Walker Golf is built on a specifically Australian relationship to the game — municipal, unfussy, cheap to join — and the clothes are cut to match rather than to signal. Jack Fardell competed in the X Games at eleven and rode for adidas before he and co-founder Glenn Walker shipped the first collection in July 2022, and the skate background shows up as fit and restraint, not graphics.
The Par-Tec Quarter Zip Fleece at $110 is the clearest version of it: the house performance fabric is lightweight, stretchy and moisture-wicking, and nothing on the garment announces any of that.
It suits the player who wants to wear the same thing to the muni and the pub afterwards, and who would rather the piece read as clothes than as kit. Twenty-two pieces run $44.95 to $229.95, and a Kooka cap is the cheapest way to see whether the making is for you.
Walker Golf makes things for the course and the pub. That's the whole philosophy, and it comes from a specific place: a professional skateboarder from the Gold Coast who was named after Jack Nicklaus.
Jack Fardell competed in the X Games at eleven and has ridden for adidas for years. His father loved golf enough to name his son after the game's greatest player, which Fardell describes with a shrug — "I didn't really have a choice but to play golf." Over the years he found himself in a circle of skaters who all happened to play, and when he landed in Southern California the golf-industry connections started stacking up. Walker Golf Things released its first collection in July 2022.
The name came from co-founder Glenn Walker, and the logic was as unfussy as the clothes: "We were playing around with names and we kind of suggested Walker because most of the time we're playing golf and walking anyway."
What separates Walker from the other trend-forward labels crowding the category is that it argues for something. Fardell built the brand around a specifically Australian relationship to the game — "Golf is not so much an elitist game in Australia. It's not million dollar memberships, and you can go down to your local club and it's a great community. It's easy to sign up and become a member and not crazy expensive. So you can get into the game of golf in a really positive way down there." If that sounds familiar to anyone who plays Austin munis, that's exactly why this brand belongs on this site.
The visual language runs on the same duality. Walker works with photographer Will Watt, editor-in-chief of Caddie Magazine, who shoots Barnbougle, Royal Melbourne and Kingston Heath — and then drives out to the Northern Territory for red-dirt greens, tin-shed clubhouses, and locals hitting shots with a beer in the other hand. Both of those are Australian golf. Walker dresses for both.
The Kooka — a kookaburra perched on a golf club, and also Fardell's family emblem — has been on every drop since the first. Underneath it sits Par-Tec, the house performance fabric: lightweight, stretchy, moisture-wicking, and engineered to disappear on you. Nothing in the line screams technical. That restraint is the point, and it's why the newer knitwear works so well — checks, chevrons, boucle, ombre fades. Golf clothes that read as clothes.
Photography courtesy of Walker Golf Things
Walker Golf Things is an Australian golf apparel brand that launched its debut collection in July 2022. It was founded by professional skateboarder Jack Fardell, originally from the Gold Coast of Queensland, along with a group of friends from the skate industry. The clothes are built to work on the course and at the pub, and the aesthetic sits somewhere between skate wear and traditional golf kit.
Pro skateboarder Jack Fardell, who competed in the X Games at age 11 and has ridden for adidas for years. His father was passionate about golf and named him after Jack Nicklaus. As Fardell put it, "I didn't really have a choice but to play golf." He now lives in New York City.
From co-founder Glenn Walker. Fardell explained it plainly: "We were playing around with names and we kind of suggested Walker because most of the time we're playing golf and walking anyway." The double meaning was the whole point.
A kookaburra perched atop a golf club — a defining symbol of Australia and also Fardell's family emblem. It appeared on every item in the debut drop and remains the brand's signature mark, showing up embroidered on polos and caps, printed across towels, and tooled into leather headcovers.
Walker's proprietary lightweight performance fabric, engineered for movement, moisture-wicking, and temperature regulation. It runs through the polos, shorts, pants, and caps in the Par-Tec line. The trick is that it doesn't look like performance gear — it reads like normal clothes.
Because Fardell saw a gap. "Golf is not so much an elitist game in Australia," he said. "It's not million dollar memberships, and you can go down to your local club and it's a great community. It's easy to sign up and become a member and not crazy expensive. So you can get into the game of golf in a really positive way down there." That accessibility is the brand's founding argument.
Yes. In February 2024 Walker released a collection with Shortees, the Sydney pitch-and-putt course, leaning into the short-course and par-3 side of Australian golf culture. The brand also works with photographer Will Watt, editor-in-chief of Caddie Magazine, who shoots both the world top-100 Sandbelt courses and the red-dirt greens and tin-shed clubhouses of the Northern Territory.
Directly from walkergolfthings.com, which runs a US storefront with USD pricing. Polos land in the $100–$150 range, knitwear and outerwear run $140–$230, and caps sit around $60–$70.
