Peter Alliss once again steps into golf's gender zone

Popular but sometimes controversial golf commentator Peter Alliss of England has once more raised eyebrows with his comments about women.

The 86-year-old Alliss, who won 28 times as a pro before turning to broadcasting, has become a respected voice of golf in Great Britain since the 1960s despite sometimes putting his foot in his mouth.

In a recent interview with Newsweek, Alliss said: "I think women are more delicate than men. I like holding chairs for women. I enjoy the company of women. I don't want to be bullied by them. I don't care for macho women, I don't care for them very much. And yet they're prevalent today, and very prevalent in some cases. And very forward."

So far, the response has pretty much been that it simply was Alliss being Alliss.

In 2015, the BBC was forced to apologize for comments that Alliss made on the air about Paul Dunne when the Irish golfer was being hugged by his mother after finishing his round.

"Ah, that must be Mum," Alliss said. " (Or) perhaps he likes older women. I don't know, but I hope I got the right one."

When Zach Johnson captured the 2015 Open Championship at St. Andrews, the camera zoomed in on his wife, Kim, as Johnson lined up what proved to be the winning putt.

"She is probably thinking, 'If this goes in I get a new kitchen,'" Alliss said.

Of course, Alliss hasn't gotten into as much hot water as fellow British commentator Ben Wright, who once said on the air that, "Women golfers have trouble swinging a golf club because their breasts get in the way."

Wright was exiled for a while over that one.