Camilo Has To Get Fined For This!

If nothing else, because all of the VP wives in Ponte Vedra will buy an issue and then subject their doughy husbands to questions about why they aren't in the gym more often.

Darren Rovell tweets Camilo Villegas' ESPN The Magazine "Body Issue" shot:

Update on Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 10:50 AM by Geoff

**The making of video...

Comments

[Wisconsin Reader]

The PGA Tour has come a long way from the days when "Fat Jack" - Ray Floyd - Stads -
were the poster boys. . . Gary Player ought to be proud (and he no doubt takes some credit) from the fitness exhibited in this photo and the look of a majority of the top players today. . . The Ryder Cup - due to the rain delays and the resulting long days of golf - did not produce any concern about fatigue given the condition of the players. . .

[Mark Holthoff]

Speaking from the POV of the (apparently rare) gay golfer, I actually find that photo kind of gross. He looks disturbingly free of even a single fat cell. Perhaps a case of exercise bulimia? In any case, someone get that man a sandwich!

[Del the Funk]

Mark, that pause-and-go video was filmed at Big Rec wasn't it??

[Boop!]

As an avid reader of the blog, but not a poster, I feel I have to chime in here. I am a heterosexual female, and I do not find this attractive at all. Plus, it looks like the head is photoshopped onto the body. Whoever you are, please eat a cookie!

[vwgolfer]

He looks like Lizard Boy. What the hell is wrong with his head and left hand. Where is his left arm? Photoshop screw up. This is absurd. What a embarrassment. Unattractive. WTF? What is this? Who is this suppose to appeal to? Should he contact Lisa Pavin for wardrobe ideas?

[d.b.cooper]

Pitiful.

A disgrace.

[johnnnycz]

WTF???!!!

He's always looked/acted like an egomaniac fairycake....this proves it. He must have a shaving sponsor otherwise he's spending alot of cash on hair removal.


Perhaps after this cover shot kind strangers will be inspired to yank him out of the gym and take him to Quiznos.

[Helena Johnson-Smythe, Committeeman]

Camilla Vagina is more like it.

[FWIW]

Chill folks. I don't care at all for Viilegas because of his dismissive arrogance. But I sure wouldn't mind looking like this myself. I know I wouldn't be remotely embarrassed by this.

[smails]

AHHHHHHHH!

[Old Hornet]

This pic explains why most of us would be in traction if we went after the ball like he does.

[RM]

There's something about his glance...that's kind of pathetic. Would have looked more "statue-esque" and masculine if it had just been a standard profile. Instead, it's as if he's looking at the camera in a desperate plea for approval. Sorry, Camilo, I don't think you're going to be getting it from many of us. This was a mistake, and above all else, I WISH I HADN'T SEEN IT! It's actually one of the worst photographs I've ever seen. There's a lot of blame to go around here.

[d.b.cooper]

It was indeed a mistake, a bad one.

I think in time he'll come to realize that, but he will never admit it.

[Ky Laffoon's Ghost]

Why is he lining up a putt from what looks to be a good distance from the green? Anyway, I saw this movie once on a Saturday afternoon when I was about 8 years old. It was called "Wasp Woman" and it scared the hell out of me.

[Amen Coroner]

I think we should call this art 'The Ultra Life' and do another one with Jimenez as the anti!

[thusgone]

yuck.

[Al]

what an idiot

shame he can't actually putt the ball after he's finished his pose

mcdowell is 5 foot and 12 stone -- but he's 10 times the player

duval lost it after he got fitter

[Press Agent]

Wow!, the cattiness coming from you flaccid round-bellies is funny. You really think Camillo had any input into how they framed the photograph? where he was to look? how it was set up? He just did what the photographer and stylist told him to do to get the shot they wanted. I don't particularly care for the photo myself, but the vitriol coming out of some of you guys tells me all the rippling muscle and tightness you see there makes you feel a little insecure. Don't worry boys, your wife still finds you attractive - (at least that's what she tells you.....)

[RM]

Press Agent, thus my line: "There's a lot of blame to go around here." Yes, I blame the photographer and photo editor. Could have been pretty cool if he had been looking straight ahead like he normally would to line up the putt, instead of looking awkwardly back at the camera as if to say "like this?". Kind of reminds me of the naked episode of Seinfeld when the girl was straining to remove the top off a bottle.

[d.b.cooper]

Press Agent,

You assume way too much.

[d.b.cooper]

"what an idiot"

All that needs to be said.

[M. Taylor]

He could have just worn a jockstrap and stand straight and tall lining up a putt.

This picture is very odd. The guys on the PGA Tours will be snickering behind his back. I hope he wins a few tournament in the next few months so people will forget this.

[Bill S.]

Press Agent--I'm with d.b.cooper
creepy response--"rippling muscle and tightness"--Geez??/ You've certainly given it a good look.
We're not all flabby guys...

[Zenyatta]

What an idiot!! He needs to grow a winter coat. NOW

[vwgolfer]

Press agent-Camilio needs a new press agent. No flabby stuff here by the way.

[vwgolfer]

ESPN needs to quit making homo erotic magazines. OMG what a freakin joke this is.

[The Q]

DB,

Just remember when you assume, you make an ass of Uma Thurman.

[Jordan]

Yikes! Bad photoshop job is the nicest thing you can say about this.

[d.b.cooper]

Jon B.,

I don't give a rat's ass if Villegas is gay or straight.

The photo is just wrong. It is about having some freaking dignity and class.

[Mark Holthoff]

Del the Funk -- that is Big Rec, indeed. I play there every other weekend with one of the pause n go founders, Phil Reed. Fun course!

[Del the Funk]

LOVE Big Rec! Time for another visit for me as our weather out east is about to get lousy.

Cheers.

[Claude]

I think it's hilarious.

[Erik J. Barzeski]

To those those saying Camilo needs to "have class" or similar, I think it's simply a display of the difference between how we view the naked human form in the U.S. versus other countries. A person's body is not seen as shamefully as we tend to see it in the U.S. Perhaps he simply sees his body as something he's proud of.

That said, I don't really care for the image, for some of the other reasons stated above, but I don't blame Camilo or think less of him for it. That _also_ doesn't mean he won't escape teasing, though, too.

[carnaptious asnd camsteerie]

Gross!

Incidentally, does anyone really believe this photo hasn't been 'enhanced' ... as it were?