Hazel Irvine

Hazel Irvine was the anchor for the Golf Women’s Open and co-presenter on ‘The Open’, ‘The Masters’, ‘The Ryder Cup’ and the ‘Solheim Cup’.  She has been an integral part of the BBC’s coverage of virtually all major events over the last two decades. Hazel’s many other credits include ‘Final Score’, ‘Football Focus’ and ‘Wimbledon.’  In addition to her role at BBC Sport, Hazel hosted the coverage of the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings in 2004. She has also presented three magazine programmes: BBC2’s  The Air Show; Feeling Good’, a health and wellbeing series and ‘Outside Now’, a leisure and activities series, both for BBC Scotland and has hosted the channel’s ‘Children In Need’ appeal and anchored its Millennium Night coverage.

Much in demand for corporate work, Hazel has acted as MC at the Royal Television Society’s Sports Awards, the industry’s most prestigious evening. Hazel was the recipient of the RTS Award for Best Regional Presenter/Reporter in 1999 and was named Sports Presenter of the Year at the RTS Sports Awards of 2006.  Hazel is a graduate of the University of St Andrews where she gained an MA Honours degree in Art History. She has representative honours in golf, netball and athletics and gained a full vest for athletics from Scottish Universities.

Also a well-regarded commentator, Hazel has guided viewers through Opening and Closing ceremonies at the Olympics and Commonwealth Games from Turin in 2006, Beijing, Vancouver, London, Sochi, Melbourne, Glasgow, Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and Gold Coast 2018. An estimated 28 million people watched London’s Opening ceremony.

As one of the very first female sports presenters in the country, Hazel has been at the heart of a story that has seen a transformation in the role and profile of women in broadcasting.