World’s favorite professional surf commentator Barton Lynch stops shaving face, sprouts most magnificent beard since John “Grizzly” Adams!

Pure man.

Each of us, here, have opinions about facial hair. We see men, or women, walking down the street featuring goatee, mutton chops, a handlebar, amish beard and wonder how it might work but are often too set in our ways to deviate. Derek Rielly, for example, has been rocking the Don Johnson 5 o’clock shadow impeccably for as long as I have known him. I have carried versions of the director, or pencil, mustache for the last decade. The world’s greatest surfer Kelly Slater always and forever clean, zero hint of sprout from tip of head to Adam’s apple.

Barton Lynch, the world’s greatest surf commentator, usually appears before us in the booth as fresh as a baby, rosy cheeks, sparkling eyes but look at this most glorious transformation. At this best style transition surfing has seen in decades.

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I have not seen a beard so fine since John “Grizzly” Adams graced television screens in the late 1970s and don’t know how/why Lynch’s sometime employer, the World Surf League, is not demanding his services each and every contest. Paying him double, in fact, for a beard like that is pure magic and would certainly rescue sagging viewership numbers.

Or is his hirsute the reason that he has not been invited into the booth of late? Too much pure man in the day and age of borderless gender?

Much to ponder.