{"id":1486538,"date":"2022-05-21T07:31:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T11:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1486538"},"modified":"2022-05-21T07:32:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T11:32:39","slug":"espns-sage-steele-covered-in-blood-after-being-struck-by-errant-jon-rahm-tee-shot-at-pga-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/espns-sage-steele-covered-in-blood-after-being-struck-by-errant-jon-rahm-tee-shot-at-pga-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN\u2019s Sage Steele \u201cCovered in Blood\u201d After Being Struck by Errant Jon Rahm Tee Shot at PGA Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fespns-sage-steele-covered-in-blood-after-being-struck-by-errant-jon-rahm-tee-shot-at-pga-championship%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1486538&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>ESPN anchor Sage Steele is recovering after being struck in the face by an errant tee shot by Jon Rahm on the third hole of the PGA Championship on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Golf writer Geoff Shackelford <a href=\"https:\/\/quadrilateral.substack.com\/p\/thursday-at-the-pga-rory-turns-the?utm_source=twitter&#038;sd=fs&#038;s=r\">described an account from an eyewitness<\/a> who \u201csaw her on the ground, holding her nose, mouth or chin area,\u201d with her hands \u201ccovered in blood.\u201d A source told The Post she walked off under her own power.<\/p>\n<p>Shackelford saw the Rahm shot \u2014 which traveled 281 yards at 181 mph, per the ESPN broadcast \u2014 go awry. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was standing behind the tee when\u00a0Rahm\u00a0hit a hard hook into the left trees. He immediately yelled \u2018Fore Left!\u2019 and aggressively waved his arm pointing left,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe impact must have been brutal: Rahm\u2019s tee shot ended up in the center of the fairway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steele was covering the major at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Okla., for ESPN\u2019s \u201cSportsCenter.\u201d She had concluded her work on the program for the day and was watching the tournament from the gallery of credentialed media. She was hospitalized after being struck with the ball.<\/p>\n<p>There was no indication Rahm or his caddie realized what happened in real-time. The shot went so far off the fairway, it was not picked up by TV camera. The ESPN broadcast did not make any mention of Rahm\u2019s drive hitting Steele. At least one social media account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/clifflawyer\/status\/1527442671874236424\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indicated<\/a> that it was mentioned on SiriusXM\u2019s coverage of the tournament. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/jon-rahm-sage-steele-injury.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Jon Rahm indicated his tee shot went left on the third hole of the PGA Championship on Thursday.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ESPN<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1370382474.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"718\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1370382474.jpg\" alt=\"Sage Steele was struck by an errant tee shot by Jon Rahm during the PGA Championship on Thursday.\" class=\"wp-image-22349302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1370382474.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1370382474.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Sage Steele was struck by an errant tee shot by Jon Rahm during the PGA Championship on Thursday.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for Bullseye Event<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sources told The Post that Steele has traveled home to Connecticut and will not be back on ESPN\u2019s coverage of the tournament this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>An ESPN spokesperson declined to comment for this story.<\/p>\n<p>Steele, 49, has been with ESPN since 2007. She has hosted the Scripps National Spelling Bee, NBA Finals and \u201cSportsCenter\u201d coverage from the sites of the Super Bowl, World Series, College Football National Championship and The Masters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/27\/sage-steele-suing-espn-over-suspension-for-vaccine-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Last month, Steele sued ESPN<\/a>, alleging that she was retaliated against over comments she made about the company\u2019s vaccine mandate on Jay Cutler\u2019s podcast last September, violating both her contract and her right to free speech. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1398186054.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1398186054.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Rahm hitting a tee shot at the PGA Championship on Thursday.\" class=\"wp-image-22349296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1398186054.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1398186054.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Jon Rahm hitting a tee shot at the PGA Championship on Thursday.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ESPN disputed her distinction that she had been suspended for her remarks and said that she remained a valuable on-air contributor to the network. The lawsuit suit said the company used the words \u201csidelined\u201d and \u201ctaking a break\u201d to describe her on-air absence and refers to these words as \u201ceuphemisms\u201d for a suspension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN anchor Sage Steele is recovering after being struck in the face by an errant tee shot by Jon Rahm on the third hole of the PGA Championship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":1486616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1486616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}