Judy Rankin brings class and dignity.
Judy Rankin brings class and dignity.
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The Divine Ms. Judy Rankin
Judy Rankin is my favorite golf broadcaster. As Beth Ann Nichols for Golfweek.com says, “Rankin brings class and dignity to the Golf Channel booth.”
Not many people have outstanding success in more than one career, but Judy Rankin is exceptional. She won 26 titles on the LPGA Tour and is a World Golf Hall of Fame member.
Her peers and viewers admired Rankin for the classy way she describes a player's swing or shot without ever sounding caustic or harsh. She is also revered for her quiet toughness, playing with severe back pain, and later beating breast cancer.
1961 British Ladies Amateur.
Judy Rankin remembers the phone call as if it were yesterday. One week removed from a devastating early loss at the 1961 British Ladies Amateur, a 16-year-old Rankin told her father that she wanted to quit golf. He said he understood, and offered to take her fishing.
Then the kitchen phone rang. Her father, Paul, grabbed the phone on the wall. An editor from Sports Illustrated was on the other end, wanting to know if Rankin would play in the upcoming U.S. Women’s Open at Baltusrol. They wanted to do a cover story.
It’s difficult to imagine an LPGA without Rankin. Her presence in the Golf Channel booth brings such a wonderful sense of class, dignity and credibility. On the eve of her 70th birthday, with a pancake dinner at church on the night’s agenda, the Hall of Famer talked about the idea of perhaps slowing down.
Rankin, who turned 70 on Feb. 18, will work 14 LPGA events for Golf Channel this season and serve as an on-course reporter at the Open Championship in St. Andrews. She has missed only three Open Championships since 1989.
With so much young talent on the fairways, it’s nice to have someone with 60-plus years in the game passing on such rich perspective.
“If you’re coming down the stretch on Sunday and she’s in the booth,” said fellow Golf Channel broadcaster Tom Abbott, “she always says the right things at the right time.”
To read further on Judy's illustrious career on the course and in broadcasting, go here.
Source: Golfweek.com Beth Ann Nichols Mel Sole Golf School
Pictures: Associated Press Golf Channel
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