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Golf Dress Code Rules


November 8, 2024


Johnny Chop’s Logo Guidelines

May 7, 2019 / Maidstone Men’s Locker


Exemptions:

⁃ You’re scratch or better, and or…

⁃ Member of top 20, and or…

⁃ Member of two top 100s


When you’re not a member of said club…

1. Must play it to wear it. See rule 11 for Masters gear.

2. No more than 2 logos “showing” on the golf course at any given time. Hat, shirt, and belt with three different non-member clubs, at the same time, from your most recent unaccompanied boondoggle is too aggressive.

3. No more than 1 logo “showing” off the course. Pool side with MPCC dragon hat and Ohoopee t-shirt is unfair.

4. Don’t wear two of same logo unless you’re a member of said course.

5. As a guest, don’t wear the host logo. “T-shirt of the band to the concert”

6. Don’t wear it if you’re within 50 mile radius of your home course. Example: Peachtree GC (not member of) to Druid Hills GC (member of). Disrespectful to home course staff, especially if home course not highly ranked.

7. Sum total of course rankings must be more than 20. Example: Don’t wear Pine Valley and Cypress at same time (1+3=4)

8. When you’re a tourist , don’t wear a recently played top hundred, to another top hundred, that is within same “town” if not member of…Ex: Shinny hat to National and not a member of either.

9. Visible two. If vest is “A”, polo cannot also be “A”. Example. Pulling off Friars QZ to reveal Friars polo.

10. Rules don’t apply during an impromptu range sesh at home course (pulling random gear from locker).

11. Master gear? Yes, under the following circumstances: 1) Under 18 years old. 2) Over 65. 3) Yard work, lake, soccer games, etc - just never on a golf course. “ANGC” gear obviously different.

12. Must play more than one round to flex any single item over $300 (ex: no cashmere QZ from Maidstone if only played once)

13. No logo’d golf bag, duffles or luggage from non-membered course

1. No driver-head cover from non-member course

2. Putter cover ok but only if you went low

14. Outing shirts in the garbage…corp logo on the sleeve = Goodwill

15. Bag tags expire after 30 days…golf bag shouldn’t look like a Christmas tree.

16. No logo rain gear from non-member club

17. Custom golf shoes? No, unless you live in The Villages (pineapple!)

18. White shorts - you must be scratch

19. Logo on shorts (tramp stamp aka trespass stamp). Whiskey tango with a few select exceptions (ex NGLA, Kap, and Kitty).

20. Logo Umbrella from non member club?Preferably not.

21. Crystal Rocks glass? Did you have dinner at the club, if not, it’s a “no”.

22. Can’t wear NGLA or Maidstone in the airport. Looks like Under Armor or Vineyard Vines from a distance. Bad enough you’re flying commercial.

23. Custom yardage book from non-member club - no

24. Butler National gear? Preferably not unless tonal

25. No “member logos” (ex PV shield only). Never! Stolen valor.

26. No warring tribes - don’t mix Indian logos.

27. Don’t bundle like kind logos. Example: Balty and Winged Foot, Cypress and Kiawah, or Friars and LACC.

28. Swim meet(s). Support your club, not a Top Hun you could never get into. *Masters gear acceptable if your clubs colors include “green”, but not recommended.

29. Can’t wear a logo white hat, with a blazer, if not member of said club. Most especially in the airport, flexing a a non-member top-hun, on your way to an unaccompanied round in the Hamptons is egregious.

30. Must break 90 at PV to wear PV.

31. During a Member Guest tourney your choice of attire should be obvious. If you’re the Member, represent your club(s). If you’re the Guest, represent your club(s). Only exception, which is not applicable during the final round, is gear from a mutual golf trip together and or a host-gift.

32. Member Member. Wear your club.

33. Wearing two PUBLIC Top-Huns at the same time is grotesque. Strict exception is wearing a combo during the actual trip which was funded by someone else (out of respect for host). For example, Bandon and Old McDonald while on campus, sponsored by your FIL, is lame but understandable.

34. Bucket hats? Okay if: You’re caddying for a friend, and or you’ve had skin cancer, and or you’re over 60, and or you’re 200+ lbs and under 5’8”. Otherwise, “no”. As always, scratch golfers exempt from guidelines.

35. Never use the phrase “bucket list” - scratch golfers not exempt from this one.

36. Never call around your original point of contact. Example, your friend invites you to join him on a golf trip hosted by someone you’ve never met. Over three days, you become fast friends with the host, but he doesn’t expressly offer to host you in the future. You never initiate and or solicit a future round without express written notice to your friend that made the initial introduction.

37. Can’t wear your own boat logo

38. Don’t use the phrase “in and out”…especially when leaning on a host for a lift.

39. Never say “was invited but couldn’t make it” or I’ve got an “on” but haven’t found time when someone asks if you’ve played Cypress or equivalent.

40. No surfboards in the locker room

41. Classifications: Member, affiliate, guest, and tourist.

42. “Guest in Good Standing”. Any combination of the following: Multiple Member-Guest invites, your father’s club, 6+ rounds per year, official or unofficial reciprocity, annual vacation destination, multiple staff members affectionately call you by your nickname.

43. “Guest”: You played w a member

44. “Tourist”: Unaccompanied round

45. Never, ever, arrive before host

46. Tip liberally, but only after checking with host to understand protocols

47. No non-golf logos on a golf course unless you played for the team (ex Braves hat, with Shinny logo, violates #45 and #37 )

48. Never wear Masters gear to Tour Champ

49. Don’t give Berckmans to your pilot.

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