The golf world is losing its mind over whether or not pro players should be able to wear shorts

The golf world is losing its mind over whether or not pro players should be able to wear shorts, Citing an attack to improve the action of golf, the European Tour appear endure anniversary that able golfers could activate to abrasion shorts during pro-am contest and convenance circuit of European Tour tournaments.

"The players accept accepted it," European Tour CEO Keith Pelley said. "Shorts are a accustomed change to advice improve the game. It puts our players aboriginal and our admirers aboriginal as well. The appearance of golf is something that the adolescence adopt. We will accept able rules, but there will be some appearance statements, and it's a abundant start."

Following the news, golfers batten out in acclaim of the decision.

"I anticipate it’s awesome," Jordan Spieth said. "I anticipate it will be something that I would adulation to see on the PGA Tour, as well. Guys assume to all adulation it over here. And a lot of of the guys that are absolutely talking awful of it are the earlier guys abnormally enough. Yeah, I anticipate it’s a abundant move."

Rory McIlroy echoed Spieth's endorsement.

"I like it. I anticipate it's a acceptable abstraction to let guys abrasion shorts in convenance rounds," McIlroy added. "I apparently just charge a brace added weeks in the sun to get my legs out in public! I anticipate all the guys adore cutting shorts, abnormally in practice, and abnormally if it gets hot, I anticipate it's a acceptable idea."

Although the European Tour's advertisement will alone accomplish way for shorts during convenance circuit — and not during absolute tournaments — abounding golf traditionalists about anon lambasted the decision, fearing the avant-garde sartorial abstraction of cutting shorts on the golf advance will eventually advance to tournaments on the PGA Tour.

Acknowledging that he wears shorts if he hits the links over the summer, The Big Lead's Michael Shamburger bound a section advantaged "PGA Tour Golfers Cutting Shorts During Tournaments Should Never Happen". From Shamburger:

But really, what’s agreeable for a beholder about a able golfer in shorts; the adhesive white legs? The clip of play doesn’t crave that legs be chargeless like in soccer or basketball. Guys aren’t antagonism to their brawl or active to the tee box and the pants beat are about dri-fit getting that is acutely breezy.

He continued:

Call me a traditionalist, alarm me stuffy, alarm me rigid, but I don’t wish to see the top guys searching like weekend warriors. I don’t wish to see the top guys searching like…me. There’s an air of aplomb surrounding a able golfer who is able-bodied dressed.

Shamburger was by no agency the alone getting to disagree with the European Tour's adapted policy, but his altercation acquired a additional beachcomber of backfire — backfire to the shorts' backlash, if you will.

To many, the disapproval of able golfers in shorts seemed to actualize an unnecessarily old-school access to a historically aloof action already too generally — and too generally appropriately — criticized for classism.

"The naysayers will point to the abrasion of standards and the abandonment of tradition," expounded James Corrigan of the Telegraph. "What a amount of complete and absolute balderdash. Accept you apparent John Daly’s compatible nowadays? Fine, it complies with the rules, but to any faculty of sartorial amenities it deserves punishment. And as far as attitude goes, that complacent agglomeration who accept themselves to be its greatest adherent are ambagious it with pomposity. Golf is never in a worse ablaze than if it is casting in the billow acquired by attitude getting alloyed with pomposity."

If this all seems like abundant ado about nothing, able-bodied ... the Masters is beneath than three months away!

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