At the PGA Championship three weeks ago in Wisconsin, Ryder Cup Captain Corey Pavin and reporter Jim Gray had an ugly confrontation in the media room over comments Gray claimed Pavin had previously made to him about Tiger Woods.
(Lisa Pavin already straightening the iron play of plenty of U.S. golfers)
It was during that nose-to-nose that we were introduced to Pavin’s wife Lisa.
From GOLF DIGEST account of the incident:
Gray confronted Pavin immediately following the press conference and not only angrily wagged a finger in the captain’s face, but also put his hand in the face of Pavin’s wife, Lisa. Pavin grabbed Gray’s wrist and moved it away. Said Pavin: “He got upset, and his eyes were a little odd, and he put his hand in front of my wife, Lisa, and I just took his hand and moved it away and said, ‘That’s my wife. You keep your hand away from her.’ He got a little crazy.”
It was later reported that Lisa Pavin recorded the conversation between the two - a recording that included videotape and may now explain why Gray was holding up a hand in her direction.
Today the magazine Avid Golfer unveiled the above cover photo of Lisa along with a lengthy profile piece on her. If she looks quite a bit younger than Corey, it’s because she is. 14 years his junior. The couple married in 2002 when he was 42 and she was 28.
From the Avid profile on how the couple met:
Back in 2000, Corey and his then-wife, Shannon, were looking for someone to help them out with their daily lives. Noss introduced the Pavins to Lisa, who had aspirations of starting her own Personal Assistant boutique firm. Lisa struck out on the job front after that meeting, but she did make quite an impression on Corey.
That year turned out to be a difficult one for Corey. His game was in shambles. He divorced from his wife and separated from his two sons, Ryan and Austin. And his relationship with his extended family deteriorated.
Soon after his divorce, Pavin hired Lisa as his personal assistant. Three months later, they became romantically involved.
“I was Corey’s personal assistant when we went on our first date, so having that date was sort of a blending in-type thing,” she said. “The two things I remember about it – he talked non-stop about the Ryder Cup and I remember asking him if he was going to finish his food because if not I was going to eat it. We shared more personable things about our lives on that date than we had previously while working together.”
The couple got engaged in January 2002, and tied the knot exactly one year later.
Lisa Pavin’s outgoing personality and constant shadowing of her husband has been off-putting to some of the golf media, who is generally used to most player wives remaining in the background. But as we found out during the Jim Gray episode, Corey isn’t shy about including Lisa on the same professional stage.
I can’t think of too many PGA Tour players who would want their wife seen in such a provocative pose for a magazine, let alone a month before the player was due to captain the Ryder Cup.
But seeing as the photo is relatively tame, maybe it loosen up the same staid PGA that’s forever lamenting its game’s seeming inability to appeal more to fans.
5:57 pm on September 7th, 2010
What is it about golfers and their help? They can’t stop marrying them apparently.
6:02 pm on September 7th, 2010
Pavin doesn’t have as much money as Limbaugh, but he landed a sexier wife.
Odds are, she has a brain. Limbaugh’s third ex-Missus-to-be is dumb as a stump.
6:14 pm on September 7th, 2010
The mag cover photo doesn’t reveal enough of her true self whereas that pink sweater photo is much better.
7:35 pm on September 7th, 2010
Well I guess thats a little more heart warming than Dailey meeting his wives slumped over the toilets in Hooters.
8:18 pm on September 7th, 2010
She looks incredibly hot in the cover shot and so, so, in the other photo.
10:26 am on September 8th, 2010
Asian handies triumph again!
11:12 am on September 8th, 2010
Well, Ok, I guess. Maybe this will give the lame-ass golf press something to snicker at and write about instead of trying to push over-hyped yet boring Ryder Cup stories in our faces. The Ryder Cup is fun but not important; sorry but it’s true. Lets take if for what it is and stop pretending it’s another Super Bowl.
1:52 pm on September 8th, 2010
remember when pave used to rock the pornstache?
8:37 pm on September 8th, 2010
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31751_162-20013387-10391697.html
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/early-lead/2010/08/jim_gray_to_corey_pavin_youre.html
now, i don’t know why pavin didn’t at least power shove the grayster for putting a finger in his face or chest (as well as his wife’s), & tweeting about it instead makes him seem like equally a wuss…
but for the love of God, when on earth can we look forward to a jim gray-less world?!?!?! this guy not only is a horrendous reporter with no content in his questions (like everyone else, but still… seriously, how difficult is a job where you have b/t 1/2 an hour to 2 hours to think up 2 friggin’ insightful questions), but he’s the most annoying/wanna-punch-you-in-the-face if i’m the interviewee or the viewer, spotlight-grabbing, narcissist of a sideline “reporter” that i’ve ever seen. given his competition, that’s saying a lot.
gotta agree with comments above… who in the hell keeps hiring this guy & thinks we want to see or hear from him again?
he’s the only real proof that if the unemployment lines have gotten you down, there’s always hope!
amazing.
1:17 pm on September 14th, 2010
Dustin Johnson’s Girlfriend Amanda Caulder is as smoking hot as Dustin’s driver. By far the hottest thing I have seen on a golf course
9:44 am on September 21st, 2010
I love these guys - how are they to pass judgement on Tiger - when they all have affairs and mistresses in their closets - The real question is - how much of Corey’s money did the former Mrs. Pavin get for Corey to have his Yoko …??? She is pretty smoking - and i would think she services him pretty well with her special skills-
4:56 pm on September 21st, 2010
She is nothing to write home about. Trust me it takes a lot of makeup to make her look good. I knew her in college.
10:04 am on September 26th, 2010
Bill, you apparently did not get past adolescent looks bias, or you would have met the girl/woman whom I met at a young age who always was a great confident person not afraid to be herself and encouraged by her
parents to be the best she possible and respect others as well. She is a celebrity on her own and is an enhancment to and with Corey. She is our Iowa raised
woman and we are proud of her, and the attention she is bringing to the support behind the golfers necessary for them to concentrate on their game and entertain us all.
9:40 am on September 28th, 2010
Here we are again, everyone on here is married to a supermodel wife and has playboy bunnies as mistresses… (Yawns and kicks yet another bunny out my bed)
7:34 pm on October 1st, 2010
We share the same golf swing and a love a Asian tang
11:26 pm on October 5th, 2010
bill is right, she’s a gold digger and pavin is one ugly dude.
11:27 pm on October 5th, 2010
pj can you say bull sh@t?
3:03 am on October 6th, 2010
who was the captain and who was the caddy?
7:40 am on October 6th, 2010
this is what happens when a man is weak and will not set down boundaries. Well like the magazine cover says she sure made an impact. Funny stuff.
9:04 pm on October 6th, 2010
People love to take shots at Jim Gray, mainly - in my opinion - because he looks geeky. But he’s never afraid to ask the tough question and backs down from no one. His LeBron infomercial was a tad “overproduced”, but aside from that. if you can get past his “last kid picked for the team” look, he’s a pretty ferocious interviewer.
10:29 pm on October 6th, 2010
I heard that her next creation is going to be a 100% waterproof girls T-Shirt for spring break.
2:21 pm on October 12th, 2010
The biggest joke here is Cory Pavin. What a lame excuse for the team captain.
I sure hope we get it right next time!