Ryder Cup Fashion Preview: Unveiling Team USA's Uniforms

 

Our Mr. Style weighs in on the outfits the Americans will wear this week at Medinah

 

 

This year's uniforms designed by Polo/Ralph Lauren stay true to the red, white and blue, but modernize the looks with some technical fabrics and modern tailoring. Ralph Lauren brings a great deal off experience having designed both winter and summer USA Olympic uniforms. You can expect to see bold graphics, a clean color palette and lots of "zip."
The overall look to me is very modern in materials and construction, and very classic in colors and combinations. It's about time someone designed great red and great white pants!
The players will wear the footwear from the same companies they have been using all year. Count on Tiger Woods wearing the TW 13's he has been sporting all season, and watch for Adidas to give Brandt Snedeker, Dustin Johnson and Jim Furyk some cool color combinations. FootJoy usually makes a limited edition shoe so check out Steve Stricker.
That's not all as the team will have some neat head covers from DJ Langer and the very predictable USA golf bag.
High marks to the Ralph Lauren team for designing a great portfolio of products.

Practice Wardrobe

Practice uniforms showcase great-looking bottoms like these navy pinstripes in tropical weight wool with some stretch. And the USA belt buckle is a neat accessory.

Practice Wardrobe

These red pair are water resistant. Hmm. These might have come in handy at the last Ryder Cup!

 

Practice Wardrobe

The grey trousers in a stretch twill look good enough to wear with a blazer to dinner.

Friday

About as classic as you can get: simple white shirt in technical material that not only wicks moisture but also has Freshguard to eliminate odor. The blue windowpane pant utilizes Coolmax fabric that wicks moisture to keep the body cool and dry.

Saturday

The Day 2 outfit reverses the white-blue combination with a white technical twill pant coupled with a navy-red jersey knit (notice the white engineered stripe on the right shoulder).

Sunday

Of course they would design a red, white and blue striped shirt for the final day! It's bold and graphic and will play well on the course (quick-dry fabric with moisture management, i.e. no sweat marks) and on TV