Radio Coffee & Beer — South Austin. Jack Wilson opened it with his father Greg in 2014 in a renovated 1940s house off Menchaca, and it runs coffee bar to beer bar in one room until midnight. They roast under their own label. Two more followed, on Montopolis and East 11th.
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The Finnish direct-to-consumer brand built its name on forged irons at half the going rate. Five years on, the catalog runs to full-face wedges, a fairway wood, a stand bag and a driver that sold out. The Skyforger wedge now sits at $99.
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Sixty-two licensed pieces in a single day, across fifteen schools, and almost none of them named after the school. They are called Hook ’Em, Between The Hedges, Geaux Tigers, Get Out Of Our Swamp — Swag licensed the marks and then went looking for what the student section actually shouts.
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Ten Austin coffee rooms sorted by the only thing that matters at 6am — when the door actually opens — with every hour read off the venue’s own website. Then four places to eat when you walk off.
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Birds Stripe Polo — the piece that undoes our own first sentence about this brand. Short sleeve, three buttons, in a cotton jersey Merrill custom-dyes, with the mark embroidered at the chest. $65.
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The sign by the first tee at Bethpage Black does not exaggerate. Forty-five holes in eight days: a private nine in the Hudson Valley with no tee sheet and a dog on the green, a links-style public gem in Dutchess County that gave up the best round of the week, and the Black on a cancellation, first out after the rain delay lifted.
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A.P.C. Golf and Tokyo’s Cph/Golf welded their marks into one and put the address of A.P.C.’s Paris flagship across the back. Eighteen pieces, ¥4,400 to ¥28,600, six already gone — and a Japan-only store standing between you and all of it.
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No dogs, no punchlines, no novelty shapes. Eighteen headcovers loud enough to see from the next fairway because of pattern, color and type — Mogshade’s woven tiles, Devereux’s iconography, a Ferrari-red leather mallet. $48 to $128.
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Thirteen pieces, dropped August 21 — waffle-knit polos, a herringbone half zip with a gold zipper, pinstripe pleated trousers and raw indigo denim hats. The Brooklyn muni label’s most tailored collection yet, all in stock.
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Two miles from the Capitol, 141 acres that never got built on. The first integrated course in the South, the Crenshaw story, the fight over the UT lease — and how the sharp doglegs actually play. The full Muny deep dive.
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Nine brands, nine awards: Students is best overall, Metalwood best retro, Malbon most influential, plus Eastside, Public Drip, Midiron, Clamp, ALD and Hidden Links Society. Six pieces from each.
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Bowline — named for the knot, detailed in maritime signal flags, shot on a marina dock. One of four Workbench limited editions. $699.
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“Golf is not a fair game, so why build a course fair?”
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— Pete Dye
Architect, 1925–2020
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Seventeen white and off-white tees, one per brand, all verified in stock this week. Criquet, Metalwood Studio, Casualist and Siegelman Stable lead, and five of the labels have never appeared here before.
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The tee picks come in a foil sachet in Newport green with SWING KINGS across the bottom, six stamped wooden tees inside. $14.
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Thirty years ago a Swede in tight pink trousers won at the Byron Nelson and golf clothing changed. J.Lindeberg is still built on that afternoon — 23 pieces from the Hovland line and the anniversary capsule.
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Golf is the only sport that counts in birds — birdie, eagle, albatross — and then almost never puts one on anything. Twenty pieces that do, plus the brands named after birds that never bothered.
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Founded in 1985 by Peter Jacobsen and named after a St Andrews caddie, MacKenzie has quietly become the maker other brands go to. Every collaboration we could document — 34 bags, 15 partners.
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The grip is the only part of a golf club you actually touch, and four companies decide what almost everyone holds. Five smaller houses start somewhere else.
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Mock necks in six colors, rugby stripes that look like 1974, and campaign photography better than the budget suggests. Twelve of the twenty-one men’s pieces are already gone.
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Eighteen genuinely all-black pieces, one per brand, head to toe. About half of what golf sells as black is actually charcoal — these are the ones that survived looking at the photo.
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Seventeen golf brands founded or co-founded by women that make men’s and unisex gear. Hand-knit wool since 1962, Horween leather, Cabretta gloves, polos and Italian shoes.
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“Golf should be a pleasure, not a penance.”
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— Donald Ross
Architect, 1872–1948
Drop two landed Monday. Where the 2025 collection arrived on Rickie Fowler at the WM Phoenix Open in Realtree Edge and Rickie Orange, this one turned up quietly in Dusty Olive — on a brand-new pattern built for Realtree’s fortieth. All ten pieces.
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