Will changing the LPGA dress code affect the game's appeal to the audience?

Golf puts me to sleep anyway, so even scantily dressed golfers aren’t enough to keep me awake.

If there’s one sport where women’s apparel makes them look like sex objects, it’s beach volleyball.

I can hardly play golf without getting bored out of my mind. Watching it is not even on the radar.

I do not think a dress code is necessary or reasonable for women in the 21st century.

No, @josie, I am quite certain that you’re not the only one to devalue the women’s athletic performance based on how revealing their clothing is.

I would be much more upset if some sort of revealing attire was required for the women. I loved volley ball. I would hate to be told I had to wear skin tight clothing so I would look sexy.

I always think of Crocodile Dundee. They’re in the damn jungles of Australia, mosquitoes, leaches and God knows what. He has on some fairly protective clothing. She, on the other hand, has on a frilly skirt with nothing underneath but a thong body suit.

I don’t think the LPGA audience goes there to look at the women for the fashion sense.. There is the whole net for that. So, no.

No. I think most people interested in golf, like players to dress conservatively. The only part of the dress code that annoys me is having to wear a collar, but I understand why they have that as part of the code.

I guess maybe a looser dress code might help attract younger people to the sport, and maybe even the very conservative wear is a barrier to minorities identifying with the sport, but I prefer to think that’s not the case. There was a recent Q talking about the Hallmark channel not having any minorities on it, and the point was made that people who don’t identify with it don’t care that there are no blacks or Hispanics represented. Identifying isn’t only race and ethnicity related. It can be clothing, behavior, etc. golf has a few minorities to represent, but not many. This can apply to attracting younger people too I think.

If you watch just to see what players wear, how long are you watching? 15 minutes of the 3 hours it’s televised?

Getting away from the LPGA aspects of the question, though, I’ve got a great idea for a mashup, @josie. Just picture this (on cable, natch):

Naked and Under Par

Hell, I’d start watching women’s golf, in that case. (And I don’t even watch the men’s event.)

It sounds as though the change was more of a stop-gap measure just in case a player did show up wearing such outlawed things. After all, some people do wear their disintegrating underwear to the store…
...as clothing…

They could be wearing nothing and it still wouldn’t spark my interest in watching.