Anchor and reporter Win McMurry joined the Golf Channel in January 2010. She anchors Golf Central Updates during television coverage of tournaments, hosts PGA TOUR Primetime presented by Michelob Ultra and Top Shelf Wednesdays presented by Grey Goose. In addition, she contributes as a reporter on Golf Central as well as on the weekly Golf Channel program the Grey Goose 19th Hole.
McMurry comes to Golf Channel from PGA TOUR Entertainment where she hosted and produced the Telley Award winning series PGA TOUR Today, Monday Backspin, and Morning Movers on PGATOUR.COM and served as a reporter/interviewer during Live_ remotes for the PGA TOUR from 2008-2010.
Golf has been part of her life since she was young. McMurry grew up in the coastal town of Wilmington, NC where she was on her high school
golf team.
She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication where she was awarded the Floyd S. Alford, Jr. Scholarship for demonstrating outstanding journalistic talent and a commitment to improving the community through honest and accurate reporting. McMurry has a second major in Communication Studies. She also holds a post-graduate certificate in Business from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC.
Prior to joining Golf Channel and the PGA TOUR, McMurry worked for CBS Sports and WCBS-TV in New York City. Her former assignments with CBS took her to destinations across North America as a production assistant for the network's extensive coverage of the PGA TOUR.
When not on the road with CBS, McMurry worked for two years in Manhattan as a field producer covering daily news and sporting events both in the field and in the newsroom for WCBS-TV. In addition to hailing a taxi cab weekdays well before dawn to report for the 5 a.m. morning show, McMurry also worked weekends as a researcher for NFL Today and CBS Sports' live coverage of NCAA Football and Basketball.
While in college, McMurry worked for MTV Networks in New York City. She also has experience working for public relations firms in Manhattan including DeVries Public Relations, Formula PR and 225 PR, where she promoted a range of clients from sports and entertainment brands to lifestyle and fashion icons.
Free time for McMurry is filled following the college teams of the Atlantic Coast Conference, playing tennis and golf, dancing and enjoying live music. Travel is also an interest and she has visited destinations across the globe including New Zealand, French Polynesia, The People's Republic of China, Argentina, Chile, Uraguay, Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland, France, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Italy and Spain. Win presently resides in the Orlando, FL area.
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Media appearances include:
-E! Entertainment Television's E! True Hollywood Story: Tiger Woods
-Fox Sports Radio's Double Bogey Blues, Baltimore, MD
-The PGA TOUR Network on Sirius XM Radio
-Wilma Magazine
-KFNS radio, St. Louis, MO
-WTIC Newstalk 1080, Hartford, CT
-Sports Talk with Bo Mattingly, Arkansas
-The Speaking of Golf radio show in Ashville, NC
-Various golf blogs including those linked below:
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