PGA of America president Ted Bishop had just a month left before the end of his two-year term but the organization’s board of governors ousted Bishop instead. After professional golfer Ian Poulter critized the Ryder Cup captaincy of Nick Faldo and Tom Watson, Bishop took to Twitter and Facebook to defend his six-time major champion friend Faldo. Bishop wrote Poulter “sounds like a little school girl squealing during recess.”
Bishop deleted his posts. He was offered the option of resigning but declined. Bishop issued a statement to apologize to Ian Poulter and “anyone else that I might have offended with my remarks on social media that appeared on October 23, 2014. Particularly, I have great remorse that my comments contained the words ‘little girl’ because I have always been a great advocate for girls and women in golf.”
