How to Wear a Golf Shirt, According to Style Pros

For many people the golf shirt is the de facto work uniform. For others it might serve as a trusty look for a Friday Happy Hour, or the ready-to-go throw-on shirt for running around town. The ever-versatile golf shirt is all those things and more. You don’t have to play golf to wear one, but you should know what makes them different and how to best work them into your routine.

The roots of the golf shirt spring from the world of tennis, and, specifically, the English tradition of tennis players wearing “all whites” as the sport’s standard uniform. Both tennis players and golfers wore button-down oxford shirts—and often ties—when playing. This denoted a certain sense of class and place in society. The look might have pleased the high-society types, but it didn’t do much for comfort or perf