Fall Ball: SLOAT Arrives, the Leaf Rule and Greywalls in Fall Color

SLOAT is new at Mully: the road to Ocean Beach

SLOAT is new to the Mully shop. They make golf clothes from natural fibers only, and here's why that matters.

SLOAT is named for Sloat Boulevard, which runs west across San Francisco past some of the city's public courses before ending at Ocean Beach. The brand launched in 2026, and its founders didn't come from golf. Dan Fibiger spent years on the sustainability side of apparel, most recently at Gap Inc. Teague Moriarty is a chef and an owner of Sons & Daughters and Kiln.

“I got tired of my wife laughing at me every time I put on my dumb little plastic golfing costume, so I started a brand.” Dan Fibiger, co-founder

Their focus is the fabric. SLOAT uses GOTS-certified organic cotton, RWS-certified merino, and Ventile. They don't use polyester or stretch blends. The clothes are made in Portugal, the colors are quiet, and the logos are small. Instead of making performance claims, SLOAT bets on materials, and you can feel the difference.

Photo at top: SLOAT.

Five SLOAT pieces, and what they're made of

Our first SLOAT picks: five pieces for fall in SLOAT's three fabrics: Ventile, merino, and organic cotton. The colors are meant to be worn together.

Organic Ventile Jacket in Stone. Organic Ventile cotton. Ventile was developed in Britain during WWII for RAF pilots. The weave is so dense that the cotton fibers swell when wet, blocking wind and rain while still breathing. No synthetic coating, and it carries a lifetime guarantee.

Merino Polo in Navy. 200 gsm RWS merino jersey. A merino polo for days that start cold and warm up. It regulates temperature, moves moisture, and resists odor, so it works for a walk and dinner after.

Organic Cotton Fleece Crewneck in Redwood Burl. 480 gsm organic cotton fleece. Heavyweight fleece, brushed on the inside, with a concealed zip pocket for a ball marker or your keys.

Organic Cotton Six Panel Hat in Oil Green. 100% organic cotton with a leather strap. Made in the USA. The leather back strap develops a patina over time, so it looks better the more rounds it sees.

Organic Cotton Fleece Hoodie in Black. 480 gsm GOTS organic cotton fleece. The heavyweight hoodie, sewn in Portugal, with a jersey-lined hood, a cotton drawcord, and a kangaroo pocket. SLOAT designed it as a mid-round layer or a clubhouse piece for before and after a round.

Your ball is in the leaves. Now what?

Fall golf means that, sooner or later, your ball ends up in a pile of leaves. Here's what the Rules of Golf allow, explained in three pictures.

1. Clear them away. Leaves are “loose impediments” in the rules: natural objects that aren't attached to anything, like stones, loose grass, and twigs. Since 2019, you can remove them anywhere on the course, including in a bunker or a penalty area. Use whatever you have: your hand, a towel, or your hat.

2. Don't move the ball. If your ball moves while you clear the leaves, you take a one-stroke penalty and put it back. The exception is the putting green, where you just put it back and play on, with no penalty.

3. Is there a “leaf rule”? Only if the course has one. A course or tournament committee can adopt Model Local Rule F-14. It treats temporary piles of leaves as ground under repair, so you get free relief, even if you know your ball is in the pile but can't find it. Check the scorecard or ask in the pro shop. Without F-14, a ball you can't find within three minutes is lost (stroke and distance). Also, piles that the grounds crew has raked up to haul away count as ground under repair even without the local rule.

LIV Golf owned 850+ domains. Some were insults about itself.

Here's a strange one. LIV Golf's bankruptcy paperwork, filed Oct. 22, lists more than 850 web domains among the league's assets. Mixed in with the usual names are addresses its critics would have loved to own.

The funniest finds were three addresses that pair a four-letter word with the league's name. One spells out the full, formal name, LIV Golf League Invitational. Another is a .org, the nonprofit edition, presumably.

Why buy websites that trash your own brand? A LIV source told Front Office Sports it was standard brand protection: own the domains before anyone else can.

After billions spent on star players, flashy events, and a global media push, it's details like this that show how far LIV went to control its image. It didn't last. On Nov. 5, LIV told the bankruptcy court it is winding down for good.

Sources: LIV Golf Schedule A/B (U.S. Bankruptcy Court, D.N.J.), via Zire Golf; AP.

Fall course of the week: Greywalls, Marquette, Michigan

Marquette Golf Club has been around a long time. Its Heritage course dates to 1926 and was designed by William Langford and Theodore Moreau. In 2005, the club opened Greywalls, designed by Mike DeVries. DeVries grew up in Saginaw, apprenticed under Tom Doak, and also built the Kingsley Club.

The site sits above Marquette and Lake Superior. It covers 233 wooded acres, with a trout stream, granite outcroppings, and about 200 feet of elevation change. DeVries moved only 40,000 cubic yards of dirt and blasted just 3,000 cubic yards of rock, and the whole course cost 2.7 million dollars. From the first tee, you can see Pictured Rocks, about 55 miles away. Golfweek ranks it the No. 2 course you can play in Michigan and No. 40 among public courses in the U.S. (2024).

“It's spectacular in the fall. The colors are amazing up there in Marquette.” Mike DeVries, architect

Plan next fall's trip. Where: 1075 Grove St, Marquette, MI 49855. When: color peaks from mid-September to early October, mostly maples. Greywalls is closed for 2026 and reopens in late May.

Watch: Great Golf Holes: No. 7 at Greywalls from Fried Egg Golf. This is the hole with a granite outcropping in the middle of the fairway.

Golf trivia

On Feb. 6, 1971, Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard hit two golf balls on the moon. What club did he use?

We'll share the answer in the next issue of The Mully Letter.

Three gifts for the golfer who has everything

Jolly Golf The Purist Organizer in Navy. A light zip organizer that slips into your bag's apparel pocket, with a slot for every small thing.

Olydoe Pima Long Sleeve Polo, in 3 colors. Soft Pima cotton with long sleeves, made for the cool, late-season rounds.

Stitch Birdie Bag in Midnight navy. A backpack with magnetic inserts that turn it into a cooler, a carry-on, or a work bag.