Does anyone else remember the golf fashion of the sixties and seventies? They shouldn't have just kept us off the course, they should have had us arrested. Remember the plaids, paisleys and stripes.
Gary Player always wore black. In retrospect he always looked classy but at the time Jack and Arnie were wearing some pretty bold colors and patterns.
In 65 my dad just started playing and he invited me to go with him, public courses of course. I lived in Secaucus, NJ. The druggist, MR. Marra at Marra's Drugstore was selling his right handed McGregor starter set for $15. I was left handed but I figured it wouldn't matter. They all matched. My dad said I could wear my school pants and borrow one of his shirts. He was size medium and I was a small so that wouldn't do for me. I had my own money from delivering papers so I took the bus to Two Guys [a sort of Walmart at the time] and I bought these white pants with splattered brown spots all over them and a matching dark brown shirt so I wouldn't look ridiculous [in my own mind] on the course.
good times
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