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A golfer was fined by the PGA today for refusing to take off his hat when shaking his playing partners hand.
"I had a real bad case of hat head and I didn't feel like taking my hat off and exposing it to the world," the defiant golfer said. "So fine me." He is appealing the fine, saying it's a stupid rule to begin with.
A check of the rulebook found that there is in fact no rule that requires a player to take off his hat when shaking hands after a round. Golf historians said it all started with Tiger Woods several years ago.
"Tiger was the first guy that I know of to take his hat off when shaking hands. There is no evidence of anyone doing it prior to 1997," the historian said. "Now, everyone does it just because Tiger does it," he said.
Miss Manners could not be reached for comment, but her assistant, Mr. Manners said it was not necessary to remove ones hat when shaking hands. "It's only done in golf. In cultures around the world, people leave their hat on when greeting each other. Why the hell take your hat off?" Mr Manners wondered.
Fans are disturbed by it, especially when players with long hair do it, like Phil Mickelson. Mickelson's hair is always matted down and looks terrible, said one fan. "He should leave the hat on." It's disturbing when bald guys do it too, because you can see the sweat pouring off their head. One fan thinks pros who take their hat off when shaking hands should be fined. "I don't like seeing them without their hats on," the fan said.
Incidentally, speaking of origins, the origin of the high five is believed to have been started by the Redskins in the fun bunch era of the early 80s. Remember when they would all high five themselves in the end zone. Kudos to them.
That's today's fake news. Next week, an inside look at the politics of golf and why all PGA tour golfers are to the right of Attila the Hun on the political spectrum.