Azinger to be announced as lead announcer for Fox

Azinger to be announced as lead announcer for Fox, Paul Azinger has been called as the advance golf analyst for Fox Sports as it enters the additional year of televising the U.S. Open and added USGA championships.

Two humans abreast of the accommodation say Azinger is replacing Greg Norman. They batten to The Associated Press on Tuesday on action of anonymity because Fox was still alive out the final data of his contract.

Fox active a 12-year accord with the USGA that started endure year, and the aboriginal big analysis was the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay. Among the criticism of the advertisement was Norman traveling collapsed during the absolute moment if Dustin Johnson three-putted from 12 anxiety on the endure aperture for Jordan Spieth to win his additional beeline major.

Azinger is a above PGA best - he exhausted Norman, of all people, in a playoff at Inverness in 1993 - who led the Americans to a attenuate Ryder Cup achievement at Valhalla in 2008. It was the alone Ryder Cup the U.S. has won back 1999.

In just 10 years, Azinger already has fabricated his mark as an analyst for his artlessness and edgeless observations.

The accord reunites Azinger with Fox golf ambassador Mark Loomis, who was at ABC Sports in 2005 if he put Azinger and Nick Faldo calm in the berth with Mike Tirico.

When ABC chose not to renew its arrangement with the PGA Tour, Azinger became the advance analyst for ESPN.

However, the golf advantage at ESPN has alone decidedly in contempo years. ESPN still had the aperture two circuit of the Masters, but it absent out on its weekday advertisement of the U.S. Open if Fox won the USGA arrangement with a $1 billion offer. And while ESPN had all four canicule of the British Open endure year, those rights now accord to NBC Sports.

Azinger will be alive with advance anchorperson Joe Buck at the U.S. Open at Oakmont, forth with added USGA contest such as the U.S. Women's Open, U.S. Senior Open and the U.S. Amateur. He fabricated his U.S. Open admission at Oakmont in 1983 if he absent the cut. Azinger did not play at Oakmont in 1994 as he recovered from cancer.

He won 11 times on the PGA Bout afore he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in his appropriate accept against the end of 1993, and he went through six months of chemotherapy. Azinger won for the final time on bout in 2000 at the Sony Open.

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