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TV presenter suspended for offensive Woods remarks



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AMERICAN cable television network The Golf Channel has suspended one of its presenters for two weeks for making a racially sensitive comment at the expense of world No 1 Tiger Woods.
Kelly Tilghman, a former playing professional, joked in a telecast with Nick Faldo that players bidding to challenge Woods might have to "lynch him in a back alley".

The Golf Channel said it regretted Tilghman's remarks and had decided to suspend her for two weeks. "There is simply no place on our network for offensive language like this," it said in a statement.

"While we believe that Kelly's choice of words were inadvertent and that she did not intend them in an offensive manner, the words were hurtful and grossly inappropriate."

Tilghman has apologised to Woods for the remark, which was made after Friday's second round at the US PGA Tour's season-opening Mercedes-Benz Championship in Hawaii.



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  • Last Updated: 10 January 2008 9:50 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Tiger Woods
 
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Murray G,

UAE 11/01/2008 05:15:21
You have to be joking surely!!! What has the world come to when a remark like that is construed to be racially offensive?! I bet Woods and a billion other black people took absolutely no offence to that remark and took it in the context she meant it. What next? We can't refer to anything about being hungry in the context of the polynesian Vijay Singh?! Gggrrr
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Scotty Cameron,

Edinburgh 11/01/2008 09:00:48
Have you reported this correctly? Surely not? There's absolutely nothing offensive, never mind racially, about what you've reported she said. If it had been any other golfer apart from Tiger - would the same have happenned? Sounds like this could possibly be a publicity stunt for the struggling Golf Channel!

These American's are absolutely crazy. (Now that could be construed as racist!) Remember the Paul Casey fiasco?

 

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