GolfPass Editors' Choice: The best new golf shirts we recommend over $100

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"Look good, play good."

Excusing the intentional poor grammar, it's a statement most golfers find to be true. The night - heck, sometimes the week - before we play a tournament round, a round at a top-100 course or set off on a bucket-list trip, we're all doing the same thing: rifling through our closet and selecting the best-quality shirt(s) we own for the big occasion.

Like virtually everything, golf apparel has gone up in price in recent years. Now, pretty much every higher-end brand's shirts cost $100 or more, even before you tack on the premium many pro shops charge for logoed threads.

We have have had the opportunity to sample a broad range of golf apparel's best brands and their golf shirts, and we've learned a thing or two over the years about which ones deserve your hard-earned dollars, and which you should save for when some pro shop credit is burning a hole in your pocket or skip altogether.

Consider this your upscale golf shirt buying guide:

1. Material madness
After more than a decade perusing the apparel aisles of the PGA Merchandise Show, the clearest realization has been that most golf shirts are virtually the same. They're made of a smooth polyester with some quantity of Elastane or Spandex to add stretchiness. I could blindfold you and ask you to touch golf shirts from 10 different brands and you would be hard-pressed to know they weren't all the same. So much of the appeal of one brand over another comes down to branding, colors and patterns. True differentiation is relatively rare; latching onto a particular golf shirt brand often comes down to aesthetics and vibes, though there are exceptions where brands do develop their own proprietary materials. Be on the lookout for these.

2. Finicky fits
That sizing can vary across a particular apparel category is not a revelation to any savvy shopper, but golf shirts are particularly bewildering. Some boxier-cut brands will feel fine when taking a practice swing but are cut so short that they come untucked constantly. Others are long enough, but perplexingly narrow. Other brands just put me in an XL. I wish there were standards that every brand adhered to, but until such a time, buyers should note return and exchange policies when taking a flyer on a style they are not already familiar with.

This brand, like many golfers, splits time between the New York area and Jupiter Florida, where its southern HQ, called The Bungalow, functions as a cocktail party and showroom space, as I learned at a pre-Cognizant Classic hangout. B.Draddy takes country club styling into the 21st century, with an array of smart solids, stripes and mostly subtle prints and patterns. Their cotton-blend polos are high-quality, with Peruvian pima cotton featuring in many of them, but as a hot-climate golfer, I am particularly impressed with their Draddy Sport material, which is 94% nylon and 6% spandex, with solid stretch and breathability.
Tim's pick: Draddy Sport Captain Cool Polo ($120)
Browse all B.Draddy golf shirts

It's not always the case, but sometimes the more expensive stuff is the really good stuff, too. That has been my experience with this Italian brand that started off making ski wear before pivoting to golf. Whereas many brands use polyester for their golf shirts, Chervó often uses polyamide, which tends to be stronger, more elastic and, crucially for golfers, more efficient at wicking moisture. It is also more expensive, which explains why Chervó golf shirts can top $200 each (though they can be had for less than $150 on sale). That is a big spend regardless of quality, but if you are a hardcore golfer and you subscribe to a quality-over-quantity outlook when it comes to golf apparel, you will be hard-pressed to do better than Chervó, which has developed proprietary fabrics like SUNBLOCK, DRYMATIC and more. Touring pros repping the brand include DP World Tour players Matteo Manassero and Johannes Veerman on the men's side and Jenny Shin and Alexandra Försterling on the women's side.
Browse all Chervó golf shirts: $106-$230.

Greyson has made significant strides seemingly every year, with its wolf head logo appearing on more and more recreational and pro golfers of late. Justin Thomas and Jon Rahm are among the major champions who wear Greyson; Cam Smith raised eyebrows when he wore a navy Greyson blazer during a practice round for the 2025 Masters. That sense of irony and cool is a thread through their golf shirts, which leans on colors and prints that are just on the tasteful side of loud.
Browse all Greyson golf shirts: $108-$168.

One of golf apparel's biggest recent success stories, Holderness & Bourne is surging into pro shops and retail outlets across golf with a look that hews more traditional and modest, with mostly solids and stripes with in lighter tones. Their new fabric, Airation, is excellent for hot days, as it includes perforations that amp up breathability. My one note on H&B is that while their fit is much truer to size than it was originally, their shirts are cut on the slightly narrower side. If you usually sit between sizes and like a looser fit, you may want to go up a size from your usual.
Tim's pick: The Springer Shirt (Airation): $115
Browse all Holderness & Bourne golf shirts: $110-$145

Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, this California brand has gone bi-coastal, with golfers enjoying its aesthetic, backed by a dude-with-surfboard logo that communicates a casual attitude. We debated whether to include Johnnie-O in this piece or our buying guide for golf shirts under $100, but because its performance golf shirts start at $98 - which hits triple digits with tax in most states - we're including them here, although some of their polos sell for less than $90. Their Featherweight fabric is almost impossibly thin and light - great for really hot days.
Tim's pick: Featherweight Perdormance Polo - Glidey: $110
Browse all Johnnie-O golf shirts: $89-$128

It's appropriate that this North Carolina-based brand uses a crown for its logo, because it is perhaps the king of this category, at least for now. It has morphed into a lifestyle brand but maintains its golf heritage, holding a place of refinement and ubiquity in apparel that reminds of Titleist's own image on the equipment side. It is not surprising that many Titleist staffers wear Peter Millar. Their Summer Comfort golf shirt material has long been a go-to for me. Those shirts fit the way I want them to, they come in a seemingly unending array of colors and they launder very well, even after duty on numerous punishingly hot golf days.
Browse all Peter Millar Summer Comfort golf shirts: $98-$115.

Billionaire Bob Parsons' freewheeling golf company is into apparel as well as golf clubs, golf balls and other accessories, and uses snaps instead of buttons as a signature feature of its golf shirts. Some styles sell for under $100 but the majority of their offerings tip into three digits, so we're putting them in this list. Their stark black-and-white aesthetic dominates, but they're not afraid of splashes of color, either.
Browse all PXG golf shirts: $95-$145.

Two friends and former University of Washington golf teammates started this brand after years of working for larger companies. As a result, Radmor has become the Pacific Northwest's upscale golf apparel brand of record recently, with "BobRad," an anthropomorphized golf ball peeking out of a cup as its main logo.
Browse all Radmor golf shirts: $105-$115.

Also based in North Carolina, Stitch came at golf apparel from a different direction, starting with headcovers and accessories before finding its way into golfers' drawers and closets. One type of golf shirt Stitch does very well is a polyester piqué fabric, with enough holes in it to really breathe on scorching hot days. Sometimes sales can drive prices for certain shirts well under $100, but the vast majority of Stitch's offerings put them in the higher-dollar category.
Browse all Stitch golf shirts: $98-$118.

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July 27, 2018

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