TRACKING THE STYLE EVOLUTION OF OUR GENERATION’S GREATEST GOLFER BY MARTY HACKEL TAILORED TIGER I f you look at images of tiger woods from the 1990s, you’ll notice that everything he wore was a little big on him. This was mostly the work
that, but it’s really not the case. Eventually, Tiger’s fits began to flatter his frame more. He lost the pleats and tightened the shirts. Comparing the earli- est images of Tiger on the golf course with the latest images of him in his new label, Sun Day Red, reveals a decades-long evolution that you might have missed if those red shirts were the only ones on your radar. Tiger may look more muscu- lar now than he ever has, but the clothing he’s wearing does his physique far more justice. Now he looks more like the super- hero that he has been for 30 years. Remember, it’s not really what you wear as much as it is how you wear it. If you have any questions about that, take a look at Adam Scott. You can buy his entire outfit on any given day at UNIQLO for a hundred bucks and get change back. It’s not about how much money you spend or about what fancy labels you buy; it’s about wearing the correct size, wearing the correct colours, and putting them all together. If you can do that, you can get away with a multitude of sins. That, or be Tiger Woods.
of his father, Earl, who sized up himself, leaving Tiger swimming in hand-me- downs early on in his amateur career. I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Tiger through the years, and one thing I can tell you about his style that won’t surprise you is that he doesn’t love change. Who could blame him – what- ever he had going on was working. His comfort level with oversized clothes continued into the peak years of his dominance in majors with Tiger emu- lating Michael Jordan’s full-cut trouser style, hence all of these oversized pants they both wore in those years. Tiger’s physique has always resembled that of a Greek god with wide shoulders and a very narrow waist. His mother, Kultida, told him early on that he need- ed to match his belt to his shoes and his hat to his shoes. A lot of golfers think
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