Paré is golf seen through Filipino-American eyes, and it doesn’t hide it. The word is Tagalog slang for buddy, and founder Matt Sakdalan likes that it also reads as par plus an E, for even. The colors are the pastels of the Philippine flag. The products are named after food and slang: Ube, Adobo, Gulay, Pakwan, Kanin. The brand calls itself “an on-going creative outlet paying homage to the love of golf, streetwear, and Filipino culture,” and that is exactly what the store looks like.
The kid putting. The best thing Paré has is its Paré Boy logo, a line drawing of a small golfer leaning over a putt. It’s the founder himself as a kid; the product copy says it shows him putting “in my Girbaud Jean Shorts.” It turns up on mocknecks, socks, a towel, a tote and the new waterproof hat, and it’s the reason we kept clicking.
About that triangle. The other logo, the Manila triangle on the Imperial caps, the Bluetross covers and the black mocknecks, looks a lot like Prada’s triangle plaque. We don’t think that’s an accident, and neither, it seems, does Paré: the Manila mockneck’s whole product description is “The Devil Wears Paré.”
Limited drops. Sakdalan played college golf at Gordon College, put the first hat up for sale in November 2023 and has run the brand in limited drops ever since. When we checked, 86 of its 112 products were sold out, including most of the colorful pieces, which is why they get their own section below. The hats are made and embroidered in New Jersey, and the tees, long sleeves and hoodies are made in the USA. The collaborations are strong for a brand this young: Imperial, Bluetross, Mogshade, Barnaby’s, Little Sundays and Paris Golf Gallery, which brought Paré to Paris Fashion Week in 2025.
Sakdalan carried the idea for more than ten years before he did anything with it. He worked at pharma media agencies and then in the sneaker industry, and when that company folded and let him go with severance, he told his old college, Gordon, that a Panda Express fortune cookie he opened with his wife read like an instruction. He took it as one. The PARE GOLF trademark was filed in October 2023, and the first product went up that November.
That first product was the 5-Panel Camp Hat, which the brand calls “my first baby” and traces back to Sakdalan’s early obsession with Supreme. The first piece of clothing came next: the “94 AM Sensation” mockneck, a pink-and-white stripe borrowed from Tiger’s 1994 U.S. Amateur, cut oversized and cropped from samples he bought in Japan. Both are long sold out, and both are in the section at the bottom of this page.
The drawings are by Nith, whom Sakdalan calls his partner in crime. Nith drew the Paré Boy, and the brand’s About page says the logo and the wordmark tip their hat to PING and Karsten Solheim, whose own logo is a little man putting. Nith also designed the “Faces” rope hat, printed so randomly that no two of the 100 match.
The Paris chapter started on Instagram. Pierre Greilsamer of Paris Golf Gallery followed Paré, in Sakdalan’s words, “before I even had a product,” and later connected him with Gwop, a golf swap meet. That led to a Paré showing during Paris Fashion Week 2025 in the Cadillac building beside the Paris Opera, and to the Paris Golf Gallery hat. “Generating some sort of Filipino representation out there was always part of our mission,” he told Gordon College afterward.
Paré also runs a members tier it calls Kapamilya, Tagalog for family, with some pieces sold only to members and at lower prices. We’ve left those out because you can’t buy them without joining. As recently as July 2024 Sakdalan was still calling Paré his side gig, and his one regret, he told Kollective Hustle, is not starting earlier: “Only thing I would’ve done differently is start sooner.”
Ten pieces · $55–$170The triangle logo: four Imperial caps, two shirts, two Bluetross covers and two pieces that already sold out.
The fall campaignFrom Paré’s fall 2026 shoot: the Manila caps, the Bluetross covers, the Gulay hoodies and the Plissé pants.
The nameFrom Paré’s About page: what the colors mean, and the hats that wear them.
Three pieces in stock · $20–$70The drawing of the kid putting: the founder as a boy, on the green in his Girbaud jean shorts.
Nine pieces · $55–$160Oversized mocknecks, pleated pants, a wind shirt and the first collared shirt. Most are made in the USA.
Out in the worldTwo of the sold-out collaborations, as the brands shot them: the Little Sundays toddler bag on a course, and the Paris Golf Gallery hat in Paris.
Fourteen pieces you can’t buy right now86 of Paré’s 112 products were sold out when we checked, and the loudest ones went first. Prices are what they sold for. Paré does restock some pieces, so watch the drops.
It's Tagalog slang for buddy or friend. Founder Matt Sakdalan also points out that it reads as par plus E, for even.
Matt Sakdalan, a Filipino-American golfer who played college golf at Gordon College. The first Paré product, the 5-Panel Camp Hat, went on sale in November 2023.
The line drawing of a kid putting is the founder himself as a boy. Paré's product copy describes it as him putting in his Girbaud jean shorts.
Paré hasn't said so, but the Manila triangle looks a lot like Prada's triangle plaque, and the Manila mockneck's product description is simply "The Devil Wears Paré."
Its snapbacks and nylon hats are made and embroidered in New Jersey, and its tees, long sleeves, hoodies and socks are made in the USA. The Mogshade headcovers were made in Portugal.
The brand works in limited drops. On October 27, 2026, 86 of its 112 products were sold out, including most of the colorful hats, mocknecks and headcovers.
