above the strap on the back of the cap.

[Mike Hendren]

This might get me suspended from The Hillbilly Tour, but I pioneered the Capants back in 1979 at the Lambda Chi house at Tennessee.  Needing a garment that would survive the inch or so of "party scum" that accumulated during beer busts and band parties, I had my grandmother make a pair of  shorter pants (waders) out of orange terricloth, with a draw-string waste to boot.  They were the daddy.

Mike

[John Kavanaugh]

If you guys don't think being golfers has an impact on your image in the workplace I think you are being naive.  On the very week I started this thread I visited a new location where I am in charge of whatever the hell they are supposed to be doing over there.  An employee who now has been working for me for less than three months looks outside and says "Well I guess you will be going out to play golf when you are done here."  Obviously it went downhill from there.

[Rich Goodale]

John

Golf was a loser from day 1 when James IV told the wee bocles who made up his "Army" to get off the links and start laying asphalt so he could walk to his mistress's house without getting his culottes dirty.  That was 1457.  It's guys like you that are trying (hopelessly) to give this silly game some undeserved respect.

Rich

[John_Cullum]

If you guys don't think being golfers has an impact on your image in the workplace I think you are being naive.  On the very week I started this thread I visited a new location where I am in charge of whatever the hell they are supposed to be doing over there.  An employee who now has been working for me for less than three months looks outside and says "Well I guess you will be going out to play golf when you are done here."  Obviously it went downhill from there.

So--Was he right?

All of my regular check cashing and payday loan customers ask me about my golf game, along with the ladies at the bank.

[John Kavanaugh]

Well it was a nice day.  Just because a sterotype is correct doesn't make it right.  

[Kalen Braley]

Well it was a nice day.  Just because a sterotype is correct doesn't make it right.  

Damn the truth hurts don't it...  

[Pat Brockwell]

I find this thread way off the mark. I have made a living all of my life at a playground, in both the ski industry as an instructor and on the golf course as a superintendent and all of the jobs leading up to it, about 35 years each in season. Anyone who can keep their priorities and enjoy life while they earn a living, or spend a windfall, deserves admiration. Wear your recreational prowess as a badge of honor and pity those who would think less of you, they are sad souls indeed.  

[Tim MacEachern]

Yes, enjoy it while you can.  I played a game two years ago with a guy from another club.  A social inter-club match type of thing (may they long live).  I had played with him and his regular partner the previous year.  Asked him where his partner from the year before was...

The answer was that he had a stroke and was slowly recovering but may never be well enough to play golf again.  At 53.

Don't wait until you're retired to enjoy yourself.  'Cause not all of us are going to make it.

Oh, and none of you care, but to try to minimize this, have your daily low-dose aspirin, get your blood pressure checked, drink lots of water on hot or dry days, and cut down as much on the sodium as you can.