Jack Nicklaus is color blind so his wife Barbara often picked out the clothes he wore on the golf course. Now, major equipment companies are doing the same thing. Sports Illustrated’s special Masters preview issue includes a story that shows the outfits that Tiger Woods (Nike) and Sergio Garcia (Adidas) will wear all four days of the tournament. Tiger, naturally, will be wearing red on Sunday. If he makes the cut, Garcia will be dressed in black and tan after wearing orange, lime green and dark red. At least the Spaniard is not scheduled to wear that Tweety Bird yellow outfit or the baby puke green number he showed up in at the British Open. Apparently the equipment/clothing companies see huge jumps in sales following tournaments as wannabes go out and buy the exact clothes the pros wear. Not surprisingly, Tiger’s outfits for all four days of the Masters, U.S. Open and PGA Championship were “scripted” a year ago. (I guess the weather at the British Open is too unpredictable.) That is done to make supplies are manufactured and shipped to retail outlets in advance of the tournament. Good ol’ Nike also scripts Paul Casey, K.J. Choi, Stewart Cink, Trevor Immelman, Justin Leonard, Grace Park and Michelle Wie. Adidas scripts Garcia, Sean O’Hair and Justin Rose. My only question is whether or not Tabasco scripts Kenny Perry and Woody Austin.
Hitting range balls while wondering whatever happened to Doug Sanders.
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- Mr. Fairway’s love affair with the game of golf began in junior high. He once made his living as a journalist covering high school sports, cops and robbers and politics. Today, Mr. Fairway is a public relations consultant and a widely-published freelance golf writer. His current USGA handicap index is 9.3 and he averages 50-plus rounds a year.