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Golfer Thomas Pieters says PGA altered his head shot to hide curly hair

Thomas-Pieters

Thomas Pieters has long, somewhat curly hair, and the PGA Tour apparently doesn’t approve of it.

Pieters, a 23-year-old golfer from Belgium who won twice on the European Tour last year, noticed earlier this week that there is something about his official PGA headshot that doesn’t quite look authentic.

Guess the PGA Tour doesn't like my curly hair, so they gave me a photoshop haircut…The pic on the left is the…

Posted by Thomas Pieters on Tuesday, January 26, 2016

That’s right, someone gave him a digital haircut.

Judging by how surprised Pieters was, we’re guessing the PGA Tour didn’t ask him to cut his hair or anything like that. If you go through some of the other player pages on the Tour’s official website, you’ll notice this could be a theme. For example, this is about the shortest and most manicured you’ll ever see Bubba Watson’s hair:

Bubba-Watson

If the PGA cares so much about long hair, we can only imagine how they must feel when Tiger Woods says stuff like this on national television. Perhaps Pieters will get his hair back if he wins a major.

UPDATE: PGA Tour executive vice president admitted the photo was altered as part of the standard process to prepare it for TV, but he says the vendors went “a bit too heavy” with the cropping.

“In the standard process of prepping new headshots for broadcast TV, electronic scoreboards and other uses – which always requires a bit of retouching and color-correction – our vendor was a bit too heavy-handed in the editing of Thomas Pieters’ photo. The image has been returned more closely to the original photo – although some editing is always required – and reissued to our database. We regret this sequence of events and meant no disrespect to Thomas. We think he has a great head of hair.”

H/T Golf Channel

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