For the third year in a row FOX and FOX Sports is getting television coverage of PGA’s U.S. Open Championship. And for the third year in a row Holly Sonders is going to be part of the broadcast team. In addition to her amazing looks Sonders is a golf junkie having been around the sport her entire life. After an accomplished junior career, Holly played at Michigan State, where she tallied one Top-10 and four Top-20 finishes before her career was ultimately cut short by a knee injury.
“That was a sad time, to be 20, 21 years old and know your dream of playing professionally is over,” she says. “After the surgery, I couldn’t walk for many, many months my junior year at MSU. I came back from that but could never play the same again.”
However, given her extensive knowledge of the sport as well as a degree in journalism, Sonders has quickly moved up in the ranks since being hired by the Golf Channel in 2011. And it’s not only golf that Holly is focusing on. Sonders has expanded into football as well. In 2014 she was hired by FOX sports even though her first U.S. Open was met with controversy (mainly because of her looks). In 2016 she worked several NFL games as a sideline reporter and she’s making quite a name for herself.
Erin Andrews better be looking in her rear view mirror.
HI Nat,
I am thinking that perhaps you don’t have children. I do, and Holly, simply put, has gotten to where she is because of her looks, and perhaps her nude posts. Not someone I want my daughter idolizing, nor my sons ogling. There are many other fine female golf professionals with experience who have not had the extensive plastic surgery she has. Is this the type of person we want to represent the great game of golf? Are golfers and golf enthusiasts that sexist? Should we be looking for more centerfolds to represent this dignified sport? Don’t we do enough of that elsewhere? Is nothing sacred? Girls wonder why rape rates are so high, yet they don’t connect it with how they dress or conduct themselves. She’s an example of how I don’t want my daughter or nieces to turn out like. Breast & buttock implants, waist whittling lipo….these are not things all girls want. But we are creating a society of fast food body parts to be attractive. Oh, and anyone who thinks Erin Andrews “accidental” nude video was accidental is inept. Can we please look for some positive role models for girls who aren’t a busty size 2? Let’s get some real female sports reporters who represent the rest of America…curvy and ethnic. And who don’t rely on their looks or nude pic’s & videos to get attention. Please, I am begging you, for my little girl.
Wow Nat, this is so sexist. You have two sons? Unbelievable article here promoting and encouraging silicone bimbos! And you are posting pics & videos to promote her? You must be in love with her. Yuck! Those of us that found this were probably googling Holly out of total disgust. I contacted the President of Fox Sports (who’s known for exploiting these kind of women), and the President of the USGA when I saw the dress she wore last Thursday. Talk about degrading our sport, please leave that to other sports, industries. We need to cut out these cancers before they take over. We are dignified. Maybe you are not a golfer? I’m sure you are a great writer. But please, for the sake of the women in the world, do not promote or condone this kind of behavior, nor try to sell us on her “qualifications.” Be a gentleman and do not promote sexism in the future. Your wife, future daughert in law and granddaughters thank you.