Whatever Floats Their Boat...

Brent Read talks to Geoff Ogilvy about his year and about the upcoming Australian Open. And it includes this note:

Director Paul McNamee revealed the tournament would have a strong emphasis on fashion, holding parades for female spectators. The golfers will be included, with daily awards to the best dressed player.
Meanwhile Douglas Lowe reports on Ian Poulter getting into women's fashion, with this quote from Pouter:
Poulter believes both men's and women's golf fashion has moved up a notch in the last few years, but not to the level of the 1970s. "When I came out on tour in 2000 there wasn't as much fashion in golf as there was then," he said.

"If you look at pictures of Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Doug Sanders & Co, they were wearing tartan trousers and bright colours and it was fun. Why can't we get back to how it was back then?"

Tartan and bright I can see. But Doug Sanders? 

He's No Marty Hackel!

Golfweek TV introduces Robert Lohrer, Golfweek's new Fashion Director, and let me just say that this attempt to counter Golf Digest's one-and-only Marty Hackel is not off to a roaring start with the hole directors chair/cable access show set thing.

But more importantly, I can now say I've met Marty Hackel, and there is only one Marty Hackel!

In fact, we're only a few weeks away from his Masters fashion and merchandise tent reports, easily one of the highlights of Golf Channel's daily post round coverage (and now that I've said that, it probably means they've replaced him with a segment of Andrew Magee's top ten most incoherent thoughts of the day, sponsored in part by Grey Goose).

Even Paula Creamer Would Just Say No...

02mila_slide2.jpgIn Sunday Styles of The New York Times, Guy Trebay looks at the frightening stuff in men's fall Spring 2007 fashion. I normally would not have noticed the story, but with the photo (left) that accompanied this front pager, how could one not feel pain for our beloved game?

Thankfully, Trebay is not endorsing this look for golf or any other well-lit locale when including it with his "just say no" outfits:

Say no to seersucker swallowtail coats for the beach (Etro); to pastel golf wear seemingly designed for caddies with a sideline in a soft-core porn (Missoni). 

Take that Marty Hackel!

Note how much fun the model appears to be having wearing this ensemble!