Just a gripe: Since when did wearing a spotter shirt become acceptable for tournament play? I know that this is relatively minor - but those shirts came out in the first place as a disc golf thing when Discraft started handing out those and the dayglo orange shirts to spotters at events. And now? Everyone considers them tournament acceptable colors, companies release polos and drifits in the color...
Seriously, all tournament long you're buried in the woods, or you're taking a putt.... and where you'd normally never ever notice that guy 300 feet away, or you'd never see the people walking up the fairway through that patch of trees: you've got flashes of super-reflective dayglo greens and oranges lighting it up.
I got a hat that color once. I wore it to a few events, and then realized just how distracting it was. Now it stays home. I wear it when I am going out or going to class... Not for organized cash rounds of golf!
It doesn't cause me to miss strokes, I step off the putt or shot, re-set, and go. But it IS a completely ridiculous and unnecessary bit of discourtesy to the rest of the people playing the event. We aren't there to stare at you in your eye-raping shirt. We're there to focus on and play hot rounds of golf.
Seriously, all tournament long you're buried in the woods, or you're taking a putt.... and where you'd normally never ever notice that guy 300 feet away, or you'd never see the people walking up the fairway through that patch of trees: you've got flashes of super-reflective dayglo greens and oranges lighting it up.
I got a hat that color once. I wore it to a few events, and then realized just how distracting it was. Now it stays home. I wear it when I am going out or going to class... Not for organized cash rounds of golf!
It doesn't cause me to miss strokes, I step off the putt or shot, re-set, and go. But it IS a completely ridiculous and unnecessary bit of discourtesy to the rest of the people playing the event. We aren't there to stare at you in your eye-raping shirt. We're there to focus on and play hot rounds of golf.