{"id":473158,"date":"2026-02-17T04:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473158\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T04:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:30:07","slug":"kenny-mayne-reveals-hes-banned-from-augusta-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473158\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Mayne reveals he’s banned from Augusta National"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESPN has helped broadcast the Masters from Augusta National Golf Club every year since 2008.<\/p>\n

The partnership is unique among sports media rights deals. The first and second rounds of the tournament air on ESPN, but CBS, which broadcasts the third and final rounds of the tournament, produces the coverage and uses its own broadcasters. Aside from a few ESPNers like Scott Van Pelt and Andy North, the vast majority of the on-air talent appearing on the telecast come from CBS.<\/p>\n

Augusta National exercises extreme editorial control<\/a> over how its tournament is covered, dictating how broadcasters speak about certain elements (\u201cpatrons\u201d not \u201cfans,\u201d and \u201csecond-nine\u201d instead of \u201cback-nine\u201d), in an effort to maintain the Masters\u2019 mystique. CBS has aired the major championship every year since 1956 and likely will continue to do so in perpetuity, so long as Augusta National deems the network worthy.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s no surprise that, even when someone not necessarily known for his golf coverage makes a joke at the expense of Augusta National, the green jackets deploy the banhammer. That\u2019s apparently what happened to former ESPN anchor Kenny Mayne. Appearing on a recent episode of\u00a0God Bless Football<\/a> with Jon \u201cStugotz\u201d Weiner, Mayne shared how he heard he was not welcome at Augusta National.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m banned for life from Augusta, I think,\u201d Mayne told Stugotz after he was asked if he\u2019d played the storied course before. \u201cI used to cover golf, I used to do the TPC Sawgrass, and I did the U.S. Open every year for, I don\u2019t know, seven or eight years. It was me, Van Pelt, Andy North, the whole gang.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt TPC one year, I just made some smartass comment about, \u2018We\u2019ll see you at the Masters, where we bring four saucy ladies out to play!\u2019 Or, you know, just something stupid, right? But mentioning that I\u2019m bringing women to play golf. And [Augusta National] called into the ESPN truck, like we\u2019re still on the air, and the people in Augusta are literally, they somehow have the inside number to the truck. And they were like, \u2018He is not coming!\u2019 So I was never invited to go by my lords.\u201d<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be honest, Augusta National has likely banned people for less. But the visual of someone high up at the fabled club watching Kenny Mayne make a snarky comment on ESPN, and then actually having the ability to call into the ESPN truck just to tell him that he\u2019s no longer welcome, is quite hilarious.<\/p>\n

Only the green jackets at Augusta National have that kind of access and know exactly when and where to wield it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN has helped broadcast the Masters from Augusta National Golf Club every year since 2008. The partnership is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[22413,427,219398,99,51195],"class_list":["post-473158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-augusta-national-golf-club","tag-golf","tag-kenny-mayne","tag-sports","tag-the-masters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}