NBC Sports announced it will utilize an all-women broadcast team to call the ShopRite LPGA Classic on Golf Channel, Oct. 1-3, at Seaview’s Bay Course in Galloway, New Jersey.
Cara Banks will take the play-by-play duties with Judy Rankin and Paige Mackenzie as analysts while Karen Stupples and Kay Cockerill will serve as on-course reporters. Longtime producer Beth Hutter, who has produced LPGA coverage for more than 15 years, will call the shots behind the scenes.
The announcement follows a trend of women breaking glass ceilings with NBC over the last several years.
A March 2020 game between the St. Louis Blues and the Chicago Blackhawks marked the first all-woman broadcast crew for NHL hockey, while earlier this year Rene Hatlelid became the first woman to produce the Indianapolis 500. Lindsay Schanzer also became the first woman to produce a Triple Crown horse race during both the Preakness and Belmont Stakes.
