The 19th Hole Golf Show: The Great Shorts Controversy of 2016

Shorts are now OK for players to wear during European Tour practice rounds and pro-ams, and the golf world is in a tizzy. Why? Who cares?

And then we put this new policy in the context of the tour's new pace-of-play policy, showing why penalty strokes for slow play are not on the horizon.

Finally, we dig into the Golf Scientist Bryson DeChambeau and why he is such a compelling figure.

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