A small house, built around one hole.

Long club. Two plateaus. One unforgiving swale.

Biarritz Golf is an apparel house drawn from a single idea in golf architecture — the Biarritz template. A long par 3, a green the length of a runway, a chasm down the middle, and a shot asked of you that almost no other hole on earth asks twice.

Par
3
Yardage
210–240
Green depth
~ 60 yds
Plateaus
Front · Back
Defence
Central swale

№ 01 — Anatomy of the green

One green, two greens, depending on the wind.

Plate I — A schematic green in the Biarritz template. Long, low, flanked by sand. The defining gesture is the swale that splits it: a chasm two clubs deep, daring the player to choose between running the ball through it or carrying it whole.

№ 02 — The House

We are an apparel house for players who read the ground.

Willie Dunn drew the original at Biarritz-le-Phare in the 1880s. C. B. Macdonald carried the idea across the Atlantic, Seth Raynor and Charles Banks repeated it, refined it, and left a string of these green-and-bunker sentences from Long Island to the Carolinas.

We started Biarritz Golf because that hole — long club, two plateaus, the swale — is the closest thing the game has to a brand mark. Our clothes are made the way those greens are built: long lines, a few strong gestures, nothing decorative. Cottons milled in northern Portugal. Knitwear hand-finished in the Pays Basque. Cut for the back-plateau flag and the walk back to the car.

— Jason Goldman, founder

№ 03 — The Lineage

Twenty-four sentences in the same handwriting.

The Biarritz green is the rare template that survives in the ground, often unchanged, sometimes restored, almost always the most photographed hole on the property. A short list — with apologies to the ones we left out.

  • 3Chicago Golf ClubWheaton, Illinois
  • 9Piping Rock ClubLocust Valley, New York
  • 6ShoreacresLake Bluff, Illinois
  • 8Camargo ClubIndian Hill, Ohio
  • 9Yale Golf CourseNew Haven, Connecticut
  • 11The CreekLocust Valley, New York
  • 17Westhampton CCWesthampton, New York
  • 5Mountain LakeLake Wales, Florida
  • 17Fox ChapelPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • 2St. Louis Country ClubLadue, Missouri
  • 5Fishers IslandFishers Island, New York
  • 3Greenbrier — Old WhiteWhite Sulphur Springs, W. Va.
  • 16Yeamans HallHanahan, South Carolina
  • 14National Golf LinksSouthampton, New York
  • 3Blue MoundWauwatosa, Wisconsin
  • 7Sleepy Hollow — LowerBriarcliff Manor, New York
  • 5North Shore CCGlenview, Illinois
  • 13Elkridge ClubBaltimore, Maryland
  • 17Forsgate — BanksMonroe Twp, New Jersey
  • 8Whippoorwill ClubArmonk, New York
  • 13Somerset HillsBernardsville, New Jersey
  • 12Tamarack CCGreenwich, Connecticut
  • 13Mid Ocean ClubTucker's Town, Bermuda
  • 4Lookout MountainLookout Mountain, Tennessee

Original: Biarritz-le-Phare, France · Willie Dunn, c. 1888.

A Biarritz template green — long, narrow, flanked by sand, with a clear central swale running across it.
Plate II — Late light on a restored Biarritz. The swale draws a shadow across the surface even when the wind has dropped.

№ 04 — On Film

The shape of the shot.

A short study of the Biarritz template — what the architects were drawing, what the green is asking, and why the same gesture has held the line for nearly a hundred and fifty years. Made for players who already know which way the wind is blowing.

  • SubjectThe Biarritz green
  • LengthA long par 3's worth
  • ForPlayers who read the ground
Film I — A short study, on the long par 3.

№ 05 — Maiden Collection

Front Plateau · Back Plateau.

Our first season is two short capsules, named for the two halves of the green. Front Plateau is for the round itself. Back Plateau is for everything after. Numbered runs; when a piece is gone, it is gone.

№ I · Polos & Knits

The Phare Polo

Long-staple Portuguese piqué in chalk, ink, and a quiet bordeaux. Italian rib collar that holds its line through a long par 3 and a long lunch. House mark in tonal thread, hip-side.

From €185 · 4 colourways

№ II · Tailoring

The Raynor Trouser

Four-season Japanese twill chino, single forward pleat, cut clean to the shoe. Roomy enough for a true backswing, trim enough to be the trouser at dinner.

From €245 · 3 colourways

№ III · Knitwear

The Macdonald Cardigan

Merino with a whisper of silk, hand-finished in the Pays Basque. Named for the man who carried the hole across the Atlantic. For the hour the wind comes off the water.

From €395 · 2 colourways

№ IV · Caps & Smalls

The Swale Cap

Unstructured six-panel in washed cotton-linen, with the Biarritz green hand-embroidered in tonal thread above the brim. The whole hole, on the front of your head.

From €95 · 5 colourways

The full lookbook arrives with the first members' release — join the list for the early viewing.

A Biarritz template green photographed in autumn light, with a deep central swale and flanking bunkers.
Plate III — Autumn, late afternoon. A Biarritz at rest.

№ 06 — The Society

The Biarritz Society — twenty-four greens, one round a year.

The society is a quiet thing. Each year, members are invited to one round — always a Biarritz, never the same course twice. A long lunch, a printed scorecard, and a piece made for the day. Membership is by invitation; the waitlist is the door.

  • I

    The Annual Round

    One Biarritz, one day, twenty-four players. Past hosts: Yeamans Hall, Fishers Island, the Creek.

  • II

    The Yardage Book

    A printed annual on one hole and one course — original drawings, archival photography, a long essay.

  • III

    First Allocation

    Members see every release first, and get first claim on every numbered piece we make.

№ 07 — Joining the list

Founding members. Spring 2026.

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