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Caddies' Contentiousness Grows With PGA Tour Due To Perceived Inconsistent Dress Code

The contentiousness between the PGA Tour and its caddies "seems to be escalating following an incident on Saturday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational," according to Rex Hoggard of GOLFCHANNEL.com. Duane Bock, who caddies for Kevin Kisner, was told by a Tour official following the third round that the red shorts he was wearing "didn’t conform to the circuit’s dress code." Bock is among the 167 caddies who "filed a class-action lawsuit against the Tour last month." Following Sunday’s final round, Bock said that he had "no problem with officials policing what caddies wear, but that he would like to see more consistency." Bock's comments came after Gareth Lord, Henrik Stenson’s caddie, on Friday "wore a similar pair of red shorts." The Tour "said nothing to him about it" (GOLFCHANNEL.com, 3/23).

FEELIN' KINDA SUNDAY: GOLF DIGEST's John Strege noted the first 20 tournaments in the '14-15 PGA Tour season have produced 20 different winners, but parity "does not work ... for professional golf, an individual sport that thrives when elite players win with what qualifies as regularity, three or four victories in a season." Matt Every won last week's event at Bay Hill, and it is "not that Every is not a worthy winner," as he also won it in '14. But it "doesn't further the cause when tournaments are won by those ranked 96th in the world" (GOLFDIGEST.com, 3/22).

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