Table of contents for Style SIP 2025 in Golf Digest

IT’S A SPECIAL TYPE OF HUMAN who relishes spotting and reporting a dress-code infraction. The findings of several psychiatric studies devoted to the phenomenon are inconclusive, though evidence suggests more than a mild correlation with repressed Oedipal desires. To dress like a good little boy and eliminate competition to “win” one’s mommy. The only aspect approaching certainty about these cases is that their motivation for joining private clubs is primarily for dress codes, with golf or other associative recreational activities as secondary. Or more plainly, the thrill you or I get from sinking a long birdie putt is like what the unhinged individual experiences being the first to notice an untucked shirt. If you’re concerned a friend or fellow club member is afficted with this still unnamed condition, delicacy is…

HERE’S A SARTORIAL HILL I’M WILLING TO DIE ON or at least endure a sunburn for: Shorts should be short, especially on the golf course. Too many golfers are trapped in a decades-old fashion bubble from when long shorts were all the rage—or perhaps some think they were doomed to a life sentence playing in Bermuda. “Bro, this is New Jersey.” The whole purpose of shorts is to help beat the heat with less coverage, so why are you wearing fabric down to your knees? Skimpier shorts are simply cooler, lighter, and more comfortable. I’m not suggesting you find a pair of “nutcutters” the length your high school P.E. teacher wore while overseeing punitive squat thrusts, but you can do better than the ubiquitous slim-fit cut-off chinos golfers seem to…

An invitation to play the Dunhill Links Championship as an amateur is a knee-knocking affair. Sure, players have the anxiety of playing with the pros and in front of crowds, but they also have the weather, which can be counted on to wreak as much havoc, if not more, than any amateur player’s cold-topped 3-wood or balky putter stroke. The tournament takes place in early October and is, with all due respect to the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, at least the equal triumvirate of golf, Mother Nature and fashion. Spread over three courses—Kingsbarns, Carnoustie and the Old Course—the DP World Tour event is a showcase for three of the most celebrated links courses in the British Isles, where, as the saying goes, you can experience all four seasons during a…

Project confidence at all times. It’s a way of life for Linn Grant, whose first athletic passion wasn’t golf but equestrian, where it was all about making a 1,200-pound animal think she was in charge. When she reached the point where she needed to buy a horse to compete at the next level, Grant’s family wasn’t ready for that commitment, so she changed leads. Her father, John, played on the Swedish Golf Tour and her grandfather, James, was a teaching pro. After getting more serious with golf as a teenager, Linn attended a sport high school in Sweden where athletes of all disciplines live, train and learn together. There her classmates included golfers Ludvig Åberg and Maja Stark. “It prepared me for college,” Grant says. “We had team practices at ASU…

“QUIET ON THE TEE!” We’ve heard it a billion times, and we always abide. After all, golf is about decorum. We must never forget this or the next thing you know there will be professional events where patrons run indiscriminately around hurling cups of beer in Phoenix. We cannot let this happen. As a lover of the game, I stand steadfast, and yet …. Golf was founded in the 15th century in Scotland, a strange, cold and seemingly inhospitable place to decide to whack a small ball great distances into tiny holes. I’m not suggesting the early Scottish were mad, but nothing about their bright tartans and obsession with the game was particularly subtle either. Old Tom Morris—jaunty hat, flowing beard, stylish sport coat. He’s practically a member of Jethro…

Nestled On the West Coast of Australia, more than 1,200 miles from the next place with a population over 10,000, Perth may be the most remote city in the world. Imagine a skinny teenager restless for exploration and hungry for excitement. “Since I was a little kid, I was maybe a bit of a showoff, always trying to make someone laugh or make myself look cool,” says Min Woo Lee, Olympian golfer and four-time winner on international tours. Despite weighing just 165 pounds, the 26-year-old is one of the longest drivers in the game, as of this writing averaging 325 yards off the tee and ranking third on the PGA Tour for distance. The math of timing and torque explain only so much. Could it be that power also comes…

Akin to how eight in 10 men regard themselves as above average drivers, similar self-overestimation exists with packing. However, Scott Mahoney does know how to fill a suitcase better than most. As CEO of Peter Millar, he has access to the company’s entire portfolio of designs and years of business travel has honed his methods. Here are Mahoney’s tips for packing to spend a week in St. Andrews in October.…

DEPENDING ON YOUR PERSONAL STYLE AND HEAD SHAPE, the perfect hat can be hard to find. “Hats continue to grow as a fashion statement off the course,” says Niall Kelly, golf professional and shop manager at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y., which carries roughly two dozen styles of various colors and logo applications and sells about 15,000 annually. Here, Kelly explains what makes 10 of their more popular models distinct. While materials have become more modern, certain old-school styles are hot—including several, like truckers, that didn’t originate on the golf course. All pictured sell at the historic U.S. Open venue for $35 to $45.…

IT’S A BIRD! IT’S A PLANE! It’s a golf ball coming right at you that you couldn’t see because of harsh sun! Okay, sure, that’s a pretty rare occurrence, but it might be time to switch from your overkill of hats to one trusty pair of sunglasses. It’s a hell of a fashion change-up—we understand the hesitation—but what if this is what you need to finally break 80? Non-polarized sunglasses (polarized can distort vision, which is the last thing you want) don’t just boost your sight and depth perception on the course to help you play better now. They can even help you play longer as they will hold off cataracts, macular degeneration and sun damage. Rickie Fowler has become synonymous with the look despite the potential fashion faux pas.…

STYLE IN GOLF SHOES is nuanced. You want something that gives you confidence—not only in terms of visual panache but more importantly, in how they perform. Consider that walking 18 holes requires approximately 10,000 steps. There’s simply no disputing that a properly fit pair of the right shoes will help you perform better athletically. Luckily, today’s golf shoes don’t require you to sacrifice on the aesthetic to achieve that. The options in our golf shoe guide offer elite on-course performance and aesthetics for everyone—from lovers of classics to golfers who want to bring street-shoe style to the tee box. WOMEN’S SHOES…

WHAT PLAYERS ARE WEARING is a topic that’s getting discussed more in the media. Many months in advance, apparel brands plan what their paid ambassadors will don each day of the major tournaments. Some pros are highly involved in this decision-making, and others less so. Depending on their clothing deals, many have carte blanche to wake up and put on whatever they feel like. The game has a history of famously sharp dressers—Hall of Famers like Walter Hagen, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Chi Chi Rodriguez and Seve Ballesteros quickly come to mind, but so do golfers like Calvin Peete, Steve Elkington and Jesper Parnevik. Who is carrying on the tradition best today? To select seven player finalists and crown Golf Digest’s “Best Dressed on Tour” for 2025, we assembled a panel…

It’s not often that James Bond and Steph Curry are uttered in the same sentence. One is a fictional British spy who can navigate his way through any situation with inimitable grace and confidence; the other is a basketball legend and probably the greatest three-point shooter of all time. What brought the two together? Golf grips. On the 60th anniversary of the James Bond franchise, Golf Pride created collectible grips inspired by the famous golf scene in the Bond classic Goldfinger. The collectible box comes with a gold bar—the wager in the golf match where the eponymous villain’s caddy famously drops a ball down his pants leg, averting a lost ball penalty—that houses an extra, fourteenth grip. (Okay, it is just cardboard painted gold.) For Curry, Golf Pride created a…