Dottie Pepper covered 35 tournaments in 2009 between NBC and The Golf Channel.
It is what passes as an off-season in golf – yes, even as tournaments go on all around us – so this is when decisions are made for the upcoming season.
Not only by players, but by those who call the plays.
In this case, it’s Dottie Pepper, the one-time LPGA Tour standout who has made the move into TV with great success. Almost too great, however, because to cut back on her heavy workload and give a bit more stability to her life, the two-time major winner has chosen to leave the Golf Channel and focus solely on her NBC job.
It’s an understandable move, given that in 2009 Pepper worked 35 tournaments between the Golf Channel and NBC. That’s a lot of airports, security lines and hassles – and too little time at home – which is where Pepper would like to be more often now that she’s moved back to the upstate New York area.
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jimmyj (anonymous) says...
Pepper is right there with Judy Rankin as the two best ladies in TV golf. The Golf Channel really needed her high quality work - which seems to be terribly lacking amongst the rest of their crew of female announcers! I don't blame her for getting away from that whole GC scene but the LPGA really needs her and good announcing now more than ever. They obviously couldn't or wouldn't pay the big bucks to keep her exclusively with the GC - a shortsighted and big mistake.
November 6, 2009 at 3:31 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
memoynagh (anonymous) says...
AMEN
November 6, 2009 at 9:19 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
supergolfdude (anonymous) says...
Too bad The Golf Channel doesn't do the right thing and put Kelly Tilghman back to the position of interviewing players. She's the worst golf announcer - bar none - in television history - a blabbering idiot with very little knowledge of men's tournament golf and a sense of humor that she insists on bombarding us with that is frankly void of anything humorous or interesting.
November 7, 2009 at 9:57 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
dwyer (anonymous) says...
The Golf Channel will surely miss Miss Pepper as she was the greatest. If they get rid of the Lady with the monotone they will be better off.
November 9, 2009 at 9:19 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
courtgolf (anonymous) says...
Pepper and Rankin are the best - but that really isn't saying much. Pepper doesn't understand how far the men hit the ball, and is clueless about the shotmaking abilities they have. Her mind says to chip out of heavy rough, while the man says 15' left or right of the flag. Her green reading is wrong too often, and she doesn't understand the short game skills of the men. She just doesn't get it. And her constant laughing at whatever comes out of her mouth is annoying to say the least.
I like her personality, and loved watching her play. She was an absolute bulldog on the golf course - but having her on PGA Tour broadcast isn't good.
I know she does her homework, but her attempts to copy Johnny Miller and his lame, insult the player style hasn't done her any good. I'm glad she'll just be doing NBC so she won't be on as much.
November 9, 2009 at 11:48 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
bigeasy628 (anonymous) says...
Dottie is good but give me a break about Kelly, she's not a loud mouthed know it all insulting announcer (J. Miller). She can play but is an TV personality now.
November 9, 2009 at 2:51 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )