25 Summer Golf Outfits for Women

Summer golf is the season the clothes are designed for, which makes it the easiest to dress for and the easiest to overthink. Most of what goes wrong is a fabric choice rather than a styling one: a jersey polo that clings by the fourth hole, or a white trouser that turns out to be see through in direct sun.

The outfits below are the ones I actually reach for between June and August. Light colours, woven or knitted fabrics with air in them, and hems that stay out of wet morning grass. Nothing here needs a jacket. If the temperature climbs past comfortable, the hot weather list goes further, and the spring edit covers the shoulder season on either side.

One buying note that costs nothing: hold a white trouser up to a window before you buy it. Our guide to the best golf apparel covers the pieces worth spending on.

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#1: White Polo with a Navy Skort

A white polo with a navy skort. The summer default, and the reason it never goes away is that it works at any club, in any light, with any shoe you own.
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#2: Coral Polo with White Shorts

A coral polo with white shorts. Coral is the summer colour that flatters almost everyone, and white below keeps the whole outfit reading as light rather than loud.
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#3: Striped Polo with a Pleated Skort

A striped polo above a pleated skort. Pleats move with the swing where a straight cut fights it, and stripes are the pattern that never dates in golf wear.
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#4: Mint Green Polo with Beige Shorts

A mint polo with beige shorts. Mint has been the colour of the last few summers in golf and it earns it, because it behaves like a neutral beside warm beige.
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#5: Navy Golf Dress with a White Belt

A navy golf dress with a white belt. One decision, nothing to tuck, and the belt is what stops a plain dress from reading as a uniform.
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#6: Light Blue Sun Shirt with White Capris

A pale blue sun shirt with white capris. Capris are the sensible middle on a morning that starts cool and ends hot, which most summer rounds do.
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#7: Yellow Polo with Navy Shorts

A yellow polo with navy shorts. Yellow is the most visible colour on a course, useful in a busy summer field, and navy grounds it so it never tips fluorescent.
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#8: Floral Skort with a Plain White Top

A floral skort under a plain white polo. Print below, quiet above. Choose a print with real space in it, because dense florals turn to mud from a distance.
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#9: Sage Polo with White Trousers

A sage polo with white trousers. Sage sits beautifully against a course in high summer, and white trousers are cooler than most people expect if the fabric is right.
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#10: Sleeveless Polo with a White Skort

A sleeveless polo with a white skort. The lightest thing in the category, best on a course with shade, and worth pairing with sun sleeves if there is none.
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#11: Pink Polo with Grey Shorts

A pink polo with grey shorts. Pink next to grey is softer than pink next to white, and grey hides a dusty summer course better than any pale neutral.
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#12: White Sun Hoodie with a Navy Skort

A white sun hoodie over a navy skort. Thinner than a t shirt, hood up for the exposed holes, and it ends the sunscreen problem on the neck entirely.
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#13: Turquoise Polo with White Shorts

A turquoise polo with white shorts. Turquoise holds its colour in strong summer light where pastels wash out, and it reads sharply against green from a distance.
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#14: Plaid Skort with a Cream Polo

A plaid skort with a cream polo. Golf's oldest pattern, at its best in summer when the colours in the plaid have something to sit against.
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#15: Lilac Polo with a White Skort

A lilac polo with a white skort. The pastel that has aged best in golf wear, and it looks its best in the flat light of an early summer tee time.
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#16: Beige Trousers with a White Polo

Beige trousers with a white polo. Trousers in summer make sense on a course with thorny rough or insects, and beige hides everything the ground can do to them.
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#17: Colour Blocked Polo with a Navy Skort

A colour blocked polo with a plain navy skort. Two clear colours above, nothing below, and it is the sharpest summer look here without any pattern at all.
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#18: White Dress with a Coloured Visor

A white golf dress with one strong colour at the visor. The cleanest outfit on the list, finished with a single accent exactly at eye level.
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#19: Peach Polo with White Skort

A peach polo with a white skort. Peach is warmer than pink and softer than coral, and it sits in a gap most golf brands only fill for a few weeks a year.
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#20: Navy Polo with Khaki Shorts

A navy polo with khaki shorts. The least fussy outfit here and probably the most worn, because khaki survives a summer of bunkers without ever looking dirty.
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#21: Green Sun Shirt with a White Skort

A green sun shirt with a white skort. Coverage that does not add heat, and green is the colour that looks most at home on a course in July.
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#22: Black Skort with a Bright Sleeveless Top

A black skort with a bright sleeveless top. Dark below is fine in summer because legs move constantly; it is a dark top that traps heat against the torso.
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#23: Cream Polo with a Printed Skort

A cream polo over a printed skort. Cream is softer than white in strong light and it lets a busier skort work without the two halves competing.
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#24: White Trousers with a Striped Sun Shirt

White trousers with a striped long sleeve sun shirt. Full coverage in high summer, which sounds like a contradiction and is simply a matter of buying thin woven fabric.
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#25: Matching Summer Set in Pale Blue

A matching pale blue polo and skort. Sets remove the decision entirely on an early tee time, and tonal dressing photographs better than any two colour combination.