Dottie Pepper Wants To Spend More Time Away From Brian Hammond

Jim McCabe notes Pepper's decision to step down from her Golf Channel duties and while she'll be missed during their major championship coverage, a commenter on the Golfweek notes that on the eve of the new LPGA television contract with Golf Channel, "the LPGA really needs her and good announcing now more than ever."

Comments

[Chuck]

Golf Channel's loss.

[smails]

35 topurneys per year. wow.

As an aside, that could be double the entire LPGA calendar.

[court]

The only bad part about Pepper leaving is that she couldn't get Tilghman to go with her.

[Nathan]

I've never understood why everyone likes Dottie Pepper yet doesn't like Kelly Tilghman. I'm in the opposite camp... I kind of like Kelly and won't miss Dottie. By the way, I don't get the headline and Brian Hammond.

[Average Golfer]

I like Dottie. I find her comments insightful as a former player and poignant. I think she is also learning to let the game be the story and not feel the need to overpower it with commentary, something a number of her colleagues need to learn.

[Smolmania]

Her "chokin' freakin' dogs" comment remains a classic -- you'll be missed Dottie.

[Farmingdale]

I don't have cable so I don't care that she left Golf Channel, but it is their loss. Really wasn't in her camp for the longest time but when she spoke out against Commish Blivet it really opened my eyes and made me step back and think "wow, she really gets it".

Glad to hear DP is back in the home state, go girl.

[Sir Real]

Dottie was as good as it gets for frank golf perspective from a female golf commentator. Kelly is a weak as it gets...nothing insightful, dull and outside of a pretty face...generates little upside for a telecast. Pepper will find another role that she can contribute from...golf needs gals like her to engage women and convince the chauvinists that some ladies know the game well and add to its fabric.

[Jay Townsend]

Dottie is a great commentator who has fantastic insight into the game and the players.

[Johnny Knoxville]

Dottie always seemed to add to what was seen on the TV, whether it was about the shot or the situation.

Kelly always seemed to be trying to say something memorable or adding a trite comment about the shot.

[court]

I must have been watching a different Dottie Pepper than you guys.

[CBell]

Dottie is thoughtful, articulate, and at her best she is conversational in a good way, as if she's talking with you rather than talking at you. She knows the game and the players well, and she doesn't relive her past as most former players do.

[Joe coppola]

Dottie Pepper is by far the most interesting golf pro on tv bar none . And the most informative and not bad looking too. I would rather have a conversation with her then anybody else on tv. Thanks dottie you do a great job. Joe