The short answer on What Do Women Wear to Golf Tournaments is below, and the honest version is that it depends on two or three things rather than one. A high waistband stays put; a mid one rolls. Squat test anything light coloured before you commit to it. The groups below run from the decision that matters most to the ones you make afterwards.

What decides this is compression, waistband height and fabric recovery. Everything else is preference. Two from the first group show the range: Varley's FreeSoft High Rise Legging 25 at $98, and Spiritual Gangster's SG Yoga Mat at $118. The first is the easy entry point; the second is where the money goes. A high waistband stays put; a mid one rolls. Squat test anything light coloured before you commit to it. A higher price mostly buys materials and finishing, and occasionally it buys nothing at all.

One colour top to bottom makes cheap activewear look expensive. From the second group, MATE the Label's Organic Stretch Full Length Legging ($63) is the one that earns its place, because it works in more than one context without being restyled. The third group is smaller and deliberately narrower, activewear, for the decisions you make after the main one. None of this needs the whole group. One piece from each is usually enough.

There are 20 pieces here from 15 brands, $16 to $245, all in stock when this was written. We would not buy all of them, and neither should you. Printfresh's Multi - Golf Par-Tee Stir Stick Set - Lucky Lemon Paper Co. at $16 is the low-risk way in, and loveshackfancy.com's Tween Stretch Pointelle Gemira Skirt at $245 only makes sense if this is a category you already use constantly. On what do women wear to golf tournaments specifically: the difference between the top and the bottom of this list is real but smaller than the price gap suggests. Nothing here is included because it is famous, and price is not used as a proxy for quality anywhere on this page. If you take one thing away: pay for the thing that touches your body and economise on the thing that sits on top of it.