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Golf clothing tip inspired by March Madness: compression socks
My ankles started bothering me shortly after the end of the past golf season. Various possible explanations occurred to me: tendonitis, arthritis, my father's legs (poor circulation), my mother's legs (peripheral neuropathy), too much deskwork (ha!), advancing age, incipient varicose veins (leading current theory). I read something somewhere about compression socks, and bought a version intended for runners, from a company called Vitalsox. They're knee-height and they're a little tricky to put on, but they immediately made my ankles feel 80-95 percent better.
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So what the hell? All sorts of athletes wear them, including college basketball players, and they're supposed to be good for people who are stuck in too-small seats on long flights, like the one that eleven golf buddies and I are about to take to Ireland. I've now got four long pairs and four quarter-height pairs (meant for tennis players), and I’m about to order more. The only bad thing about them is that I can’t (that is to say, I won’t) wear them with shorts. But who knows? Maybe I’ll change my mind about that, too.
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I’m not crazy about revealing what they look like on my actual legs, so you’ll have to use your imagination.
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