Rachel Drummond Facts: 15 Things You Didn't Know About The LIV Golf Broadcaster

Get to know former Ladies European Tour pro and LIV Golf reporter Rachel Drummond

Rachel Drummond watches on after hitting an iron shot
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Former professional golfer Rachel Drummond is forging a successful career in-front of camera, with the Englishwoman working in the LIV Golf League as a reporter and interviewer after a decade as a touring pro.

Get to know Drummond better with these 15 facts...

Rachel Drummond facts:

1. She grew up in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England.

2. She was attached to the Buckinghamshire Golf Club, where she worked in the pro shop before forging her tour career.

3. She started playing golf aged 10.

4. Her home club as a junior was Beaconsfield Golf Club.

5. She holds the course record at Beaconsfield Golf Club with an eight-under-par score.

6. She represented England as an amateur.

7. Drummond turned professional in 2012 off a handicap of +3.

8. She played on the Ladies European Tour between 2011-2021.

9. After retiring from playing, she turned to coaching and broadcasting.

10. She coached at indoor venue Pitch Golf in London as well as Sunningdale Heath Golf Club and St George's Hill Golf Club, which ranks inside the top 30 of Golf Monthly's UK and Ireland Top 100 courses list.

11. As a presenter, she has worked for the Legends Tour, Aramco Team Series and Sky Sports Golf.

12. She is an ambassador for Your Golf Travel.

13. She launched her golf coaching platform Only Golf Coaching, which has the objective of breaking down the barriers to entry to the sport.

14. In 2020, she revealed she had been sexually abused as a child and gave an interview on the subject with Sky Sports where she said opening up about it has helped her heal and help others.

15. She joined the LIV Golf broadcast team in 2024 a reporter and interviewer.

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Elliott Heath
News Editor

Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!

Elliott is currently playing:

Driver: Titleist TSR4

3 wood: Titleist TSi2

Hybrids: Titleist 816 H1

Irons: Mizuno MP5 5-PW

Wedges: Cleveland RTX ZipCore 50, 54, 58

Putter: Odyssey White Hot OG #5

Ball: Srixon Z Star XV