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Mark Lye does not use Twitter very much, but he believes a movement on the social media platform led to the firing from his PGA Tour Radio show Sunday by SiriusXM.
“It’s really cancel culture,” Lye said on Tuesday.
During a weekend episode of The Scorecard, Lye, 69, said: “You know, the LPGA Tour to me is a completely different tour than it was 10 years ago … You couldn’t pay me to watch. You really couldn’t. Because I just, I couldn’t relate at all. It’s kind of like, you know, if you’re a basketball player — and I’m not trashing anybody; please, don’t take it the wrong way — but I saw some highlights of ladies’ basketball. Man, is there a gun in the house? I’ll shoot myself than watch that.
“You know, I love watching the men’s basketball. I love watching the men’s golf. I never used to like watching ladies’ golf. But I will tell you this. I’ve been up close watching these ladies play because I used to have a big function every year called the Lucas Cup and I’d have LPGA players and PGA Tour players.”
Lye said Tuesday that when the five-minute segment went to break he wanted to apologize and talked to people involved with the show.
“‘Guys, I’m not feeling good about this,’ he said to those involved with the show after it went to break, ‘I need to make an apology to all WNBA fans,’ which I did.
Mark Lye responds on Twitter
Lye also posted this explanation to Twitter: “The fact that I can’t relate to WNBA does not make me sexist in any way. All you haters should listen to the whole segment, where I completely glorified womens golf, which I love to cover. Thanks for listening.”
“I thought it was case closed,” Lyle said.
But Twitter user @jalawsons had picked up the clip with the controversial comment and shared it, and it started gaining traction.
The online comments on the social media platform created a firestorm, with many saying Lye was against women’s sports or was a sexist, and needed to be…
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