{"id":1383,"date":"2013-06-13T16:36:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T20:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/06\/13\/dottie-pepper-returns-to-the-course\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:51:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:51:16","slug":"dottie-pepper-returns-to-the-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/dottie-pepper-returns-to-the-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Dottie Pepper is back on the scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7054\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dottie-pepper-espn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7054\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7054 lazyload\" title=\"dottie-pepper-espn\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dottie-pepper-espn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"257\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 209px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 209\/257;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golf analyst Dottie Pepper on the ESPN set in Bristol, Ct. \/ Joe Faraoni\/ESPN Images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dottie Pepper, the former Furman and LPGA star, makes it clear. It was the writers who used the word \u201cretirement\u201d with regard to her broadcasting career. She never did. So after an eight-year run with NBC that ended in December and a brief hiatus, Pepper is back behind the microphone. She\u2019s making her debut with ESPN this week on the cable network\u2019s coverage of the U.S. Open, which begins Thursday at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa.\u00a0 <em>The Greenville News<\/em> checked in with Pepper, a 1987 Furman graduate and three-time All-American in college who won 17 titles and two majors on the LPGA tour.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/article\/20130613\/SPORTS\/306130022\/Dottie-Pepper-resumes-broadcasting-career-debuts-ESPN-U-S-Open?nclick_check=1\">Read the article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dottie Pepper, the former Furman and LPGA star, makes it clear. It was the writers who used the word \u201cretirement\u201d with regard to her broadcasting career. She never did. So after an eight-year run with NBC that ended in December and a brief hiatus, Pepper is back behind the microphone. She\u2019s making her debut with ESPN this week on the cable network\u2019s coverage of the U.S. Open, which begins Thursday at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa.\u00a0\u00a0<em>The Greenville News<\/em> checked in with Pepper, a 1987 Furman graduate and three-time All-American in college who won 17 titles and two majors on the LPGA tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}