What do you wear to the range?

[ghalfaire]

Since most courses around here don't enforce the dress code on the driving range I too often look homeless while just practicing.  Bothers the Mrs. but doesn't seem to bother anyone else I see.

[Buckeyebowman]

It depends upon where I am and when I'm there. Like another poster said, it can be sloppy up here early in the year, so there's no sense in dressing nice. I'm not a pro, so no clothing company is giving me free stuff! And If I'm just going out to practice, I'll dress any way I please. There's a range nearby where you can back up your vehicle to the tee with cooler of beer in it, and the owner doesn't care! Well, as long as you give him one! If I'm at a fancy, shmancy  course with a range and am warming up, I'll dress accordingly. When practicing dress as you like. When playing dress like you should.

[Ernest Jones]

I've worn everything from jeans and a grateful dead t-shirt to full golf attire to full business suit with the jacket taken off. Who cares, it's the range. 

[jsgolfer]

Clothes, 

 

shorts and collared shirt during spring/summer/fall

pants and collared shirt and probably a jacket during winter months

[boogielicious]

8 hours ago, Ernest Jones said:

I've worn everything from jeans and a grateful dead t-shirt to full golf attire to full business suit with the jacket taken off. Who cares, it's the range. 

I hope you didn't soil that t-shirt! 

Depends on where I am traveling from and the time of year. After work, I will wear my work clothes, polo and khakis or change to shorts if it is hot. From home, I will wear more athletic clothes if I am not going to play. In the summer, I will sweat so I change into clothes appropriate for that.

[Yukari]

More often than not I'll wear a golf attire unless it was a spur of the moment decision.

[ppine]

why would you care what other people you will never meet do at a driving range?

[newtogolf]

Stand alone range - really casual, sweat pants or shorts with sweat shirt or tee shirt.  

Golf Course range - standard weather appropriate golf attire.  

[Hardspoon]

1 hour ago, ppine said:

why would you care what other people you will never meet do at a driving range?

Ever since I was 8 years old, I've had a strange obsession with what strangers are wearing. Sometimes, I sit on a street corner and photograph people as they walk by, and then go home and assemble spreadsheets cataloging their outfits. I use this for sophisticated statistical analysis, comparing hair color with factors such as tie width and lapel width. Since I now live in a more residential area, I'm forced to rely more on online research, so I have started going to a variety of forums, establishing myself with a couple hundred friendly posts over the course of a year, and then casually asking questions about what people wear for the activity that each respective forum focuses on (golf, in this case). This thread has been a fantastic source of data so far!

(It's either THAT, or I simply thought my wife's comment was amusing, and figured I'd post in a forum to start a discussion.)

[ppine]

You are amusing.  Thanks for the two choices.

[Lihu]

2 hours ago, ppine said:

why would you care what other people you will never meet do at a driving range?

Ordinarily, no. I don't really care. Then I noticed that the people I often get paired up with are on the range.

One day, I went to the range in essentially my pajamas, hit a few balls then went home.

2 weeks later I got paired up with some people, and they mentioned I was the person in the undergarment t shirt and shorts with the tousled unwashed hair in a foreign language I am familiar.

I dress for golf, now...

[Buckeyebowman]

What are you wearing, Jake from State Farm?

[gregsandiego]

On 3/19/2016 at 11:21 AM, Hardspoon said:

Topic inspired by my wife telling me I "look homeless" as I left the house to go to the (public) driving range.

I usually just wear my workout clothes - since it's cold right now, that's a pair of beat-up sweatpants and a hoodie.  I'm wondering how many people actually wear "golf clothes" even when it's a public range.

Actually I like your wife's comment and it made me pause.

I usually wear shorts and a t-shirt.But you know this is my home course where I practice. I really don't want the staff and people I know to think I look cheap-ass.

I actually threw away all my jeans last year when someone i respect told me that back in his day "only farmers wore jeans".

We don't have to look snooty, but we shouldn't look like the welfare line either. I vote for looking respectable either at the range or the course. 

 

 

 

[mvmac]

Usually something like this

 

[krupa]

 

 

At the range, I wear whatever leg-clothes I have on at the time (khakis, jeans, shorts) and usually a golf shirt.

Edited March 21, 2016 by krupa

[pganapathy]

Always golf attire irrespective of where I play

[Pete]

Jeans, t shirt, whatever.

I never wear golf shoes when at the range. Always trainers. I wonder if there is a benefit to practising wearing golf shoes?

Edited March 21, 2016 by Pete

[jkelley9]

6 minutes ago, Pete said:

Jeans, t shirt, whatever.

I never wear golf shoes when at the range. Always trainers. I wonder if there is a benefit to practising wearing golf shoes?

You're most certainly a better golfer than I, but I wear my golf shoes to the range because a lot of my instructed swing is from trusting the follow through. I've been told to focus on the feel of that left foot left sole weight transfer feels in that follow through, which (for me) feels completely different in my golf shoes vs anything else. That's why I always wear them. Even though practically speaking there is no added benefit. They're made to not slip and slide all over the course in the early morning dew conditions, or playing in wet conditions I think

Edit: Also, I wear the FJ superlites. So when comparing to my normal walkin' around shoes they are completely different

Edited March 21, 2016 by jkelley9