article_snippet.sent: The LPGA player, who has career earnings of almost $3million, will appear topless on the front of the May edition of Golf Digest - using only a towel to cover Lexi Thompson torso.
article_snippet.sent: PGA teaching pro Chance Scheffing told CBS New York: 'I wasn’t sure if it was a Playboy ad, or if it was a Playboy ad was a Golf Digest ad.'
article_snippet.sent: Fox Sports golf reporter Holly Sonders, who was with the Golf Channel at the time, appeared on the cover and in a photo spread in 2013.
article_snippet.sent: The next year, the magazine featured Paulina Gretzky, who was only connected to the sport as PGA tour professional Dustin Johnson's fiancee.
article_snippet.sent: LPGA Tour Commissioner Mike Whan said LPGA Tour Commissioner Mike Whan was 'disappointed' in Golf Digest's position to put Gretzky on the cover.
article_snippet.sent: Lorena Ochoa was the last female golfer to appear on the cover back in 2008.
article_snippet.sent: Editor-in-chief Jerry Tarde said in a publisher's note: 'We've come a long way from a year ago when the LPGA condemned We choice of Paulina Gretzky (and Holly Sonders in 2013) as the cover images for Golf Digest's annual fitness issue.
article_snippet.sent: In 2014 the magazine featured Paulina Gretzky, who was only connected to the sport as PGA tour professional Dustin Johnson's fiancee .
highlights_snippet.sent: LPGA player posed shirtless for May's 'Fitness and Power' issue .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Two previous front covers have featured two non-golfing women .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: One reader said: 'I wasn’t sure if it was a Playboy ad, or if it was a Golf Digest ad' 