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Cristie Kerr will put the headset back on this week for the Golf Channel, this time as an on-course reporter at the PGA Tour’s Honda Classic.
It will be the third time Kerr has worked for Golf Channel, but the first at a men’s event.
Last November, the former World No. 1 and major winner was part of live coverage for the Golf Channel’s broadcast of the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship in Naples, Florida, working alongside Judy Rankin in the booth and shadowing Jerry Foltz on the course. In January of 2019, she was a studio guest analyst for “Golf Central.”
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“I’m very excited to join the Golf Channel team for the week of The Honda Classic,” said Kerr in a release. “I look forward to learning from them and putting my golf expertise to use for viewers. This should be an amazing experience.”
Kerr, 42, is a 20-time winner on the LPGA and mother of two who grew up in South Florida and won the 1996 Girls Junior PGA Championship at PGA National Golf Club. She made it clear last November in an interview with Golfweek that she wasn’t slowing down.
Kerr, now in her 23rd season on the LPGA, has played in three events so far this season, finishing in a share of sixth place at the ISPA Handa Women’s Australian Open and T-11 at the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio.
She’ll next tee it up next at the Volvik Founders Cup in Phoenix March 21-24.
NBC Sports Group’s tournament coverage of The Honda Classic will be led by play-by-play host Dan Hicks and lead analyst Paul Azinger. Gary Koch and David Feherty will be hole announcers, with Roger Maltbie and Jim “Bones” Mackay joining Kerr as on-course reporters.
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