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(Latest update -- July 12, 2011)

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Chapeau Noir contributes to PGATour.com under the pseudonym "The Man In The Black Hat".

Check out the Black Hat PGATour.com column archive.

Watson on his fun on-course style

December 21, 2011 -- With the 2012 PGA TOUR season just weeks away, the Man In The Black Hat thought it to be a good time to bring the fashion file up to date, starting with an examination of the style exploits of Bubba Watson.

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Canadian dispatch: Host country boasts hopefuls in RBC Canadian Open

July 21, 2011 -- With the PGA TOUR in Canada this week for the RBC Canadian Open, PGATOUR.COM decided to ask its Canadian correspondent, the Man In The Black Hat (that's me, aka Chapeau Noir), to give us his take on the state of golf in his home country (for realz!).

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What Ashworth has in the works

July 13, 2011 -- Just when you thought it was safe to sneak in a quick nine in that tattoo-inspired 'polo' shirt, The Man In The Black Hat returns from hibernation this week to bring you a much needed TOUR style update. Since our last update in April, additional evidence of the importance golf fashion plays on the PGA TOUR has come to light.

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Hybrid golf shoe solutions gain traction

April 13, 2011 -- One of the earliest references to a spiked golf shoe was published in 1857 in the Scottish periodical 'The Golfer's Manual'. The manual simply advised those new to the game to "wear stout shoes roughed with small nails or sprigs to walk safely over slippery ground." Concerns over the quality of putting surfaces resulting from shoe "sprigs" soon followed.

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Poulter details big plans for clothing company

March 22, 2011 -- If you sit back in your club chair and put your feet up on that ottoman for a moment to think about it, golf pretty much stands alone in allowing players to demonstrate their personal style to a level that can't be matched by athletes in team sports.

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Is what's good for Bill Murray good for you?

February 17, 2011 -- Everybody loves Bill Murray, and why not? He's personable, and of course he's funny, and perhaps more importantly for most of us, he lives up to every expectation we have of the man who brought us the superintendent stylings of one Carl Spackler in Caddyshack.

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Giveaways, shoe trends and more

February 2, 2011 -- Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the golf course, wearing those double-pleated khakis and that oversized mercerized cotton polo that you received for participating in that corporate outing in 1998, the Man In The Black Hat is back for 2011.

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Lorne Rubenstein

Globe and Mail golf columnist and author of no less than 11 golf books, Lorne Rubenstein had this to say about chapeaunoirgolf.com...

Lorne Rubenstein"Nowadays many players know exactly what they'll be wearing each day of the tournament. One interesting website tracks their outfits and the planning that goes into the selection. Chapeaunoirgolf.com, meant to enhance your reading and viewing pleasure. Spend a few minutes with this website, and soon you will be planning your own outfits for the coming season."

-- Lorne Rubenstein, April 5, 2011

ClubLink Life

According to ClubLink Life, "He’s haberdashery’s answer to David Feherty...or maybe not. he’s definitely patriotic! Meet Mike McAllister."

Winter 2010: A golf clotheshorse's guide to the modern art of self-gifting

At this time of year, holiday truisms are trotted out for your consideration more often than your aunt’s dry-as-dust fruitcake. When it comes to gift giving, among the most popular is the adage that “it is always better to give than to receive.”

Bah, humbug.

ClubLink Life | Winter 2010

Fall 2010: Taking The Great Canadian Golf Apparel Challenge

So there i was, standing in front of my closet at just after sunrise on the last Saturday in June, making an uninspired attempt to figure out what to wear.

 ClubLink Life | Fall 2010

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« 14stix.com Rocks The Discount House - Daily! »

Chapeau Noir has both an eye for fashion and an eye for the deal, so there is no way to overlook the tremendous daily deals to be found over at 14stix.com.

Click to get golf's best daily deal at 14.stix.com.As with other popular deal-of-the-day sites, 14stix.com offers its clients excellent name brand products at deep discounts, ranging anywhere from 40 to 60 percent off original retail (and sometimes more).

On any given day you can find sweet deals on top name golf shirts, outerwear, accessories, and yes, even golf equipment. After all, Chapeau Noir must not only look good on the course, he must have a few finely crafted pieces of equipment at the ready to show he's got the shots.

Even if you don't find a deal that its right for you (but mostly you will), 14stix.com is worth visiting daily. One day you may find an essential Ashworth polo for $17.99 (70 percent off), the next day a Nickent hybrid to cheat the headwind at a ridiculously low price.

14stix.com has found its way into Chapeau Noir's morning internets routine if only to get a dose of the unique and entertaining 14stix.com product descriptions.

Look no further than today's lowdown on the Adidas Core Performance Leather Belt ($17.99 - 64% off retail kids! Only three left at post time) for a shining example.

"One thing that we'll never understand is a guy that doesn't wear a belt with jeans, pants (except Sansabelt pants because they're amazing) or shorts.  Do these sans-a-belters think belt loops are mere decorations, devoid of functional and sartorial design?  They are not thumb hooks or hitching posts to keep your watch or wallet safe.  They're there to help keep your pants up, which is sort of important in golf (not so much in skateboarding, or rapping).

A sweet belt is at the core of a solid golf ensemble.  The Adidas Core Performance Leather Belt might look pretty un-sweet, but that's until you figure out that it's really part Transformer.  Ok, so it doesn't actually transform - it's still a belt and not a Camaro that will score you dates with Megan Fox.  But the matte-silver, single-prong buckle is removable, which means that it'll work with other belt buckles that have a bit more to say - like this one, for example."

You will certainly agree that anyone who can work sansabelt pants and Megan Fox into the same product description is certainly bookmark material.

Are you bummed that you missed out on the Adidas Core Performance Belt? Sure you are, who wouldn't be? Maybe next time. Best thing is, the 'next time' at 14stix.com just happens to be tomorrow!

For even more equipment and apparel related entertainment, and we all know we need as much of that as we can possibly get, turn to the 14stix.com blog. Top marks for blogs other than his own are not given out lightly by Chapeau Noir, but this blog makes clicking links feel like a far less arduous chore than it really is!

Bottom Line

Visit daily, buy often. 14stix.com rocks the golf discount house. Who dares, wins!

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