Needed to vent: Extremely disappointed in quality of Nike/TW Collection Polos

I purchased a pair of TW Collection polos from the local Roger Dunn about 9.5 months ago. A shoulder injury and very rainy winter/spring in SoCal kept me off the course until I played a few rounds last week. Put the two shirts into the washer with the instructions it had on the tag ... in a nutshell: machine wash cold, inside out, tumble dry low. Lo and behold both shirts are falling apart in the placket section (where the buttons are)!

Roger Dunn won't do anything since they have a 90 day return policy. Nike says they can't do anything because the purchase had to have been made within 6 months. So I'm here venting because I'm annoyed I'm out over $200 after wearing each shirt once and putting it in the washer. Local alteration shop is going to see what they can do, but they think it was glued on there before so they don't think they can fix it without visible markings ...

Thats bullxxxx. Is there an e-mail address or contact for Nike? I feel your pain. I've thrown away too many expensive TW polos to count. The sleeve hem (which is glued) always comes apart and the white polyester looks ridiculously dull after a few washes. For the big $$ we pay we should be getting a quality product.

that stinks. I have had that green shirt for about 2 years now I think and it has held up well, to many rounds and washes.

I always air-dry mine on a hanger and haven't had any issues. I've learned my lesson the hard way that drying Nike golf shirts with any heat is the kiss of death.

Never have put mine in the dryer. The dryer is death on golf shirts.

Yea and dryers even tho on low setting often just pump high heat. Stay far away from dryers if you don’t wanna ruin your clothes

Sorry to hear about that shirt. I have the same model in both shirts. I try to avoid washing the shirts and wear a compression shirt under my gear. If I have to wash the shirt, I do a cold wash and hang dry....never the dryer. Hope Nike Golf helps you out.

I’ve always had quality issues with Nike. Stopped buying their products in all my sporting purchases now

Out of the wash straight on to a hangar to air dry never a problem.

I have many Nike polos and only one Tw collection and dry all mine without any issues. Maybe a bad batch.

Nike shirts and getting more and more expensive and their quality is getting cheaper and cheaper. I feel your pain. It's not going to stop until people stop buying their products. And, of course, it's not just them.

Sympathetic to your situation.

I was looking at the rack of shirts today in the proshop. Nike and Adidas felt as flimsy as plastic sandwich bags.

RLX and FJ were better built, so to speak.

Peter Millar Summer Comfort seem to last. I've had some stand up two years already with regular use.

_always_ hang dry a synthetic shirt. dryers will curl the collars and ruin the fusings.

Nike shirts have always been low quality in my opinion, and why I've never carried them in my proshop. But to echo what many here are saying, performance golf shirts never need to go in a dryer. Always hang up to dry after washing.

I switched to Peter Milar, no going back to anything else

> @buckeyevalley said:

> Never have put mine in the dryer. The dryer is death on golf shirts.

Yep, it was most likely the heat of dryer which caused it. I never had a problem with golf shirts in dryer until I threw in one of my TW ones. It’s because they have metal buttons. Ruined it and Nike wouldn’t replace because they said heat of dryer caused it. I don’t put any in the dryer anymore even if tags says low heat

Nike’s apparel is garbage.

I've had a TW polo basically just like this one for 3 years and it still looks brand new. I'm doing anything special with it either. Washer and dryer after every wear and wear it ~every other week for 3 years. Maybe its not the shirt that the problem.

> @BottleCap said:

> I switched to Peter Milar, no going back to anything else

Yeah same price and ten times the quality. Night and day.

I had the same problem with the one of my tw shirts...sucks because it’s a sharp shirt

Could it be your washer?,I’ve read many horror stories about people’s clothes getting ripped in the HE washers with the agitator on the bottom,just a thought.


I’ve never had a problem with my several dozen Nike polos including TW looks like this and I beat the heck out of them. I wash and dryer them and never read the tag instructions.

> @tmac7592 said:

> Yea and dryers even tho on low setting often just pump high heat. Stay far away from dryers if you don’t wanna ruin your clothes

I grew up in the dry-cleaning/laundry business. If your golf shirts can't handle a dryer, then you purchased a cheap shirt (regardless of how much you paid for it).

Putting your shirts in a net bag will prevent them from getting yanked around by other items in the dryer and prevent damage.

One other thing to watch out for is zippers. Zippers on any items should be fully zipped before putting in a washer or dryer. An open zipper is like having a saw blade tumbling around--they snag, pull, and rip other garments.

>...they think it was glued on there before so they don't think they can fix it without visible markings

GLUED!!!!!

How much did you pay, and the placket isn't even sewn in place? Cheap, cost-cutting move--plain and simple. The placket is one of the most stressed areas on a shirt, you need a strong connection. Gluing is absolutely unacceptable.

They can blind-stich it (the technique used to sew cuffs on dress pants so the stitches don't show on the outside). But, I recommend you just let them sew it back and live with the visible stitches.

> @Macklessdaddy said:

> Could it be your washer?,I’ve read many horror stories about people’s clothes getting ripped in the HE washers with the agitator on the bottom,just a thought.

This is the big selling point of front loading washers.

That is unacceptable to happen after one washing. You could glue it back. I have a few items I have glued to fix things and so far the glued seems have held up. I always wash my golf/performance clothes on gentle and dry on low. I haven't had any issues.

Nike sizing can be a problem. Two shirts I bought online I had to resell, as they were far smaller than the exact same size in last years model...this is before washing. You would think after 40 plus years, Nike would have it all figured out.

> @Moo said:

> Nike sizing can be a problem. Two shirts I bought online I had to resell, as they were far smaller than the exact same size in last years model...this is before washing. You would think after 40 plus years, Nike would have it all figured out.

You couldn’t return them? Nike lets you return used gear

> @Moo said: You would think after 40 plus years, Nike would have it all figured out.

They do, when it comes to making money.

Nike is NOT a sports or apparel company, it is a marketing company. They sell an image and a lifestyle. This happens to enable them to sell hard goods, but that isn't their focus.

A few years ago a Nike internal memo leaked which said Nike considers their primary competitor to be...video games.

I'm not saying all Nike products are sub-par, but their focus isn't creating top-end products, it's selling anything they can slap a logo on.

> @Talldog said:

> > @Moo said: You would think after 40 plus years, Nike would have it all figured out.

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> They do, when it comes to making money.

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> Nike is NOT a sports or apparel company, it is a marketing company. They sell an image and a lifestyle. This happens to enable them to sell hard goods, but that isn't their focus.

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> A few years ago a Nike internal memo leaked which said Nike considers their primary competitor to be...video games.

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> I'm not saying all Nike products are sub-par, but their focus isn't creating top-end products, it's selling anything they can slap a logo on.

Anyone spending $100 on a golf shirt is buying into some kind of marketing. It's not the polyester.