Bad Precedent

Professional golfer Henrik Stenson, confronted with possibility that he might soil his nice golf clothes hitting out of a water hazard, took his clothes off.

“Just the way God created me,” Stenson said.

Well, that isn’t entirely true, unless he was born wearing boxer shorts and a golf glove, along with having a wedge in his hands.

Stenson hacked the ball out of the muck, got dressed standing in the rough off the left side of the fairway, and wound up making perhaps the most entertaining bogey of his life.

Entertaining perhaps, but the danger is that when pros start doing something, amateurs soon follow. First it was those long putters. Then the next thing you know it's fairway woods from shaggy grass just off the green. Now, apparently, it's going to be big fat naked guys covered with mud.

I think the USGA Rules Committee needs to step in and put an end to this.

Comments

[Syd]

I almost wish Phil Mickeltits would do it too.

[Wally]

on the other hand it could make women's golf more interesting

[steve d]

Wow, who cares? You are a very petty person, arent you? Anyway, it probably wasnt because he was afraid of soiling his nice neat golf clothes. But, rather he decided to take the shot and didnt feel like walking around in muddy clothes for another 3.5 hours.