Beard Liberation Front
21st July
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Open Golf: campaigners salute Shane Lowry, the first winner with a beard since 1882
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has saluted Shane Lowry the winner of the Open Golf at Royal Portrush as he became the first person with a beard to take the claret jug since 1882.
Another hirsute golfer England’s Tommy Fleetwood was second
All the winners of The Open since 1945 have been clean shaven although there were some moustache wearers in the earlier years of the twentieth century.
The last winner to wear a beard was Scotsman Bob Ferguson who won The Open three times from 1880 to 1882
The campaigners say it was not just about the beard but how golfers managed to get their beard to interact with what were often difficult air currents to allow maximum advantage in terms of both ball distance and accuracy.
The campaigners say that golf has been the most clean-shaven of sports for so long that the media have struggled to grasp the significance of a hirsute winner with the exception of the Telegraph’s golf correspondent the slightly hirsute James Corrigan
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, golf has gone from being one of the most clean-shaven of all sports ten years ago to one where Beard Power was centre stage on the last day of The Open. It’s truly a sign of the hirsute times.
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