About Us
We Wear Golf History
Rules of Golf exists because the greatest era of golf fashion does not belong in a drawer. It belongs on a fairway. On a bar stool. On someone who knows their Seve from their Norman and their 1997 Masters from their Sunday Red!
We find the vintage golf clothing that defined the game. The Tiger Woods-era Nike knits and mock necks. The iconic TaylorMade windbreakers. The Ping polos with the embroidered Karsten Ping man. The prime Sergio Garcia Adidas golf logos and reversibles, that nobody makes anymore. We bring it back to the people who appreciate what it represents.
What We Stand For
Golf has a heritage problem. Not a lack of it: an abundance of it that the sport keeps trying to modernise away! We exist to push back on that. Every find we sell is from an era, a tournament or a player that shaped the game! But vintage doesn't have to stand alone it can elevate anything you wear. When you wear vintage golf clothing, you are not just making a fashion choice, it's about feeling good, looking good and playing better!
How We Source
Everything is sourced personally, from across the UK, Europe and the United States. From private collections to rare online finds! Each item is inspected for condition, photographed and described in full. We do not hide wear, vintage wear and colours have their own style. If the find is exceptional, you will know about that too!
We measure the chest and length on everything. Vintage sizing is a little different, mainly oversized even by modern standards! And this just ensures you know exactly what you are getting before it arrives.
The Brands
Nike Golf from the Tiger era. Ping from the Trevino and Norman years. TaylorMade from the late 1990s and early 2000s. Adidas from the Sergio Garcia years. Ashworth and Pringle, Sunderland of Scotland - heritage knitwear houses that dressed the greatest players in British and European golf. We source across eras and styles, but the heart of the archive is 1985 to 2005, the peak years of Tour golf fashion before performance fabric changed everything.
You will learn from the first vintage item you buy, no brand makes it like they used to! They might revive styles, logos and designs, but they can't replicate the quality when they used to manufacture in; Thailand, Hong Kong, Macau, Philippines, Mexico, Peru, Indonesia or how they did things like reversible clothing like they used do!
The Clubhouse
The Rules of Golf is a clubhouse for vintage golf culture. We write about the history. We share the context. We cover the players who wore these clothes and the moments that made them worth remembering. If you want to know what Tiger wore at Augusta in 1997, we can tell you. If you want to know why Seve's knitwear became shorthand for a whole era of European golf, we have written about that too.