At The Turn: Golfers hone shorts game at PGA as game’s legwear fixation continues
OTTAWA — “In my prime,” Jack Nicklaus once wrote, “my legs were very strong.”
That was true in more ways than one, it turns out: in 2014, Golf Digest published never-before-seen photos of the eventual 14-time major winner practising in shorts, showcasing a well-muscled pair of tree-trunk legs “more befitting an NFL fullback than the greatest golfer of all time.”
If not for those photos, taken back in 1970 by a star-struck assistant club pro, the golden gams of the Golden Bear might have never seen the light of day — in those days, the sight of a bare-legged touring pro was about as welcome as tinfoil on a toothache.
Times, albeit at golf’s typically glacial pace, are indeed changing.