Hank Haney suspended from Sirius XM radio show

[Alma]

Haney gets SiriusXM ban for LPGA comment

 

[Double Down]

Haney gets SiriusXM ban for LPGA comment

This is what’s going to end his broadcast career.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

In his defense, Robert E. Lee has lots of descendants.

 

[Alma]

Hank Haney’s job is to be able to name six women’s golfers, for starters. And then, of course, he got racist.

 

[DanOregon]

Never understood why a golf person would brag about their ignorance about golf. It's not like the PGA Tour is world renowned. Seriously, walk down the street and you'd have a hard time finding people who could name five players from the PGA Tour. And maybe three or four players could walk into a bar in non-golfing clothes and be recognized.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Never understood why a golf person would brag about their ignorance about golf. It's not like the PGA Tour is world renowned. Seriously, walk down the street and you'd have a hard time finding people who could name five players from the PGA Tour. And maybe three or four players could walk into a bar in non-golfing clothes and be recognized.

Bolded for posterity. Sorry, Dan, I love you but that's all I'm gonna say.

 

[Double Down]

Never understood why a golf person would brag about their ignorance about golf. It's not like the PGA Tour is world renowned. Seriously, walk down the street and you'd have a hard time finding people who could name five players from the PGA Tour. And maybe three or four players could walk into a bar in non-golfing clothes and be recognized.

I suspect Hank can name plenty of players on the LPGA Tour, but he thought it would be funnier to try and combine some MAGA attitude and comedy. He's also been one of the laziest analysts though, so anything is possible.

 

[Alma]

Bolded for posterity. Sorry, Dan, I love you but that's all I'm gonna say.

Five? I think most people can name five. Ten? That doesn’t include Nicklaus and Palmer? I dunno.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Who are the five they'd name?

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Active players? Your average person on the street gets maybe two -- Tiger and Phil.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Maybe (MAYBE) Dustin Johnson (Paulina factor) and Rickie Fowler?

Rory might be known. Even with four majors, Koepka isn’t one of them.

Regardless, Haney is an idiot.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Maybe (MAYBE) Dustin Johnson (Paulina factor) and Rickie Fowler?

Rory might be known. Even with four majors, Koepka isn’t one of them.

Regardless, Haney is an idiot.

I'm a pretty big sports guy. I know Gretzky's daughter is married to a golfer but I never would have gotten his name.

 

[Moderator1]

I'm a pretty big sports guy. I know Gretzky's daughter is married to a golfer but I never would have gotten his name.

Are they actually married? Are they still a thing?

 

[Azrael]

Whatshisname's Q score:

Everything you wanted to know about Brooks Koepka's Q Score, social media engagements, potential earnings off the course

8% name recognition among the general public.

 

[Cosmo]

When we go to all of these conferences and meetings and talk about growing the game, one of the key points is to be more welcoming to women. This ain't helping. Treating a professional tour like it's a joke is a bad, bad look, and he deserved what he got.

 

[WriteThinking]

Because he's a golf guy, this is made worse, as Alma pointed out. The fact that he didn't think through what he was saying and hold back before giving it a little more thought in order to realize how it actually would come off didn't help.

I can actually see his point. I'm not sure he was trying to be funny, and can believe that he was, in fact, attempting to make a point about the, in fact, overwhelming success of Koreans on the LPGA Tour. The problem is that he made it badly, and thoughtlessly.

The other problem is that, there is almost no way to speak to the phenomenon without sounding like a racist jerk in some way. It doesn't mean the phenomenon is not going on, though.

As to the way he characterized the status of the LPGA, I would compare it to the way people see the WNBA in comparison to the NBA, and in that, the parallel is, in fact, accurate.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Are they actually married? Are they still a thing?

I just googled them and no, they are not actually married.

So, for the record, Dustin Johnson was ranked number one in the world for 64 consecutive weeks and I knew exactly one thing about him... and it was wrong.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Stupid. Yes, there are a lot of South Koreans on the LPGA Tour. Se Ri Pak was a pioneer, almost a national hero on that front. Again ... what's the problem?

Hank Haney is an idiot. Seems to be perpetuating the "I don't care unless all the key players are Americans" issue. Issue with gender, too? Perhaps.

He should know better. The guess here is he doesn't have too many female pupils. If he does, they might want to opt for someone else.

Are they actually married? Are they still a thing?

I don't think they're married, but they've supposedly been together for a number of years. At least that's what the media reports.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Your average dickslap who doesn't follow golf, if you asked them to name five current golfers on the PGA Tour, is naming Tiger, Phil, Jack Nicklaus, John Daly and maybe Rory McIlroy but they're calling him Roy McAvoy.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Your average dickslap who doesn't follow golf, if you asked them to name five current golfers on the PGA Tour, is naming Tiger, Phil, Jack Nicklaus, John Daly and maybe Rory McIlroy but they're calling him Roy McAvoy.

Bonus points for "dickslap."