The LPGA Tells Players That A Much Stricter Dress Code Is Coming And It's Ridiculous

Golf Digest- Professional golf has become increasingly progressive when it comes to all-things fashion. Rickie Fowler regularly wears joggers with high tops; Nike started making polos without collars; and the European Tour allows its golfers to wear shorts during practice rounds. So it’d seem like a curious time for any of golf’s governing bodies to enforce a stricter dress code that limits an athlete’s style options. But that’s exactly what the LPGA Tour has done. Starting on Monday, July 17, the LPGA Tour will enforce a dress code policy that cracks down on athletic wear. In an email directly to Tour players on July 2, LPGA Player President Vicki Goetze-Ackerman outlined a list of items that will no longer be allowed. The email was marked as “important” and had a subject line that read, “Updated Policy to begin in Toledo.” Here’s the new dress code as it appeared in the email:

- Racerback with a mock or regular collar are allowed (no collar = no
racerback)
- Plunging necklines are NOT allowed.
- Leggings, unless under a skort or shorts, are NOT allowed
- Length of skirt, skort, and shorts MUST be long enough to not see your bottom area (even if covered by under shorts) at any time, standing or bent over.
- Appropriate attire should be worn to pro-am parties. You should be dressing yourself to present a professional image. Unless otherwise told “no,” golf clothes are acceptable. Dressy jeans are allowed, but cut-offs or jeans with holes are NOT allowed.
- Workout gear and jeans (all colors) NOT allowed inside the ropes
- Joggers are NOT allowed

Well what the fuck is this? Are they serious? Read that list of new dress code regulations one more time. That reads like something out of the 1950s. Things like “plunging necklines are NOT allowed” and “shorts must be long enough to not see your bottom” and “cut-offs or jeans with holes are NOT allowed” are straight out of something you’d hear during the Leave It To Beaver era. Think about it this way. The LPGA is enforcing a dress code that limits athletic wear. How does that make any sense at all? I guess this shouldn’t be all that surprising. Just when a major governing body of golf has the opportunity to step into modern times and embrace the next generation, they throw up all over themselves. Just a massive stream of vomit right down the front on their shirt. Some of the LPGA’s biggest starts like Michelle Wie wear things on that list. Imagine the PGA Tour telling Rickie or Rory not to wear joggers. I wanna know what caused this. What caused the LPGA to turn back the clock and become an uptight dad? It seems super sudden. And right in the middle of the season no less. Weird. No sport loves embracing the future at a glacier-like pace more than golf.