Team kit is new to golf. Football supporters have worn their club's shirt for a century, but until recently there was no golf equivalent, because there were no golf teams to support. LIV Golf changed that, and a category that did not exist five years ago now sits in pro shops next to the plain polos.
Stuburt is the on-course apparel partner of Fireballs GC, the team captained by Sergio Garcia. Which raises a fair question from anyone looking at a team polo: is this the same shirt the players wear, and can you actually wear it at your own club?
Short answers: essentially yes, and yes. The longer version is more interesting.
What replica kit actually is
The garment underneath a team polo is a production garment. The Fireballs Lit performance polo at £54.99 is built on the same platform as the retail Lit performance polo at £44.99. Same fabric, same construction, same fit. What you are paying the difference for is the team identity: the branding, the colourway, the licensing behind it.
That is worth knowing because it cuts both ways. It means team kit is not a costume with a badge stuck on a cheaper shirt. It also means that if you want the performance without the team branding, the retail version gives you the identical garment for less. Both are legitimate purchases. They are just different purchases.
The one genuine difference between a tour player's shirt and yours is fit. Tour kit is often made to a player's own measurements, and players ask for adjustments that would make no sense in a retail size run. The fabric and the build are the same. The tailoring is not.
The Fireballs record
The team has a real record to point at. Fireballs GC won the LIV team title at Andalucía in 2024, then took Adelaide, Hong Kong and Singapore across 2025. Individually, Sergio Garcia won at LIV Andalucía in 2024 and LIV Hong Kong in 2025, and Abraham Ancer won at LIV Hong Kong in 2024.
Alongside the team, Stuburt works with two individual ambassadors. Jhonattan Vegas, the Venezuelan PGA Tour player and Olympian, won the 3M Open in 2024. Barclay Brown, the British player and Stanford graduate, was part of the 2021 Walker Cup team.
How to wear it without looking like a fan
This is the actual problem. A full team outfit works on a tour player because everyone around them is wearing one. At your club on a Saturday morning, head to toe in team colours reads as fancy dress.
The rule that solves it is simple: one team piece at a time. Everything else stays plain.
- The polo route. One team polo, plain trousers or shorts, plain cap. The Fireballs Seville polo, the Fireballs Madrid polo and the Fireballs Sergio polo are all £29.99, and any of them work over an Urban II trouser at £19.99 or an Urban II short at £19.99.
- The layer route. Plain polo underneath, team piece on top. The Fireballs Zaragoza hoodie at £29.99 or the Fireballs Bae hoodie at £59.99 do this well, and it is the more discreet option because the team branding only appears when you are cold.
- The small route. Just the Fireballs Malaga cap at £14.99. Team identity at the smallest possible dose, and the easiest thing to wear if you are not sure the look is for you.
The one thing to avoid is a team polo with a team cap and team outerwear all at once. Pick the piece, commit to it, keep the rest quiet.
A word on dress codes
Team kit is normal golf apparel and passes any standard club dress code, because it is collared performance wear with branding on it, which describes nearly every polo in the shop. Hoodies are the only item worth checking. Golf hoodies are now widely accepted in the UK and a great many clubs have relaxed their rules, but a small number of traditional clubs have not. If you are playing somewhere unfamiliar, check before you travel.
Why any of this fits a brand founded in 1860
There is an obvious tension in a heritage brand making LIV team kit. It resolves more neatly than you might expect.
Stuburt started in Manchester in 1860, when Ralph Stubbs and Frederick Burt were making shoes. The company then followed British sport wherever it went: yachting kit in 1928, ice skating in 1946, football boots in 1966, and golf from 1980. Darren Clarke won the 2011 Open Championship in Stuburt shoes.
Read that list again and the pattern is not tradition for its own sake. It is a company that has repeatedly attached itself to whatever sport was moving at the time. Football boots in 1966 were the contemporary choice, not the safe one. A LIV team deal in the 2020s is the same instinct, 160 years later.
The through line is not a particular sport. It is making kit for the game people are actually watching.
Start here
The full Fireballs collection covers polos, hoodies, caps and the Almeria caddie bib. If you want the same garments without the team branding, the polo range has the retail versions.
