Club Issued Sport Coat or Blazer

[Neil Davis]

What clubs in America require their members to purchase a club sport coat or blazer?  Or have them for sale in the shop?  I'm thinking of Augusta, Pine Valley, Cal Club, and LACC.  Any other out there?  Thanks.

[Nick Schreiber]

Caves Valley outside Baltimore has red jackets.

[Gib_Papazian]

If you want the best golf lunch on Earth, bring a blue blazer to Southhampton.


I think the blazer rule in the bar at GCGC still exists . . . . . although one of my friends swears that on a scorching August day many year ago, he stood at the bar in bare feet, skivvies and no shirt . . . . .  except for his coat.


After all, "A rule's a rule."

[Stewart Abramson]

Members of the Pelican Club in Bellaire FL, host of the recent LPGA event, have purple blazers

[Jeff Schley]

If you want the best golf lunch on Earth, bring a blue blazer to Southhampton.


I think the blazer rule in the bar at GCGC still exists . . . . . although one of my friends swears that on a scorching August day many year ago, he stood at the bar in bare feet, skivvies and no shirt . . . . .  except for his coat.


After all, "A rule's a rule."

I was there a couple years ago and my host just had a jacket in fhe clubhouse.  It wasn't a club issued one as they members had various.  I bought one the night before at a local Ross dress for less when I realised I forgot mine at home.


Lovely tradition, quirky .

[David_Tepper]

Are you sure about the Cal Club? I don't think I have ever seen members wearing blazers/sport coats in the clubhouse the half-dozen times I have been there over the past several years.

[Adam Lawrence]

Old Elm is jacket required for lunch and keeps a supply of emergency jackets for guests who don't bring one. Not 'official' club wear though. Thankfully I had my own with me when I was there.

[David_Tepper]

Now that I think of it, I have a vague memory of sport coats being required in Portmarnock clubhouse on my visit there in 1984.

 From the club's current website:

"Jacket is required in the Members’ Bar and the main dining room." 

[Jeff Schley]

Now that I think of it, I have a vague memory of sport coats being required in Portmarnock clubhouse on my visit there in 1984.

 From the club's current website:

"Jacket is required in the Members’ Bar and the main dining room."

David I'm sure not many things are clear from that far back. I'm sure it is all recorded.

[Tom_Doak]

Jackets in the clubhouse for lunch is still fairly common at the nicer clubs in the U.K., isn't it?  I honestly haven't gone into them for lunch very much in the past few years.  I was never very comfortable in a coat and tie, but I didn't mind adhering to that tradition when visiting those places.


But, I don't think I would ever join a club over here that made you wear a coat and tie in the clubhouse.

[Jeff_Brauer]

Jackets in the clubhouse for lunch is still fairly common at the nicer clubs in the U.K., isn't it?  I honestly haven't gone into them for lunch very much in the past few years.  I was never very comfortable in a coat and tie, but I didn't mind adhering to that tradition when visiting those places.


But, I don't think I would ever join a club over here that made you wear a coat and tie in the clubhouse.

Another old school thing I enjoy when I play internationally is the practice of taking off your hat while in the clubhouse.  That seems to be a lost art in the good old US of A.


As to the OP, my only official blazer/sport coat is the ASGCA Ross Tartan jacket, which I only wear to official ASGCA events, and the occasional Christmas party.

[MKrohn]

I don't mind the tradition depending on geography and season.


Since David was back in '84', the same year we were playing Junior (under 18) Pennant at a Sydney club with pretensions of being a little part of England, hence they had instituted a jacket/tie rule.


After the match, you stay for lunch, whilst the kids from the home club all had blazers, my mob was kitted out in oversize suit jackets from relatives and a variety of ties from the 70s that were at best questionable. The powers that be at the club must have deemed us unworthy of using the dining room and shoved us out on a balcony.


Was a "great" Sydney summers day, 40 plus degrees and humidity in the 90s, after 4 hours on the course one of my team mates had a small faint and the we were all ushered out with no lunch.


Any time there is an opportunity to run the club in question down, I'm not proud but I do it anyway.


- been to Cal Club twice, long pants, no jacket.

[Tommy Williamsen]

I have just made it part of my packing to bring a sport coat when I travel. The first time I was at NGLA I was glad I did for the jacket they gave my buddy was plaid and didn't go well with his striped pants. I tend to dress more formally than today's norm so I like eating in a jacket.

[Ira Fishman]

What is the rule at Elie about stretch denim pants? Just curious.


Ira

[Andrew Harvie]

Mount Bruno is the only club in Canada I can think of where it is mandatory for meals (mostly dinner, if I'm remembering correctly), but most of the Greater Toronto clubs have them for their member events (thinking Toronto GC, St. George's).

[Sean_A]

What is the rule at Elie about stretch denim pants? Just curious.

Ira

Stirring the pot.

Ciao

[Thomas Dai]

Curious to see some examples of any that are particularly extravagant or outlandish in design, colour or pattern:)
Atb

[Greg Stebbins]

I believe the St. Andrews (NY) members have a distinct red blazer.  I remember playing in a few events where the club members stood out as they were all wearing them.

[Andrew Harvie]

I believe the St. Andrews (NY) members have a distinct red blazer.  I remember playing in a few events where the club members stood out as they were all wearing them.

+1 for Mount Bruno. Bright red, similar colour to the header of this site

[Adam Lawrence]

Curious to see some examples of any that are particularly extravagant or outlandish in design, colour or pattern:)
Atb

Royal Cinque Ports

[David_Tepper]

RCP blazer pic here:

http://lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.blogspot.com/2012/11/royal-cinque-ports-halford-hewitt-cup.html

[Neil Davis]

Are you sure about the Cal Club? I don't think I have ever seen members wearing blazers/sport coats in the clubhouse the half-dozen times I have been there over the past several years.

I'm certainly not sure, but I thought I recalled hearing on the Fried Egg podcast a few years back about the Cal Club that they had a club jacket.

[Bill Seitz]

Another old school thing I enjoy when I play internationally is the practice of taking off your hat while in the clubhouse.  That seems to be a lost art in the good old US of A.

This is actually probably the only rule we have at my club, aside from traditional dress code stuff.  It's certainly the rule most likely to be enforced by other members.  I now have a hard time walking into a clubhouse anywhere else now, public or private, with my hat on.

[Mark Chaplin]

RCP blazer pic here:

http://lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.blogspot.com/2012/11/royal-cinque-ports-halford-hewitt-cup.html

Any self respecting GCA’er who has visited Royal Cinque Ports within the past 15 years, will know the rather tasteless School blazer worn here by a Halford Hewitt winning team, is nothing like the RCP members jacket!

[Tony_Muldoon]

What is the rule at Elie about stretch denim pants? Just curious.


Ira

You're encouraged to wear them around the town.😎