The Golf Channel’s decision to suspect anchor Kelly Tilghman for two weeks for her unfortunate comments about Tiger Woods is appropriate. In case you missed it, during last week’s broadcast of the Mercedes-Benz Championship, Tilghman and analyst Nick Faldo were discussion which young players could challenge Woods on the tour this year. Faldo suggested that several of them “should just gang up for a while" on him. "Lynch him in a back alley," Tilghman replied. Oops. As the Rev. Al Sharpton pointed out, “lynching is not murder in general, it's not assault in general. It's a specific racial term…” Sharpton, of course, wanted Tilghman fired. But Tilghman, who apparently is friends with Tiger apologized to him and to Golf Channel viewers. Mark Steinberg, Tiger’s agent, said Woods accepted the apology. "Regardless of the choice of words used, we know unequivocally that there was no ill-intent in her comments." In this day of political correctness, no perceived racial comment should go unpunished. My only problem with the Golf Channel is that they were very late to note the controversy on their web site even after many other media outlets had reported it. As for Tilghman, I doubt anyone is going to miss her.
Hitting range balls while wondering whatever happened to Sandra Haynie.
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- Mr. Fairway’s love affair with the game of golf began in junior high. He once made his living as a journalist covering high school sports, cops and robbers and politics. Today, Mr. Fairway is a public relations consultant and a widely-published freelance golf writer. His current USGA handicap index is 9.3 and he averages 50-plus rounds a year.