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August 29, 2009
Leaving the Logos behind: Ryan Moore gives up $300,000 a year to play the golf clubs he likes and wear the clothes he buys himself. Crafty or crazy?
It would be admirable if he dressed well, but he doesn't. He walked past me at Bethpage during the US Open and I thought some tramp and snuck in under the ropes.
posted by JJ at 11:14 AM on August 29, 2009
I think it's admirable even if he's a slob.
posted by rcade at 11:16 AM on August 29, 2009
To one's own self be true...kudos to Ryan...
posted by wildbill1 at 01:32 PM on August 29, 2009
I like it, though I think I'd take the money for the bag. He could donate the money to charity and thus put a spin on the commercialization.
posted by dviking at 11:18 PM on August 29, 2009
Good for him! Stop these fuckers plastering their logos on every single molecule of the fucking planet.
posted by Drood at 11:43 PM on August 29, 2009
If you're wearing clothes you choose, you have every right to dress like a slob. What excuse does John Daly have?
posted by Joey Michaels at 03:52 AM on August 30, 2009
Poor Daly..he can't see straight when he gets dressed..much like Stevie Wonder
posted by wildbill1 at 07:00 AM on August 30, 2009
Alcohol. Usually.
And compared to the photo you linked, Joey, things have got so much worse of late.
![worse](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01399/daly-floral_1399143i.jpg"){kind=link}
I wonder how much of Palmer's decision to wear his own gear is sporting superstition.
posted by JJ at 07:05 AM on August 30, 2009
Not everyone can have the sartorial splendor of Jesper Parnevik.
posted by Ufez Jones at 11:52 AM on August 30, 2009
Drood, I'm with you! This is such a nonstory anyway! Does anyone really pay attention to the logos and decals plastered upon every surface imanginable at sporting events?
posted by Vikesfanh8sfavre at 04:43 PM on August 30, 2009
JJ: Egads, I had no idea things had gotten so bad for Daly. I think he has what George Carlin termed "cancer of the clothes." My heart goes out to him and his loved ones.
posted by Joey Michaels at 02:28 PM on August 31, 2009
I can certainly understand wanting to play with the clubs that I am most comfortable with. I can "maybe understand" not wanting to look like a billboard though I dont see how a little Nike Swoosh on the cap and left breast of the shirt constitute looking like a "NASCAR driver". But for those sums of money I couldnt care less if my golf bag looked like a doodle pad for and advertising exec.