« Day Three: All Your Base (Layers) Belong To Us »

Chilly temperatures greeted the morning foursomes, and as a result, thermal base layers made a more prominent appearance on day three of the Presidents Cup at Harding Park in San Francisco, while sweaters and their armless cousins, the sweater vest, obscured the much anticipated weekend Greg Normal Apparel on the International side.

Team captains Fred Couples and Greg Norman apparently completed a clandestine deal overnight Friday, allowing Team USA to pull argyle patterns from the polo shirts worn by the Internationals on Thursday and Friday for use in cozy warm sweaters on Saturday morning. Some players tucked their collars, while others let it fly, and it seems that Tiger Woods put his crinkly collar issues of previous days behind him.

Ryo Ishikawa moved his Presidents Cup buckle to a white belt, while Mike Weir eschewed the Presidents Cup buckle altogether.

Fyo Ishikawa sporting his Swan sunglasses (Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images North America)

Speaking of Ryo, at just 18 years of age, he is a young man of impeccable style, and attention to detail - he has what could be considered a quirky habit of dressing his driver head cover in the same color scheme as his own for a give day. I was keen to know who his sunglass supplier was, and tracked it down - Swans, a division of Japanese optical company Yamamoto Kogaku Industries. The Swans USA web site is currently heavy on the winter sport goggle market.

Elin Woods kept it up for yet another day with the wilderness camp hat, but 10 years from now women will look back on the big sunglass trend and will ask their girlfriends, "Why did you ever let  me wear those ridiculous bug eyes!?!". This is much better, despite the hat.

Here's a close up of Anthony Kim's belt buckle. Kim's buckles are pure custom jobs of course, from Elevee. Details here.

Here's hoping that the temperatures warm up enough today to entice the players to remove a layer to reveal the complete apparel package.