Golf Channel: nice choice of words

I was going to post a lighten up everyone, but wow.

I assumed it would be something like "Tiger's ball is lynched on that brush" or "Tiger just lynches up his grip for the three iron."


In this day and age, that was way out of bounds. Pun intended.

 

There's not enough in that little brief to explain how, why or in what context it was said.

Hey, I'm not saying it should have been said. It should not have.

I just want to hear/read the whole piece.

Like, I don't understand why she'd use it in the first place. It makes no sense the way it's written in that report. It simply reads as flat out racist.

 

Oh give her a break. She went to Duke, probably before they got all sensitive.

 

Young players should "lynch Tiger Woods in a dark alley?"

That's just stupid.

Where you gonna find a tree in a dark alley?

Seriously, I am trying to find a context in which that quote might be used that would make it an innocent mistake and am coming up blank.

 

She was born in South Carolina. I'm guessing she heard it growing up, and she never really thought about the connotation when she said it. She does play-by-play, so this was not scripted. She just said it in a long telecast.

I'm also pretty sure it was absent of malice.

But the context is needed.

 

Yeah, this is my question. Like, I just can't fathom a reason for saying it. And we're only given the one quote to work with.

 

Ouch.

 

That's such ugly imagery it would be offensive no matter who she was talking about. I would want to hear the entire thing in context as well, but it sounds to me like a brief suspension is in order.

 

Kelly Tilghman: the hottest little racist in golf media.

Seriously though, I'm betting she's mortified and had no clue what she was saying.