As a member of the artisans’ club at Royal Ashdown Forest, your fixture list tends to take you to the kind of clubs that would long have been bastions of the compulsory long sock with shorts. Royal Ashdown, itself, would certainly have ranked among them historically.
Now, most, but not all, such clubs have relented and relaxed things to varying degrees, with Royal Ashdown’s website saying: “Tailored shorts may be worn on the course and, in keeping with the traditions of Royal Ashdown, long golf socks are preferred.”
