NEW YORK, June 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM today
announced the launch of a new weekly show featuring golf talk,
analysis and instruction from several pros based out of the
renowned Sea Island Golf Club on St. Simons Island in
Georgia.
Sea Island Golf Radio airs every Wednesday from
7:00 to 8:00 pm ET on SiriusXM PGA
TOUR Radio (XM channel 93, Sirius channel 208). The next show
debuts tonight, June 18.
The program will be hosted each week by former PGA TOUR pro
Brian Bateman, winner of the
2007 Buick Open, who will be joined by a rotating group of co-hosts
who call Sea Island home.
Featured hosts will include Davis
Love III, the 20-time PGA TOUR winner who won the 1997
PGA Championship, THE PLAYERS Championship in 1992 and 2003, and
captained the U.S. Ryder Cup team in 2012. Love has lived on St.
Simons Island since he was a teenager and hosts The McGladrey
Classic, the PGA TOUR event played every fall at Sea Island Golf
Club.
In addition to Love, listeners will hear regularly from 2009
U.S. Open Champion and three-time PGA TOUR winner Lucas Glover and Sea Island Director of
Instruction Todd Anderson,
who was named the 2010 National PGA Teacher of the Year.
Each week the hosts will discuss the latest news from the world
of golf and interview fellow players and instructors from around
the game. SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio listeners will also have the
opportunity to call in to the show to seek instructional
tips.
"Sea Island is home to an extraordinary group of players,
coaches and trainers and we're pleased to have gathered several of
those pros together to contribute to SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio," said
Scott Greenstein, SiriusXM's
President and Chief Content Officer. "Listeners who tune in to
Sea Island Golf Radio will have access to a tremendous
amount of talent and will find this show to be an outstanding
source for both entertaining golf talk and expert instruction."
"It's great that SiriusXM is giving us the opportunity to share
the inside story on our very special island and the people that
live and visit here," Love said. "We're excited to get on the air
and talk with listeners around the country."
SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio offers live golf play-by-play of PGA
TOUR events and major championships. This year the channel unveiled
an expanded programming lineup that offers the best daily golf
talk, news, analysis and instruction on radio. Hosts on the
channel include World Golf Hall of Fame member Ben Crenshaw, World No. 2 ranked player
Henrik Stenson, Ian Poulter, Annika
Sorenstam, Chris DiMarco,
Rich Beem, Hank Haney, David
Leadbetter, Jim McLean,
Mark Carnevale, John Maginnes, Carl
Paulson, Dennis Paulson,
Matt Adams, Brian Katrek, Sandy
McIlree, Larry Rinker,
Lorne Rubenstein, Ben Shear, John
Swantek, Jeff Warne,
Greg Warmoth and Taylor Zarzour.
Visit www.SiriusXM.com/SiriusXMPGATOURRadio for a daily
schedule.
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