Tilghman Comments on LPGA Players Questioned

ORLANDO, FL - One day after suspending anchor Kelly Tilghman for joking that the best way for other golfers to stop Tiger Woods would be to "lynch him in a back alley", The Golf Channel announced today that it was reviewing Tilghman's comments about LPGA Tour golfers after reports of other inappropriate comments surfaced.

A blog entry on Golfing Report Magazine chronicled at least a dozen questionable remarks made by Tilghman about prominent LPGA golfers over the past several seasons on recap shows such as The 19th Hole.

Among the remarks mentioned in the article:

• On Morgan Pressel (who is Jewish), after she won the Kraft Nabisco Championship at age 18: "If she keeps this kind of play up, the other players are going to need to put her on the Kindertransport if they want to win again."
• On No. 1 ranked golfer Lorena Ochoa (from Mexico): "That was such a dominating performance, the only thing that could have stopped her was a call to INS and a trip in a van back over the border."
• On superstar Annika Sorenstam (from Sweden), after a tough defeat at the 2007 Mastercard Classic: "Perhaps she should take a cue from so many of her countrymen and kill herself."
• On former major winner Se Ri Pak (from Korea): "It looks like she's put on some weight in the time off since her injury - maybe she needs to add more salads and less Chicken Fried Cat."
• On former Player of the Year Karrie Webb (from Australia): "And after missing the par putt to get into the tournament, she probably feels just like she does when she gets done being double-team by a pair of drunken kangaroos. Which I'm sure she does, all the time. Because she's Australian.
• On Women's British Open winner and sex symbol Natalie Gulbis: "You have to wonder if she wouldn't be more successful if she spent more time practicing and less time being such a skanky ho-bag whore."
  

Golf Channel officials said that they would have to review tapes of the broadcasts to see what context the statements were made in.

"Obviously, this is not the kind of thing that we condone on our broadcasts, ever," said Golf Channel spokesperson Jim McGurty. "But to be honest, no one pays a lot of attention to what anyone says about the LPGA Tour, so it's pretty understandable how this could have slipped past us. Broads playing golf - give me a fucking break."

Posted by The Duke of Everything at 3:21 PM