Golf dress code: when is a neckline too plunging?
I never wanted to play golf. For months, my friend Katie tried to convince me to join her in taking lessons, and my answer was always the same: “I’m a football player. I’m not a golfer.” I just didn’t see how I could belong in a world that seemed to offer a heady mixture of racism, elitism and sexism. From a distance, all I could see were barriers, especially golf’s obsession for rules and...
read moreMary, Queen of Golf
The New Year lunch was the first event I hosted this year, and it went well, but I have to apologise to our Scottish president and to the rest of the women’s section for spreading false rumours when I said a few words. Indeed, I suggested that the game of golf was brought to Scotland by their auld allies, namely my nation of birth, the mighty French, via Mary Queen of Scots. Wrong. The game did...
read moreYour beard is bad for golf
In this interview, Andrew Johnston, known as “Beef”, explains that when he grew his beard, he was told that he should shave it, because it gave golf a bad image. He says: “I grew it as a bit of fun and [my beard] was big. When I went to Spain I was actually going to get rid of it that week (…) but my social media went mad and I had quite a few messages saying like...
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