By Leonard Finkel
The men’s Antigua Summer 2017 Golf Performance collection is an inspiration of color, with a vibrant palette that’s a fresh follow-up to the Spring ’17 full-performance range. It incorporates six fresh designs that are great additions to any golfer’s wardrobe.
Antigua’s design team blended color-on-color with these stand-out styles. By complementing colors and incorporating them into solid heather effects, yarn dye stripes, prints and outerwear, they achieved eye-catching results.
The collection begins with a tonal double knit jacquard self-collar polo that’s conceptualized to mimic the effect that’s created by knitting heather yarns into a solid fabric. Style Hologram gives the illusion of light and dark contrasting shades by using varying yarn sizes that independently absorb solid dye with unique variances. When the different yarns are double-knit into a digital jacquard design and the fabric is piece-dyed, the result is a truly refined polo.
Style Drive employs a richly dominant color stripe with no pattern uniformity set against a white background. An engineered contrasting pop accent stripe brightens the pattern. Blending a high-filament count jersey and spandex, the hand, drape and fit are very comfortable.
Revive — named for its reinvention of the traditional two-color narrow rugby stripe pattern. This flat knit polo suggests traditional styling, while the stripe and its bold color use fit in with current trends. The fabric is a proprietary pique construction of high-count filament yarns in a designated denier, with the inclusion of spandex for ultimate stretch and comfort.
Vista, a half-zip pullover, it is constructed from a double-knit jacquard heather twill fabric, requiring minimal style detailing. Styled as a raglan for fluid movement, the simplicity of dyed-to-match filament cover stitched seams over white seam taping compliments the fabric’s twill effect in a perfect accent.
Leonard Finkel is the author of The Secrets to the Game of Golf & Life and former editor in chief of Golf Journeys Magazine. His work has been featured in almost 200 publications including Golf Magazine, Golf Digest, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Golf Illustrated, Golf Tips and Player Magazine. He has written more than a dozen cover stories for Golf Today Magazine. He has written extensively about golf and travel and has added poker to his writing repertoire. Finkel also works as a marketing and public relations consultant. His specialty niche is writing advertorial copy. Prior to his career in golf, Finkel owned a chain of retail stores and a consulting and import company based in Asia. He attended the University of Utah.