Whatever Shall I Wear?…Going Golfing For The First Time

by Lee. Reeves

As women, we’ve come a long way, baby. Now it’s time to go a bit farther.

Stepping back in history, I remember having stars in my eyes when my man first asked me to accompany him to the golf course. To think: big ‘ol HE wanted little ‘ol ME to walk around the course and into the winner’s circle…with him! I envisioned us charting sea-green pastures together. In my mind’s ear, I could hear his golfing buddies congratulate his every stroke, while admitting their own faults and failures as they missed green after green. I could just see myself applauding as he mastered every shot and conquered every hole. Mercy. I don’t know what I was drinking back then, but one day on a golf course sobered me up pretty quick.

It won’t take you long to realize that this article is not written for the golfer. Rather, it is geared toward that golfer’s companion: the one that walks or sits for hours, watching glassy-eyed as the player whacks away at a little white sphere. We know that golfers have rules to follow. They also dress and act a certain way. And they know how to walk a golf course, having learned their etiquette from other golfers. Conversely, many companions are non-golfers. Be that as it may, they, too, have rules to follow and need to dress and act in a certain way.

Honey, if you have never been on a golf course, do yourself a favor and read this first before you travel out onto 7,000 yards of uncharted grass. And if you have followed your companion around the greens before, you might find some similarities in what I pen here. By the way, if you can identify at all, please write and tell me so. (Everyone needs somebody in his or her “amen corner”). Read more