Professional Golfers Turn to Oceanside Cleaners to Look Their Best in The Players Tournament

Ever wonder why professional golfers look perfectly dressed each day of a grueling tournament, come rain or shine, whether blasting out of a sandtrap or fishing their ball out of the water?

It’s not by chance. Professional golfers are treated to daily concierge services, including laundering. Almost all the professional golfers in The Players Tournament at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra, March 13-16, rely on local Oceanside Cleaners to launder and press outfits between rounds—every day! (We say Oceanside Cleaners cleans the garb of “almost all” golfers, because some, like Tiger Woods, wear a new outfit each day.)

The Players Tournament features 144 of the world’s best golfers, with a purse of $25 million. That’s a lot of golf attire.

Tournament Cleaning Services Extend Beyond the Professional Golfers

Professional golf has long honored and established customs around looking professional and polished. No wonder The Players has relied on Oceanside Cleaners since the mid 1990s and not just for the professional golfers.

“Oceanside has a huge role in the meticulous look of the tournament,” says Oceanside’s Mark Harris, owner. “We also clean and press most caddies’ clothes, the clothes of food and beverage staff serving special guests in the clubhouse, all locker room staff and the garments worn by the upper clubhouse management.”

After the tournament, Oceanside’s work is not done. We clean tablecloths that were in the hospitality tents, volunteer tents, chalets and other venues when the golfers go home.

A Year-Round Reputation for Professionally Cleaning Golf Attire—for Amateurs, too

Oceanside serves every-day golfers, too, with the same attention they give the pros. “Our solid reputation has led to a robust business in the laundering of golf polos, skirts and pants,” adds Harris. “Our customers who golf say they feel better when they wear quality golf clothing that has been professionally laundered.”

The golf apparel market is big and getting bigger, with North American sales at $2.8 billion and growing 4.4% a year. And more people are golfing. In 2024, a record 532 million rounds of golf were played in the U.S., exceeding the 2023 record of 531 million rounds, marking the third time in four years that a record number of rounds have been played, according to the National Golf Foundation.

Golf apparel has become complex in design, construction, colors and materials. New fabrics have been created to provide freedom of movement, to give protection from weather conditions and to enhance overall performance. Harris adds, “Golf attire has, of course, evolved over the years. These days, clothing often helps with blocking UV rays, provides anti-odor protection and has a look that appeals to different fashion tastes.

“We think the surge in bringing in golf apparel to our cleaners is not only about looking good on the links. It’s also all about protecting an investment,” Harris says.

For Best Results, Leave Stain Removal to the Experts

Fabric stains are hard to avoid, whether from grass, blood, ink, wine, coffee or dozens of other possibilities. (We think it’s a sign that you’re living an active, vibrant life!)

But before you turn to the internet for ideas on how to remove a stain, why not let Oceanside Cleaners take a look? “Many stain removal ideas people hear about can actually permanently set the stain rather than remove it,” says Mike Harris, owner, Oceanside Cleaners. “It’s much easier for us to remove a stain when the person hasn’t tried a home remedy first.”

Three “Don’ts” for Successful Stain Removal

Based on 35 years of expertise, Harris shares three rules of thumb for dealing with fabric stains:

Don’t try it yourself. Often when our customers come in, they have tried all the so-called remedies: Rinse with cold water or warm water. Dab with vinegar, baking soda or hydrogen peroxide. Spray it with WD-40. Rub it with polishing paste. Unfortunately, most will leave you with a worse mess than when you started.
Don’t despair. The other extreme is to admit defeat and trash the item. Customers particularly give up on stains from peanut butter, mustard, berry juice, tomato sauce, red wine, cooking grease or butter. But most of these stains can be removed by our professionals at Oceanside Cleaners.
Don’t wait. The longer you wait, the more time the stain has to set—to weld itself to the fabric, destroying or distorting fibers and becoming impossible to remove. Bring the item to us as soon as you can to improve the chance of complete stain removal.

We’re Professional Stain Removers—Try Us

Oceanside’s process of fabric stain removal is not magic. We rely on extensive experience, access to specialized spotting agents and the careful application of heat and steam, depending on the stain. We always assess the stain and fabric first, then apply spotting solutions and enzymes to break down the stain, adding more spotting agents as necessary. Finally, we may use tools and vacuums to remove any remnants of the stain.

Our stain removal expertise is not limited to clothing. We’ve removed stains from bedding, tablecloths and patio cushions, among other items.

“We love seeing customers’ surprise and delight when they discover the item they thought was hopelessly stained looking like new,” Harris says. “The next time you have an ’oops,’ get that item to us soon for the best possible outcome.”

Oceanside was named one of America’s top 70 small businesses in 2023 by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and has been named “Best of Weddings” by The Knot every year since 2019 for wedding-wear treatment.

Stain Removal Tips from the Professionals

A girl who gets her clothes dirty with food

All of us have to deal with stains on our clothes: grass stains, grease stains, tomato stains, coffee stains, ink stains…the list is never-ending.

There is no avoiding occasional stains, no matter how careful we are. In fact, simple spaghetti dinners are the most searched stain on the American Cleaning Institute (ACI) website! More research by ACI found that:

Men are more likely to have sports, wine and food-related stains
Women are more likely to have food incidents and bloodstains
Kids are more likely to have grass stains and marker and paint stains

Thankfully, Oceanside Cleaners has 30-plus years of experience successfully removing stains from every type of garment, from work clothes to wedding dresses. And, because stains are so common, we’d like to share a few professional tips you can use at home to either remove common stains or keep them from setting before you get garments to the cleaners.

Use detergent sparingly. Many customers think the more detergent they use on a stain, the better the removal. It’s the most common error we see. When it comes to detergent, more is not better. Too much detergent can linger in a garment for a long time and even attract dirt and dust. We advise our customers to do the opposite: use just a teaspoon or two of detergent on a stain and then soak the garment in a bucket of water. Pre-soaking can keep the stain from setting before bringing it to us. The more rinsing, the better the stain removal.
Some special cleaning compounds work on specific types of stains. We recommend Dawn dish soap for grease and oil. Hydrogen peroxide often removes yellowing stains on whites. Neutral detergents help prevent color fade when soaking out everyday dirt. Sometimes, vinegar works on tomato stains. At Oceanside, we also have several professional-grade and targeted stain removers that have proven successful over time.
Sometimes it’s better to remove stains by laundry; other times dry cleaning is best. Whether to choose the laundry or dry cleaning for stain removal depends on the stain. Because dry cleaning uses solvents, it can attack petroleum and oil stains. Dry cleaning is the best way to prevent or remove color bleeding stains. Dry cleaning also works on sweat stains. The laundry process works on most of the other stains. We have a complete line of professional-grade laundry stain removers that often work better than any home remedy. We’ve even found a way to remove a red Gatorade stain, known as one of the most stubborn stains.
Know when to use hot water and when to use cold water. This is a complex question we often get from a customer trying to remove a stain at home. What makes it complex is that the answer is sometimes to use both water temperatures! Many stains respond to a cold-water soak followed by a warm or hot water wash! However, in general, our rule of thumb is to use cold water to remove stains on natural fabrics like wool, satin and silk and to use cold water on food stains. But for coffee, chocolate and wine stains, hot water works best.

As we remove stains, Oceanside Cleaners is committed to green cleaning as recommended by the Green Cleaners Council. On a side note, we were recently awarded “Best of Weddings” from The Knot for the fifth year running. If we can successfully clean something as complex and important as a wedding dress, we can tackle the more common stains you experience in your life.

So, the next time you or your family has a fabric stain, do what you can to stabilize it and then bring in the garment so we can do our best to restore it to like new!