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Bob Harig

Ten Years After a ‘Bonehead Move,’ Former PGA of America President Ted Bishop Isn't Bitter

Ted Bishop, pictured in 2014, was the president of the PGA of America after rising through the organization for more than a decade. | Noam Galai/Getty Images

Given the heated rhetoric of our times, and some of the outlandish stuff that appears on social media by the minute, it almost seems quaint today that Ted Bishop—the former President of the PGA of America—was ousted from his position because of a squabble with Ian Poulter.

Those were some crazy days a decade ago in PGA of America-land, after the United States was slapped back at the Ryder Cup in Scotland, where Phil Mickelson condemned captain Tom Watson in the aftermath and when Bishop was getting heat for having chosen him.

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