Paige Spiranac calls for PGA Tour make rule change to make it extra like LIV Golf
Golf influencer Paige Spiranac has blasted the PGA Tour’s guidelines after a number of gamers suffered within the hovering temperatures on the FedEx St. Jude Championship over the weekend. The former professional believes the Tour ought to fall consistent with LIV Golf, which has extra relaxed costume code guidelines together with shorts being permitted in any respect occasions.
Some high-class golf was performed within the first occasion of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, with 43-year-old Lucas Glover having fun with a sensational renaissance, successful in back-to-back weeks thanks largely to a change of putter. But the 2009 U.S. Open champion suffered as a lot as anybody within the discipline within the hovering temperatures and suffocating humidity at TPC Southwind close to Memphis, Tennessee.
Glover backed up his triumph on the Wyndham Championship final week by defeating Patrick Cantlay in a playoff, holding off challenges from a stellar leaderboard together with Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood and Jordan Spieth. Glover has thrust himself into the dialog for September’s U.S. Ryder Cup staff because of this.
But most golf followers on social media as a substitute had been speaking concerning the state of Glover’s sweat-drenched clothes, significantly his pants as he battled down the stretch in temperatures in extra of 100 levels Fahrenheit on Sunday with humidity factored in. Glover was seen dipping his fingers in ice buckets a number of occasions in a bid to chill down.
Spiranac, 30, has nearly 4 million Instagram followers. Since her faculty {and professional} profession led to 2016, the San Diego State University alum has turned her consideration to modeling and content material creation on the earth of golf. She advised followers on X – the platform previously often known as Twitter – the struggles all through the week at TPC Southwind present the PGA Tour’s guidelines are outdated.
“The men on the PGA Tour should absolutely be able to wear shorts, and the rule needs to change right now,” she stated. “Lucas Glover won for the second week in a row in a hot and humid Memphis. He also won for the worst documented case of swamp a** that we have ever seen.
“The guys had been completely dying. They had been sticking their fingers within the ice coolers to convey their physique temperature down. It is 2023, get it collectively, give the blokes an choice to put on shorts.”
Glover – who said he did not “get this moist within the bathe” on Saturday – was not the only man to struggle with the heat at the St. Jude Championship; Harris English’s caddie Eric Larson required medical treatment for heat stroke, according to Golf Monthly. Spieth said after the event his sweaty clothes made him feel “five pounds heavier,” adding he would have worn shorts if he had the option.
Spiranac dismissed suggestions that shorts should remain banned on the Tour due to “tradition.” She concluded: “You’re saying that within the air-con in your good, cool sofa ingesting an ice chilly beer. Of course, you don’t thoughts. But these guys are athletes enjoying in excessive circumstances. Let them put on shorts.”