Golf Digest can't stop putting topless golfers on its covers

Dear Golf Digest:

This is a cover, I guess. It has a woman wearing a towel, golfer Lexi Thompson, as the magazine's cover for their "fitness and power" issue.

I landed on the May cover of @GolfDigest ! So pumped to represent fitness & power #GirlPower : http://t.co/ucXw4JTnSmpic.twitter.com/u4ys8WLLyv

— Lexi Thompson (@Lexi) April 2, 2015

It is the second topless cover in a row for the magazine, as the editor points out here. (Rory McIlroy got the Green David treatment last month, or something like that.) That note hasn't stopped criticism of the cover for sexualizing yet another female athlete in a national publication, or for at least not giving men the same proportion of shameless golf-themed sexifying.

Two things here. First, I just want to make sure that, as a fantastically out-of-shape person, we're being inclusive here, both with our definitions of power and of fitness.

Second: here is a link to a barely SFW and probably NSFW picture of golf legend Tom Kite wearing nothing but a napkin, an ancient heart monitor, socks, and some athletic shoes.

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