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Mark Carnevale Dies: Golf Announcer & Former PGA Tour Rookie Of The Year Was 64

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Mark Carnevale Dies: Golf Announcer & Former PGA Tour Rookie Of The Year Was 64

Mark Carnevale, a former PGA Tour Rookie of the Year who was a lead golf announcer for SiriusXM Satellite Radio for the past two decades, died Monday. He was 64.

The PGA Tour announced his death but give not provide details. “His humor, knowledge, and enthusiasm for the game and life will be greatly missed,” the tour wrote on X.

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Born on May 21, 1960, in Annapolis, MD, Carnevale turned pro in 1983. He scored a win at the 1992 Chattanooga Classic and went on to be named PGA Tour Rookie of the Year that season. It would be his lone victory on the marquee tour, but we won a handful of tournaments on lower-tier tours. He played in a few Senior Tour events after turning 50 in 2010, and later was named tournament director of the Nationwide Tour’s Virginia Beach Open.

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Since 2005, Carnevale had been among the lead announcers for SiriusXM’s PGA Tour Radio. He called the Scottish Open for the channel last weekend and was slated to work this week’s 3M Open in at the TPC Twin Cities course in suburban Minneapolis.

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No information on survivors or a memorial service was immediately available.

PGA Tour Radio posted an audio remembrance of Carnevale today, with one colleague, saying, “Nobody was better at just filling in those little holes and filling them in without having to say too much, with an economy of words, like Carnie.” Another added, “I would contend that nobody has followed Tiger Woods on more holes in the last 20 years than Mark Carnevale. He was there doing the job pretty much every step of the way.” Listen to it here:

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