Letter: Dressing down for kilted golfers
Many of these clubs had no stated dress code. Indeed the smaller courses of the Scottish Highlands and Islands would have had no officials present to enforce such a measure. Yet in all these years I have never seen anyone wearing a kilt for play. In other words real golfers consider it unsuitable attire for the purpose so your news article (5 September) and appended comments by Martin Dempster were a bit unfair on the club and the tongue-in-cheek remarks by Professor Purdie a more appropriate response.
Neil Munro's "droll freend Erchie" would perhaps have made a better fist of it, say along the following lines: "If the guid doctor weeshed tae mak an exhibeeshun o' himsel then he should hae been alloo'd tae dae sae - efter the usual army-type inspection of coorse. I mean by that a nether garments examination by mirror or polished tae cap at parade on the first tee."
Dr A McCormick, Dumfries