Looking at Shane Lowry, John Daly , and so many other golfers, it’d be hard to imagine the PGA Tour being intolerable towards… facial hair. Yet, legend has it that former commissioner Deane Beman enforced a ‘No Beard’ edict (never official, however), believing golf a gentleman’s game demanding clean-shaven pros. Of course, some resisted, and one such story cracked up Brandel Chamblee. The one that unfolded during a pro-am event in Tucson in 1997.

In the debut video episode of The Favorite Chamblee , Bailey and Chamblee hosted golf veteran Gary McCord, who confessed he nearly sued the Tour over that very thing: “I showed up with a beard. I don’t know, and they told me, “You can’t wear a beard for the ProAm.” [The officials said] Deane Beman said he’ll find and suspend you if you wear t

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