Masters Tournament vetoes Jason Day's outfits ahead of tournament
'This year they asked because obviously what happened last year'
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — When a man in a green evening jacket tells you your sweater is too loud, you know you’ve made some interesting fashion choices.
That was how we began last year’s story about Jason Day’s headline-making outfits at the Masters. This week, the 37-year-old apparently will have to rely solely on his golf game to turn heads, after the former world No. 1 told the “Dan on Golf” show that Augusta National has vetoed some of this year’s Malbon apparel he had planned to wear.
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“If they would have let us do what we first put the scripting through to them, it would have been a lot crazier than last year, but, you know it’ll be toned down, just because they have a little bit more, they asked to see the scripting before,” Day told Dan Rapaport on the show. “See, the funny thing was that they never asked to see scripting of mine because I’ve always been pretty neutral and down the middle, and this year they asked because obviously what happened last year.”
At last year’s tournament, Day’s baggy pants and garish vest caught the attention of, well, everyone with eyes, but especially the green jackets that run the season’s first major.
“Yeah, they asked me to take it off — the vest off yesterday,” Day said after the third round last year. “Respectfully, you do that because it’s all about the tournament here, and I understand that. I respect the tournament. That’s what we’re here to do is try and play and win the green jacket.”
The vest in question featured giant block letters saying “MALBON GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP” which besides being an eyesore, broke tournament rules that limit the size of branding on a player’s apparel. And on thing Augusta National keeps close tabs on, are the rules.
“What was I trying to do? I don’t know what I was trying to do,” Day explained at the time. “I wasn’t trying to do anything. They just scripted me in it, and I was wearing it. They send you the scripting and say, this is what we want you to wear Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and I’m like, okay.”
It wasn’t okay with the Masters. But it sounds like Day won’t have the same problem this year.
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