Angus & Grace Go Golfing makes the kind of golf clothes you forget are golf clothes. There are no big logos, no technical seams and no loud prints. It is a tight range of polos, knits, shorts and trousers in navy, stone, olive and brown, cut by a former tailor, and a run of caps that do the joking for everything else. Angus and Grace, for anyone wondering, are founder Matthew Burns’ two West Highland White Terriers.
The clothes. Burns spent five years as a tailor at P. Johnson in Sydney, and it shows in the details. The shorts and trousers share one pattern: mid rise, straight cut, side seam pockets and an inverted box pleat with a flap on the back pocket. The knit polo is 100% cotton with a ribbed collar and a three-button placket. The UPF 50+ polo, which we would buy first, swaps the chest logo for a small swinging golfer on the sleeve. “Neutral but impactful is always the goal,” the brand told AGM Golf, and that sentence covers most of the range.
The caps. GOLF DADDY started as a Father’s Day idea and turned into a sub-brand, on caps, tees and a five-panel with a patch of two golfers. Every hat on the site costs A$60. They are the playful half of a brand whose name was chosen, in its own words, to feel a little playful and not take itself too seriously.
Buying it in the US. The site prices everything in Australian dollars, so a A$160 polo comes to about $112. AAGGG has also made exclusive pieces with No Laying Up, sold in US dollars through the NLU Pro Shop, including mock necks, pocket polos and the GOLF DADDY hat. If you are in Sydney, the shop at 39 William Street in Paddington has a putting area and old golf films on a projector.
Six pieces · A$80–A$400The UPF polo, the cotton knit and the GOLF DADDY tee do most of the work. Prices in Australian dollars, with US dollars at about 70 cents.
The lookbookFrom AAGGG’s January 2025 lookbook, shot by Take Studios.
Six pieces · A$220–A$450Weatherproof layers that do not look technical, and one pair of shorts and one pair of trousers in thirteen colors between them.
On the courseAAGGG out of the studio: a cart, a fairway and the umbrella.
Six styles · all A$60Every hat costs the same. GOLF DADDY in four versions, the dogs, a visor and a bucket.
Three pieces · A$60–A$80Made with The Fliers Club and the Australian Golf Passport podcast.
Matthew Burns studied fashion at the University of Technology Sydney and then spent five years as a tailor at P. Johnson, the Sydney tailoring house. “That place was an education in itself,” he told The Old Ghosts in 2025. The customers, he said, taught him as much as the work did.
When he started his own label, he named it after his dogs. “I wanted the name to feel a little playful and not take itself too seriously,” the brand told AGM Golf. “Golf can sometimes feel quite traditional, so having something lighthearted felt right.” The clothes went the other way: clean, classic and minimal, in what the brand calls harmonious capsule collections.
The idea behind them is simple. “I don’t think golf clothing needs to exist in its own category,” Burns said. “I want one wardrobe—you should be able to hug your friends, go on hot dates, hit the pub, go to work, or play a round of golf, all in the same clothes.” On design, he talks about purpose more than style: “It’s the practical details—whether it’s fabric or pockets—that give a piece purpose. Garments with purpose become your best friends, because they work with you.”
The business now has three parts. There is the shop on William Street in Paddington, with stockists at Playfair Golf and Goods in Randwick and Mulligans Clubmakers in Armadale, Melbourne. There is the online store. And there is a made-to-order program for golf clubs, which ships straight from the factories to the club. “Do not be shy!” the brand told club buyers. “We can go as bold and creative as you like, or keep things very classic and understated.”
As for his own game, Burns is relaxed about it. “I feel like I always hit it well and score poorly,” he said. “I’m not trying to win the US Open, so I may as well try and make it look good. No one cares what I shoot!”
