Golf Clothes You Can Wear After the Round
The test is simple and unforgiving: would you keep it on for dinner. Most golf clothing fails it, because the thing that makes a polo read as golf — the logo placement, the sheen of the fabric, the cut through the shoulder — is exactly the thing that makes it read as golf in a restaurant.
The brands here pass for different reasons. Aimé Leon Dore and Carhartt WIP pass because they are not golf companies and never were. Gramicci passes because a climbing pant from 1982 was always going to work anywhere. Casualist and Criquet pass because they built to the test deliberately, in fabrics and cuts borrowed from menswear rather than from performance sportswear. It is the shelf to shop if you travel to golf rather than living at a club.
VIEW BRAND →Menswear, footwear and accessories from Queens, New York, in business since 2014.
VIEW BRAND →Atlanta hat brand Johnny Persón named for his sister’s birthday: structured snapbacks, truckers and a new athletic line.
VIEW BRAND →Northern Beaches label built between surf and golf. Founded 2022, jacquard-knitted heavyweight knits, and its own GolfComfort polo fabric.
VIEW BRAND →Workwear-derived apparel, hats and bags, made in Europe under licence from Carhartt since 1994.
VIEW BRAND →Elie Reboul's West London label that outgrew its own name — quiet clothes for golf and after.
VIEW BRAND →CAPTAINS HELM's golf line — California outdoor lifestyle read through Tokyo streetwear.
VIEW BRAND →Austin's original players shirt, est. 2010 — Pima cotton, removable stays, made in Peru and says so.
VIEW BRAND →Scottsdale brothers, est. 2013, named after their grandfather — relaxed silhouettes before that was normal.
VIEW BRAND →Golf-rooted streetwear founded in 2019, known for its Jordan Brand collaborations.
VIEW BRAND →A UK golf and streetwear label started in 2024 by two friends: striped cotton polos, pleated shorts and track sets named for the last light.
VIEW BRAND →Australian golf apparel and accessories with the volume turned up, from headcovers to insulated stubby holders.
VIEW BRAND →Climbing pants born on Yosemite granite in 1982 that quietly became golf-course staples.
VIEW BRAND →Resort-style camp collar polos, a single-button pullover and hats from $40. Better taste, less tradition.
VIEW BRAND →Carlsbad, est. 2022 — retro-modern prints, towels and objects that treat golf as graphic design.
VIEW BRAND →Maxim Lundh’s Stockholm label, built on late-nineties tour golf — pleated slacks, ribbed jersey polos and merino knits, with no elastane in sight.
VIEW BRAND →Surf and skate silhouettes for the course, every collection named for a stretch of Australian coast.
VIEW BRAND →Athletic and lifestyle apparel, footwear and accessories, headquartered in Vancouver since 1998.
VIEW BRAND →The stand-up Mantra Collar polo, landscape-inspired seasonal collections and 1% of sales to conservation. New: the Sonoran Desert collection.
VIEW BRAND →A design venture through the lens of golf — heavyweight graphic tees, mohair cardigans and headcovers handmade in Japan.
VIEW BRAND →Nine products, no founder named, everything shot at night on a floodlit par-three.
VIEW BRAND →Streetwear golf from England under the banner No Membership Required: camo quarter-zips, stripe polos, heavyweight graphic tees and cargos.
VIEW BRAND →From the Museum of Peace & Quiet orbit — considered golf clothes with an owl crest and an adidas Samba collab.
VIEW BRAND →Long Island natives making golf clothes from the round: the Hudson brrr° polo, cashmere for fall and a Bunker Print of Bethpage Black.
VIEW BRAND →Alpine sports house founded in Annecy in 1947; its XT-6 and Speedcross trail shoes are the ones that turn up on muni tee boxes.
VIEW BRAND →Max Siegelman's NYC stable — racing-heritage sweats that ended up on tour players and a Maxfli box.
VIEW BRAND →British golf clothing from the founders of Folk and Urban Golf, named for Seve's first clubs.
VIEW BRAND →California golf and lifestyle apparel, plus an eyewear line made from Italian acetate.
VIEW BRAND →Joe Kudla's Encinitas-born activewear label, now in golf behind Tom Holland — and still best at the off-course half of the wardrobe.
VIEW BRAND →Wide double pleated trousers, pleated shorts, cable knits and old-school caps, after the way golf looked in the '80s and '90s.
VIEW BRAND →A Hong Kong golf community started in 2023, with golf days, simulator nights and merch built on cha chaan tengs, minibuses and Temple Street.
VIEW BRAND →A brand-new golf label (saha is Turkish for field) with a vintage football-kit polo, joke-on-the-back tees, bamboo tees in a cigarette box and clean stretch basics.
VIEW BRAND →A new San Francisco golf brand named for Sloat Boulevard: natural fibers only, with organic cotton fleece, merino polos and Ventile outerwear made in Portugal.