Peter Millar’s Latest Chic Golf Clobber

My skin prickles… my fingers begin to tingle and twitch, and I can feel the hairs on the back of my golf gloves stand up. Once a year, I get the golfing goosebumps, and even the Velcro on my gloves gets goosebumps.

The season’s everyday luxury new arrivals from Peter Millar in North Carolina are the golfer’s equivalent to the release of a new Glenmorangie or Islay expression to the Scottish single malt whisky connoisseur. The occasion releases the same effervescing endorphins as the anticipation of a new Bollinger.

I am left dazed and transfused, quite literally, and feel not a little of the Boom Boom Transfusion Effect.

Peter Millar was founded in 2001 by Greg Oakley, Chet Sikorski, and Chris Knott. Its name was inspired by an inscription Knott discovered on an antique lawn bowls ball his mother gave him. In 2005, Scott Mahoney, a former executive at Ralph Lauren, teamed with Sea Island Company to purchase Peter Millar, becoming CEO.

Peter Millar sportswear attire and performance apparel are now worn by PGA tour star Harris English, Kevin Kisner, and Brandt Snedeker. 

I still have a lot of time for Original Penguin caviar and Chicago’s Tropical Bros Dad Bod whatever-activity-not-just golf-state-of-mind shirts, and I’m trying to dress in a more millennial way which means younger. I am not that insecure in my sexuality or about golf handicap to shun crushed cranberry, Garden Floral, or two-tone lilac tux, or scared of getting into light heather with Peter Millar’s Constellation golf polo.

North Carolina’s Peter Millar is one of the best sportswear designers. If you are that in-between body shape, neither slim nor quite obese, and caught between unflattering horizontals and more flattering vertical there is Millar’s new Offset Stripe, but mail-order North Carolina also has Ready Golf which has a range of shorts if you want to emblazon yourself with dancing gophers, fried eggs, beer bottles, lap dancers, bananas and bacon rashers. It’s hip to be square and look like a  stained glass window.

You need some front thought to get away with Plaid Electric, Diamond Dudes, Diamonds in The Rough, and stallion strides. Brexit Remainers might like the Eurostar pants. The Royal & Awesome brand is based in Scotland’s golf country. In Gullane on the east coast, near Edinburgh. Director Graeme Smeaton offers styles “for pars and bars” in golf shirts and patterned pants. He’ll dress you in your national flag as well as a public art space with his Graffiti shirt.

No golfer is fashion ”uninterested”, nowadays, it’s all performance fabric and street style, logos, tapered trousers, four-way stretch UPF 50+ sun protection shirts detailed snap up collars, summer comfort blue batik, and ditsy tropical patterns, like the “John Daly Everyday Polo” look or Waste Management Open look. 

Durham’s Peter Millar is one of the best sportswear designers. You can choose between being “Shipfaced“, “Geometric” or, if you are caught between unflattering horizontals and more flattering vertical the new eye-catching and forgiving/masking Offset Stripe.

One-stop course-to-city golfing shop Peter Millar, which also owns G/Fore, is also good for Hyplight Glide sneakers and all-weather on and off-course essentials like Lava Wash long sleeves and half-zips. 

Pants aren’t so important, at my age, I know my chino needs. What I do want is an active waistband, what I don’t want is a concealed fly. I know I feel better and a lot safer in sand than cream, but I am curious what underwear Scotty Schaeffler wears and why he doesn’t merchandise them. They obviously work.

It’s not cheating distracting your playing partner at the top of his backswing on the first tee with a sleek design and cutting-edge fabrications. It’s all part of the game, standing in his eye line while he putts so he can’t help but notice your elevated apparel and its refined casual aesthetics. Get your style in full swing. Live a Life of style and substance. Millar up. Who cares about the tops, slices, shanks, the way Out of Bounds and three putts from within ten feet.  You look like a million dollars, even if you don’t earn it every week.