Fashion Blog: TigerβS Tight FitΒ Β by Corthing
While Sunday's final round of the U.S. Open presented compelling golf, the duel that unfolded between eventual champion Angel Cabrera and runner-up Tiger Woods presented a major contrast in styles. It was a riveting juxtaposition.
Tiger is ripped, body by Jake, consumes energy drinks, runs for fun and busts it seriously long off the tee.
Angel Cabrera, whose nickname is "El Pato," (Spanish for The Duck) has a beers-in-regulation build, smokes cigs on the back nine ⦠and busts it seriously long off the tee.
While Tiger was occasionally seen sweating, you get the feeling he longs for the day when U.S. Open final rounds were contested over 36 holes on one day. And while Cabrera didn't look fatigued on Sunday, if it had been hotter or more humid (as in U.S. Opens past) the guy might have needed to be short-roped up some of the elevated greens.
Astute observers have always known that the best golfer doesn't always win. Now we also know that the best-conditioned golfer doesn't, either. Given so many other variables (pressure, bounces, the rub of the green), the limits of training are apparently finite. If Woods' conditioning advantage over Cabrera might be described as monumental, well, it certainly didn't help Tiger hit it any closer to the pin or snake in any more putts Sunday. To his credit, of course, Tiger did outplay the other 150-odd players in the field.
What does all this mean for fashion? Well, Woods wore a performance mock T-shirt Sunday, specifically a seamless suspension short sleeve mock neck that is 86 percent polyester, 11 percent nylon and three percent spandex. That spandex-nylon fiber component is fitting considering Woods' fitness regimen. In fact, it was a tad too fitting, in my opinion.
Nike, for whom little at this level is left to coincidence, and Tiger clearly know that this kind of micro-fit allows Woods' every ripple and nipple to show through as the world's most fit golfer contorts through his swing and athletic follow-through.
If the point is that Tiger could be a Calvin Klein underwear model, consider the point made as of the 2007 U.S. Open.
Cabrera, meanwhile, wore something far looser, a Ping Collection polo shirt that might be filed under "a loose shirt, like a hot putter, covers a multitude of sins."
That's not to knock Cabrera. Physique and fitness are not simply what we make of them, but heriditary traits. And there's no denying the man played brilliantly and without peer in making his way to the trophy in one of golf's great championships.
DRIVER ERROR: Of all the early miscues, blunders and missteps in Sunday's final round of the U.S. Open - Aaron Baddeley's triple bogey at the first and Stephen Ames' front nine 40 come to mind - none was more egregious than Walter W. Driver Jr.'s fashion faux pas.
Why? Because Driver, the president of the U.S. Golf Association, had plenty of time to consider what he was doing and hardly faced the competitive pressures visited upon the likes of Baddeley or Ames.
Driver appeared early in NBC's telecast for a chat with golf anchor Dan Hicks. What he said about the U.S. Open course set-up and Oakmont as a venue was pretty much what you'd expect. The way he was dressed was the sartorial equivalent of a double bogey.
I'm referring to his decision not to wear a necktie on-air, appearing instead in an open button-down collar and rumpled white shirt under a blazer. Excuse me, sir, but it's your championship and your organization that places etiquette - on the course, in the clubhouse, by visiting patrons (especially among those sometimes unruly patrons) - nearly on a level with the rules of golf. As president, you're the face of the organization.
In contrast, all of NBC's on-air crew (not counting the on-course foot soldiers) were properly attired given the gravity of the proceedings: the final round of a U.S. Open on Father's Day. With apologies to the Super Bowl, this pretty much counts as a secular high holy day, right up there with the second Sunday in April.
So, appropriately, Hicks and Johnny Miller were both in summer-colored neckties, pink and yellow, respectively, with blue jackets, or maybe even blue suits. Bob Costas and on-air reporter Tim Rosaforte made sober statements in pin-striped suits, dress shirts and ties. That looked about right. Jimmy Roberts, NBC's on-air essayist, had a coat and tie on when he appeared at the end of the round. Earlier, Roberts had been in a golf shirt and shorts but that was as a clever kicker to a feature highlighting Forrest Fezler's famous flouting of the USGA's own standards when he wore shorts on the 18th hole of the 1983 Open at Oakmont.
Not to overstate the point, but Driver (Stanford, Texas Law, King & Spalding LLP, Goldman Sachs) doesn't strike me as the kind of individual who would like someone - a guest at a club where he belongs (Pine Valley, Augusta National, Peachtree Golf Club) - stepping out of line by, say, changing spikes in the parking lot, having a shirttail hanging out on the first tee, or wearing
substandard golf attire through the clubhouse or in the dining room.
Thankfully, and not at all surprisingly, Driver recovered as he was seen briefly in coat and tie on the 18th for the trophy presentation.
SHORT GAME: The USGA's "random" pairings have, for years, made for a kind of golf version of Jeopardy: Why are these guys paired
together? Some are easy such as Spaniards Jose Maria Olazabal, Sergio Garcia and Pablo Martin, and the traditional pairing of the reigning U.S. Open, British Open and U.S. Amateur champions. This Open saw the Thursday-Friday pairing of Ian Poulter, Ryan Moore and Shingo Katayama, all men who put nearly as much emphasis on their dress as they do their play â¦
Baddeley, who faded quickly on Sunday, looked as good as he played on Saturday, when he shot 70 and wore pants that were beyond plaid, and so bold they bordered on tartan-tablecloth. That's part of the look we've come to expect from Baddeley, who wears Munsingwear. Munsingwear, to its credit, has been able to mine many great patterns and silhouettes, reincarnating the brand with a hipper-than-thou spirited retro feel.
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