From the brilliant white warm-up jackets of the 1960s to outfits with just way too much brown, the Ryder Cup has seen just about everything.
What are we really looking for when we talk about Ryder Cup fashion? We love the ugly. Oh yes, we love having fun with the over-the-top, gaudy designs. We love poking fun at The Shirt from Justin Leonard’s famous 1999 putt. We live for the weird, uncalled for stripes or the bold colors.
Left: Arnold Palmer and the U.S. team in 1965. Right: Peter Butler and Lionel Platts of Great Britain in the same Ryder Cup. This is the template. But it hardly ever changed through the ’50s and ’60s. V-neck sweaters. Tight collars. Great Britain wore a whole lot of simple cream-colored sweaters every year. It looked great, and they didn’t veer away from it. The U.S. wore simple polos or dark blue sweaters.
This is the first Ryder Cup in which Great Britain became “Great Britain and Ireland” and also the first with a little European color. Are those orange-brown pants under those blue sweaters? And plaid. So much plaid all around. The British team had plaid collars over their sweaters. And I’m 90 percent sure the U.S. uniform assignment was purely, “Bring your plaid pants.” But there were no actual uniform pants. They’re all different.
Also, let’s give an ode to European team style legend Bernhard Langer. He pops off the page in almost all of the ’80s competitions, and I’m not entirely sure he’s wearing the correct thing each day. In foursomes he is wearing a collared shirt while Ken Brown is wearing a turtleneck. On Sunday singles, he might be the only European wearing a white turtleneck under the bright red sweater. It’s a great look, but he might be going rogue.
Lee Westwood, center, walks off a green at the 2010 Ryder Cup flanked by Steve Stricker, left, and Tiger Woods, right. This year is strangely an outlier in the Ryder Cup aesthetics of the 21st century. If the aughts gave us dull and boring, and the last 10 years have given us very solid but uninspiring, 2010 is the year stuck in the middle that gave us fun. I’m not sure all of it quite works, but all of it is interesting and lively.
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