PGA Tour 1992 Rookie of the Year & SiriusXM Announcer was 64

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

The PGA Tour announced his death but gave no details. “His humor, knowledge and enthusiasm for the game and for life will be greatly missed,” the tour wrote on X.

Carnevale was born on May 21, 1960, in Annapolis, Md., and turned pro in 1983. He earned a victory at the 1992 Chattanooga Classic and was named PGA Tour Rookie of the Year that season. It would be his only victory on the marquee tour, but he did win a handful of tournaments on the lower-level tours. He played in a few Senior Tour events after turning 50 in 2010 and was later named tournament director of the Nationwide Tour’s Virginia Beach Open.

Since 2005, Carnevale has been a lead announcer for SiriusXM’s PGA Tour Radio. He announced the Scottish Open for the channel last weekend and was scheduled to call the 3M Open this week at the TPC Twin Cities course in suburban Minneapolis.

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No information was available about survivors or a memorial service.

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