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April 16, 2003; Source: AnyoneForTee Howell !!! tops Order of Merit after Masters | ||||||
AUGUSTA. Charles Howell III has made a stunning start in the AnyoneForTee Order of Merit for best and worst dressed professional golfer in the world - by topping both categories at the Masters.The Masters was the first event to count towards AnyoneForTee's eagerly anticipated year-end Fashion Awards for World Golf – best and worst, men’s and women’s. In addition to its own fashion critiques throughout the year, AnyoneForTee will poll readers around the globe before delivering the verdicts in late 2003 on the highs and lows of golfing sartorial elegance.  Howell III made a stunning debut on the fashion circuit, blitzing everyone on Day One with a white-fronted Callaway sweater covered in black diamonds while the back of the sweater was the orange of an Austin Powers limo. He may have changed suits between rounds, but he still wore diamonds in the afternoon, only this time it was a dreadful white on red affair that made him look like a French tablecloth.James Lawton, sportswriter with UK newspaper The Independent, was moved to write: "The moment you learned that Howell is dressed for golf by Jesper Parnevik's outfitter J. Lindeberg, you knew that he was not going to resemble James Bond at the cocktail hour. But the son of a local surgeon, who learned his golf at the Augusta Country Club across the road, was an alarming sight. The front of his sweater was covered in black diamonds, the back of it a garish orange." 
The love it or hate it proposition, backed up by similar garb on the final days, saw Howell III (or Howell !!! as he may come to be known) take the maximum 4 points in both the best and worst dressed categories - a stunning debut. In the latter sector, the runner-up was David Toms, a sartorial journeyman by Howell's standards, but who distinguished himself by wearing a cap that was only just slightly smaller than his entire head.  Close behind came Leading Amateur Ricky Barnes (pictured above left), whose floral shirt wouldn't have been out of place on Kevin Costner in Tin Cup, while Stuart Appleby started strongly to score a single point with his Pat Cash impersonation on the rain-ruined Thursday (pictured right).  In the best-dressed section, Shingo Katayama narrowly missed out on his first major despite his magnificent tied up cowboy hat and orange shirt on the Saturday that saw him mistaken for an Augusta azalea as he helped look for Pat Perez's ball on No. 13 . Tiger, immaculate in his garb if not his game on the final day, came in third, followed by Mike Weir, who - obviously - made the cut. Well, the green jacket was a nice fit....... | ||||||
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 So who do you think were the best and worst dressed golfers at the Masters, and why? Please send your fashion critique to fashion@anyonefortee.com.To find out more about the AnyoneForTee Fashion Awards for World Golf, click here. Find the Official World Fashion Rankings here. | ||||||
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