News: Retired professional golfer, Helen Alfredsson sacked over inappropriate remark

                     

A retired professional golfer commentating on the Omega Dubai Ladies Masters has been sacked for making an “inappropriate and distasteful” remark about a fatal Glasgow helicopter disaster while live on air.
When a noisy helicopter flew over the Emirates Golf Club, Helen Alfredsson, a Swede who won 11 tournaments on the Ladies European Tour before retiring in September, said she “hoped they are better pilots than they are in Scotland”.
The comment is understood to have been in reference to the Glasgow helicopter crash, which killed nine people on December 1.
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Alfredsson was covering the second round of the Dubai tournament on Friday, which was broadcast on OSN Sports as well as other stations globally.

Viewers immediately criticized her on social media and contacted stations broadcasting the live feed, which also included Sky Sports.
Alfredsson quickly apologized in a statement issued by the Ladies European Tour (LET).
“Regretfully, I made an inappropriate and distasteful comment on air today and apologize unreservedly for any offence that was caused by this mistake,” she said.
“I did not intend to hurt anybody and I am devastated if I have hurt anyone. I feel very embarrassed because this was not intended in any shape or form.”

LET chief executive Ivan Khodabakhsh said: “Helen Alfredsson’s comment on air was clearly careless, but people who know Helen will realise that she would never have intended to hurt someone and I do not believe this was the case.”
Alfredsson was replaced by Carin Koch, who had played the first two rounds in Dubai but missed the cut.