Olgiata Golf Club Archives - Golf Digest Middle East https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/tag/olgiata-golf-club/ Golf Instruction, Equipment, Courses, Travel, News Mon, 12 Dec 2022 10:36:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/gd-favicon.ico Olgiata Golf Club Archives - Golf Digest Middle East https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/tag/olgiata-golf-club/ 32 32 Tapio Pulkkanen, the early leader at the Italian Open, has arguably the best hat game on the European Tour https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/tapio-pulkkanen-the-early-leader-at-the-italian-open-has-arguably-the-best-hat-game-on-the-european-tour/ https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/tapio-pulkkanen-the-early-leader-at-the-italian-open-has-arguably-the-best-hat-game-on-the-european-tour/#respond Thu, 10 Oct 2019 19:28:04 +0000 https://golfdigestme.com/?p=29775 For the first time in more than 50 starts, Tapio Pulkkanen is leading a European Tour event after 18 holes. Some would say he's permanently atop the hat leaderboard.

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Tapio Pulkkanen of Finland shot a career-low opening-round 64 to go to the top of the leader board at the 2019 Italian Open.

By Ryan Herrington
For the first time in more than 50 starts, Tapio Pulkkanen is leading a European Tour event after 18 holes. The 29-year-old from Finland shot a career-low opening-round 64 on Thursday at Olgiata Golf Club to jump out front at the Italian Open to take a one-stroke lead.

If you aren’t familiar with Pulkkanen, we’ll let it slide considering he’s only had four top-10 finishes on the Euro Tour. If the name does resonate, though, chances are it’s for a simple sartorial reason—his unusual choice of headwear.

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Pulkkanen’s hat of choice is called a trilby, which is distinct for its narrow brim. The trilby should not be confused for a fedora, which is a similar design but technically has a fuller, shorter crown. According to the website fashionablehats.com, the two are also meant to be worn differently, the trilby worn back on the head farther than the fedora.

Of course, the look has allowed Pulkkanen to stand out from his peers. He is known on tour by the nickname “The Hat.” And he has a pretty sweet logo that leans into his lid game.

So what’s the story with the man and his hats? Pulkkanen says he started wearing the trilby when he was a junior golfer. He was inspired by the captain of his golf club at his home course, who had an American wife and travelled to the States often and started wearing a similar hat.

There are times when he had to make a change. Two weeks ago at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, the weather forces Pulkkanen to take an alternative choice with this beanie.

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Here’s hoping the weather this week in Rome allows Pulkkanen stay true to his roots and sport his sporty straw trilby for the next few days.

 

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It’s been said before and we’ll say it again–the sound quality on the European Tour broadcasts is second to none. We already knew this from the two long approach shots that doubled as heat-seeking missiles Alexander Levy and Justin Thomas hit earlier this season, and it was reaffirmed on Thursday at the Italian Open, where Scotland’s Robert Macintyre hit a driver off the deck that you’ll be watching and listening to on repeat for the rest of the day.

Macintyre, 23, had just made double bogey on Olgiata Golf Club’s eighth hole, his 17th, to spoil what was an otherwise stellar round. It dropped him to one under, but he had an opportunity to get one back at the 623-yard par-5 9th, where he went driver-driver and found the green. Crank up the volume on this one:

For us mere mortals, successfully executing a driver off the deck is like finding a unicorn. For these guys, it’s just another shot in the arsenal to pull out when the mood strikes. Heroic stuff from Macintyre, who has given Scottish golf fans a lot to be excited about. The young, sweet-swinging lefty already has three runner-ups on the Euro Tour this season, plus a T-6 at the Open Championship.

Unfortunately, Macintyre went on to miss that short eagle putt, but he did save birdie to post two under, putting him five off the lead in Rome.

 

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