Golf Course Dress Codes

Collared shirts required; shorts must be Bermuda length; no denim or cut-offs

Presumably, the purpose of a golf course dress code is to keep the riff-raff out, but don't the greens fees achieve the same purpose? I like rules, but I prefer them to be meaningful rather than symbolic, especially when the symbolism is snobbery. Isn't the better rule that golfers be respectful of others and the facility? Is the correlation between dressing well and behaving well on the golf course really all that high?

Down with golf course dress codes at public courses. If I can vote in a t-shirt, I ought to be able to play golf in one.

On the other hand, up with dress codes, and especially uniforms, at schools (public and otherwise). The case that clothing is a way for kids to "express themselves" is overblown. In my experience, the way kids dress mainly expresses the size of their parents' bank accounts, or at least their willingness to spend conspicuously on fashion. Uniforms can (partially) shield economically disadvantaged kids from being ridiculed. More generally, they subvert a positional goods arms race in which families devote an increasing share of resources to things that hold little inherent value (nod to Robert Frank).

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
-- Mark Twain