Fashion statement: tall black socks
Posted on June 27th, 2008 – 1:56 PMBy Michael Rand
We might have a new favorite player out on the course: Sakura Yokomine. You’ll notice the Japanese golfer pictured while waiting to fire her approach shot on hole 9. She is rocking tall black socks and what appear to be tennis shoes (unconfirmed as to whether they are really tennis shoes). It’s normally a look reserved for the over-70 crowd, but we have to confess that we like to bust it out sometimes for pick-up basketball games and even for long runs. So more power to Yokomine (whose first name, Sakura, means “cherry blossom” in English). Some folks in the gallery, however, weren’t quite as impressed. A group of four watching on the eighth green wondered if she forgot her clothes. “She’s lucky she even has her clubs,” one quipped.
13 Responses to "Fashion statement: tall black socks"
I ask for smoking and I get black socks. Are those her business socks?
That’s why they’re called business socks.
I’m glad to see Michigan’s Fab 5 videos have finally made it over to Japan.
+1 for jama for making me laugh.
I demand an interview!
Doesn’t Randball have credentials for an interview? Or, better yet, a good sports segment?!?!?!
I want to see her read the script from Big Lewbowski:
Maude Lebowski: Lord. You can imagine where it goes from here.
The Dude: He fixes the cable?
Maude Lebowski: Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey.
James Lileks is stealing ideas from RandBall. This can only lead to a (hopefully-televised) fight.
She walks these greens, in tall black so–oocks
She visits those holes, when the day’s sun coo–ooks
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows but me
That rhyme that I just inadvertently made…it probably shouldn’t have worked out that way.
+1 to MR for rhyming “socks” with “cooks,” and then trying to pass off the resultant inappropriateness as “inadvertant.”
Ask her if she is good at Sodoku. I need a mentor.
Let’s just say that I forgot to think of what the natural rhyme would have been when finding a word that actually made sense in the context of the song. Clearly this just calls for a verse:
Ten holes ago, on a warm June day
A shot was hit, way off the fairway
No-one saw, but they all opined
That the golfers socks looked like Yokomine’s
Is she actually the size of an Oompa Loompa or is that just the photographers fault?
We do miss those black socks Rand. Came up just the other day.
