Golf in Heels… an extraordinary experiment

Everyone knows that old saying about New York- if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. I, however, have taken the creative liberty to expand on that to, “If you can do it in heels, you can do it better than most people.” I mean, that’s how I feel anyway.

Last month’s Pilates in Heels experiment went so fabulously well that Ariston and I decided to have another crack at it. Our last experiment was just enough to tame our burning question about sports even being possible in heels, but this month we decided to play a little harder- we wanted a traditionally male sport to be the focus of our latest heels experiment.

Living in Manhattan makes golfing a typically difficult scenario unless you’re in the know about places like Golf Manhattan that have indoor simulators developed for every golfing level (in my case, I wasn’t even on a level). They have dozens of real courses that you can “golf,” which was obviously appealing to me, because I can’t imagine that I’ll ever be invited to really hop on the Saint Andrews course, and Pebble Beach is great but hardly a hop, skip, or jump from my high-rise building on the Hudson river. As it turns out, golfing is pretty hard. I thought with the added comfort of being inside temperature-regulated walls I’d be more or less okay, and that my relatively strong athletic abilities would translate easily to the sport of balls and clubs. I was terribly wrong. It was mega hard, and the only consolation I had was the fun hair and makeup that my good friend Pedro at Paul Labrecque supplied me with. Hair, shimmering spray tanned legs, and fun athletic gear by Soffe and New Balance would be my only weapons against the sport of golf- which would end up destroying me regardless of my efforts.

Golf is hard. I have a new level of respect for all the middle-aged and beyond doctors, lawyers, and regular business dudes that play the sport. I always considered them slackers in some way, thinking to myself “if they were really athletic they’d be playing basketball or 2-hand touch.” I couldn’t have been more wrong. Ariston and I left Golf Manhattan on that rainy day Spring day with sore muscles and hungry stomachs. Our shoes, provided by Endless.com, were the kind of heels more normally found on the feet of women being wined and dined, at art exhibits, or on the generally unemployed with no need to be employed. Sporting events were probably the last things on the minds of the designers at Jessica Bennett and Pour La Victoire when designing their shoes.

So what’s on tap for next month? We’re considering basketball, gymnastics, track and field events, and obviously karate… but we’re open to suggestions, so feel free to leave them as comments.

Photography by Adrian Rand
Location Golf Manhattan
Hair & Makeup by Paul Labrecque Spa
Styling by Jenn Eisner
Heels by Endless.com
Athletic Shorts by Soffe
Athletic Tops & Bras by NewBalance Intimates
Outerwear by EMU
Timepieces by Skagen Denmark