Geoff Ogilvy still has limited status on the PGA Tour as a past champion and said that he is “not ready to hang up the spikes"Getty Images
PGA Tour player Geoff Ogilvy is joining the ESPN coverage team and will appear as an analyst on "SportsCenter" all week from the Masters as speculation looms that he is the “top candidate to replace Paul Azinger” as the lead analyst for NBC Sports, but Ogilvy has “politely declined so far,” according to Adam Schupak of GOLFWEEK. Ogilvy said NBC “was scratching around but that doesn’t feel right at the moment,” as he is “not ready to commit to 20 weeks” of broadcasting. Ogilvy still has limited status on the PGA Tour as a past champion and said that he is “not ready to hang up the spikes.” When asked why he “didn’t take a spin in the lead analyst chair during NBC’s portion of the broadcast schedule” leading up to the Masters, Ogilvy said that he “hasn’t closed a door to the idea but the timing just isn’t right.” Ogilvy: “It’s not like I turned down the job. The job might be there but it wasn’t like it was there, you know? I’m just not ready to commit to half the year” (GOLFWEEK, 4/9).
