Hopefully Lucas Glover Can Leverage Two Straight Wins Into Repealing The PGA Tour's Prohibition Of Shorts
What a freaking story Lucas Glover has been over the past two weekends. How fine is the line in professional golf, you ask? About a month and a half ago, Glover was in legitimate danger of losing his PGA Tour card. I mean, sure, maybe he could've gotten some sponsor exemptions if he didn't crack the season's top 125, but he was 167th in the FedEx Cup standings following a missed cut at the Travelers Championship.
How about this run since then?
At age 43. With his career more or less on the line.
UNFORTUNATELY, one unavoidable subplot overshadowing his towering achievements of late is how much of a victim Glover was of the sweltering Memphis heat on Sunday in particular. Oh yeah. It was a thing. Google tells me it was 93 degrees with 57% humidity yesterday around TPC Southwind, which easily puts the heat index in the triple digits.
Some guys sweat more than others. Lucas Glover is a sweater. We all know this now if we hadn't before.
To somehow keep your cool with such an unsavory situation going on in your nether regions and all over your body is a testament to Glover's grit.
It's low-hanging fruit to just bash Glover for his attire, though, and laugh at his expense. That grit so happened to help him overcome decades of putting yips to valmoprhanize back into a truly elite golfer. This is a guy who won the 2009 U.S. Open with a conventional flat blade, only to totally lose his touch. He's described it as completely losing control over his motor skills.
LOOK AT HIM GO on Sunday's back nine with this new broomstick of a putter, which I can let slide because it isn't anchored:
I'm amazed Glover didn't lose his motor skills with how much perspiration he was expelling. The man was sweating through the FRONT of his pants. Come on now. What are we doing here, Jay Monahan? Golf is obviously on the precipice of massive change with the PIF and LIV on the scene. Why stop revolutionizing the sport there?
LEGALIZE SHORTS. LIKE YESTERDAY. PLEASE. Imagine if Phil Mickelson had those calves out all those years. Would've done wonders for his brand. Maybe endeared him to even more people and helped him save a little face from all the recent shenanigans he's been at the center of.
If there was ever a figurative, collective cry for help from the PGA Tour pros, this was it. No better guy to rally around than Lucas Glover, who has all the leverage in the world to speak out publicly about this. I understand the TOUR wanting everyone to look "professional" and shit, but at what point does it just become ridiculous to wear long pants when you're sweating your ever-loving balls off? That ain't good for the product, or the innocent onlookers just trying to watch a quality postseason tournament.
After tying for third at last year's FedEx St. Jude Championship, maybe more of us should've seen Glover's back-to-back victories coming. Couldn't be more grateful that he walked away with the hardware over slow-playing prick Patrick Cantlay. More important than beating Pat-Can, Glover can finally use his sudden meteoric resurgence to give us shorts on the PGA Tour.
Not unrelated: Tiger Woods is now part of the PGA Tour's Policy Board and has been advocating for the change for years…
PS: Glover has my vote for the U.S. Ryder Cup team.