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I do not care one way or the other. I focus my attention on the golf.

No, I don't want to see the pros in shorts. Yes, it is tradition, but golf is also a job for the professionals. Looking like a professional means dressing like a professional and that means wearing pants while you're doing your job....just like the stock broker, or lawyer or any business man. As a restaureant owner, I wear a nice pair of pants with a shirt and tie to work. Or look at it this way - if you're going to a nice upscale restaurant, you're going to dress up a little. I think the same goes for a nice upscale club - one dresses up for the occassion.

As long as they take of their hat...

Ladies in jeans and stilettos. Ya, I'll vote for that.

Come on Diane, you know what I mean. Yes, I agree what you say about the women in jeans and stilettos, but that's not acceptable dressing up. Obviously dress codes have gotten more casual over the years but that doesn't make it right. I did mention tradtion, and just because some finer restaurants allow it(with business the way it is, they refuse no one) doesn't mean the golf profession should. As far as basketball players go, that's their uniform. You don't see them deviating from that.

Of course, we're not really talking about jeans in restaurants, we're talking about professional golfers wearing shorts during tournaments; and to that, the answer is still the same - their uniform dictates that they wear pants just as basketball uniforms dictate they wear shorts.
On a side note, I read somewhere that most professional golfers wouldn't wear shorts even if they were given the option. I know Tiger wouldn't wear shorts. He was asked about that after the PGA and said no, he wouldn't have worn shorts even in that heat.

They are fit, young guys, so they look quite a bit better in shorts than golfers would. Bump-n-run's contributions to this thread pretty much sum up how I feel about golfer's in shorts!

I second this. Shorts will never happen. Can you imagine John Daly in shorts

Pants are not that much hotter these days, they make them out of pretty thin material. Pants demonstrate more class

Saw him that way at Fuzzy Zoeller's event right after the Open. Cargo shorts with his shirt untucked....not that bad of a look, but definitely not professional .

There are a lot of female golfers who I'd prefer to see less of, but I don't let it get to me. I think the whole traditional thing is weak arguement. If you are such a purist, the oversized drivers must have you shaking your fist at the tv pretty hard

The classy arguement is pretty weak as well. Judging by the personal lives of some golfers on tour, they are regular people like you and I

There are some traditions that i think should be maintained and this is one of them I ,wonder why does the thought of male pro golfers in shorts solicit such debate,when the thought of the ladies in some of the shorts/skirts that they almost wear attract none or very little? (not complaining you understand)

The attire of the ladies tour as I see it is a marketing tool...with the Ladies season running concurrently with the men's, the LPGA will always take a backseat and be on the short side of the fight for a similar demographic, and attractive presentation of their product is a large part of how they get their market share...now Laura Davies isn't going to be the face of the tour, but I would say that the powers that be on the LPGA and the European version are quite savvy marketers and know what sells and what to allow and even encourage...Ochoa is #1, and Annika was for some time, but I constanly see pictures of Pressel, Creamer and Gublis on anything associated with ladies golf...it is no conincidence...