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Fashion Inspires Fairway Fauna – Women’s Golf Style Gets Wild
The plethora of awesome animal prints appearing on golf bags this Spring is a trend that's moved from fashion runways to country club fairways with with the stealth of a mountain lion.The Spring/Summer 2012 collections presented by top designers last f...
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Fashion Inspires Fairway Fauna – Women’s Golf Style Gets Wild
The plethora of awesome animal prints appearing on golf bags this Spring is a trend that's moved from fashion runways to country club fairways with with the stealth of a mountain lion.The Spring/Summer 2012 collections presented by top designers last f...
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Multi-tasking Golf Fashion Innovation: Skirt + Tight = Skite
Skirt + Tight = SkiteIt's a simple concept. A classic "why didn't I think of that?" idea.But I didn't, Mary Jane Parrish did. The enterprising Florida tennis-player-turned-sportswear-designer invented the Skite, a one-piece, multi-tasking skirt/t...
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Golf Style: Persistent Perceptions of Sartorial Shortcomings
The Boys of the Bad Pants OpenA reputation, once it becomes ingrained in the minds of the masses, can be almost impossible to shake... and golf, over the years, has developed a sartorial reputation that's decidedly sordid.Thanks to decades of garish po...
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Momoko Ueda: Pearly Gates Golf Girl Wins Mizuno Classic
Momoko Ueda 2011 Mizuno Classic Photo: Adam Pretty/Getty Images
Like other uplifting golf stories of the past weekend Momoko Ueda's emotional win at the Mizuno Classic was eclipsed by what's now known in polite circles as the "William's Flap". Blame the golf media or the social networks... or human nature... for...
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Golf Apparel & Accessories: The Asia/America Disparity – Part 2
A couple of weeks ago a lively Linkedin discussion broke out concerning global preferences in golf attire. The topic was launched by Dennis Allen of Back Nine, the new multi-media golf lifestyle and entertainment network.
He posted this: "Golf fashion - is it boring in the USA or is it just me?"
The thing is, Dennis has...
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Golf Apparel & Accessories: The Asia/America Disparity – Part 1
I've often marveled at the sheer variety of golf apparel and accessories available in Japan... not to mention the unabashed whimsicality of many their designs. You may have seen my musings on the subject right here a time or two....
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"An Excuse for Eccentricity" – Golf Inspires Prada
Creators of golf apparel often cite the fashion runways as inspiration for their designs, but the reverse was true last month in Milan at Prada's 2012 Menswear show in Milan... and the ironic thing is: Miuccia Prada hates golf.
Then again, the Italian...
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Ryo Ishikawa: Back on US Soil… With a New Look?
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A subdued pastel shirt, and trousers resembling... like... Dockers?
It's not what we're accustomed to seeing on Ryo Ishikawa... and it begs the question: has "Hanikami Ōji" abandoned the vividly chromatic color pallet he's famous for?
It hardly seems possible but that's the look he was sporting on Monday at Riviera Country Club when he...
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Rugged Ryo Returns – 米国に石川遼を返します
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Did you ever think you'd see Ryo Ishikawa in a lumberjack shirt?
Neither did I, but that's just what he was wearing yesterday, layered under a black puffer vest. The scene was Narita Airport and Ryo was enroute to the USA... where he'll be pla...
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Ice Tee in the Poconos & Polar Bear Golf in Connecticut
My trip to Orlando yesterday was little more than a turn-around, giving me barely a glimpse of bright skies, green grass and palm trees as I rushed to the Convention center... and back. Here in CT, the ground has been snow-covered since Christmas... ...
