Rex Hoggard

Rex Hoggard is a veteran sports writer and a senior writer for GOLF Channel, covering golf's professional tours. He handles breaking news, features, and opinion stories for the network and contributes to the network's news coverage on-air as a reporter and host on Golf Central and Golf Central Live From at on-site golf's biggest events. Before joining GOLF Channel, Hoggard accumulated more than 15 years of journalism experience, including nine years at Golfweek magazine. He began his career at the Orlando Sentinel, then worked as a staff reporter for the Highline News in Washington before joining Golfweek in 1999.

Biography:  https://www.nbcsports.com/pressbox/bios/rex-hoggard

53%

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The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

82%

Examples:

  • Hoggard suggests that players were unhappy about the lack of transparency and decision-making process in the PIF deal.
  • Rex Hoggard defers credit to Schauffele, suggesting his role in the transformation to major champion was little more than tour guide.

Conflicts of Interest

0%

Examples:

No current examples available.

Contradictions

75%

Examples:

  • The forecast for Day 1 also calls for up to ⅙ inches of rain.
  • The news of the truce between PGA Tour and PIF was met with shock, curiosity, and confusion due to bungled messaging.

Deceptions

65%

Examples:

  • Clearly, the first reaction from all of us was just shock, curiosity, surprise
  • Como defers credit to Schauffele, suggesting his role in the transformation to major champion was little more than tour guide.
  • The chaos only escalated later that afternoon in Canada.

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