PGA of America president Ted Bishop still is a bit steamed about the U.S. Open to Fox announcement coming on the eve of the first round of the PGA Championship last week.

Appearing with Matt Adams on Fairways of Life on SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio today, Bishop took a few shots at the United States Golf Association. In fact, he, not Adams, brings it up first.

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Ted Bishop:  “There was nothing from outside the PGA Championship that happened last week that disrupted what we felt like was an important week in major golf.  We survived something there in the middle of the week that had no impact on our championship whatsoever and we were proud of everything that happened at Oak Hill.”

Matt Adams:  “You’re talking about the USGA’s announcement of the television rights going to Fox?”

Bishop:  “Yeah, I think that’s what I was probably referring to.  This is the week of the U.S. Amateur, right? … Let me just say this: So this being the week of the U.S. Amateur, there’s no way the PGA of America would make an announcement on where a future Ryder Cup and PGA Championship site [would be] that would be as big as Bethpage, we wouldn’t want to be a distraction to any of our allied associations.”

Adams:  “How upset were you when the USGA had that announcement last week in the middle of your PGA Championship?”

Bishop:  “You know what?  I tell you what, I think I speak for everybody at the PGA of America in saying that we knew we were going to have a great championship, we were so happy to be at Oak Hill, and we were not going to let anything whatsoever distract or disturb the week that we were going to have.”

Adams:  “Did you deliberately allow the information on New York to come out this week in the middle of the U.S. Amateur as a result?”

Bishop:  “No!  Are you kidding?  I mean, first of all, as I said there is no announcement today.  That article is strictly, at this point in time, total rumor.  No, and I’m saying this in the right vein, I’m absolutely insulted that anybody would think that.  Because, obviously, today in New York is all about our champion, Jason Dufner, and we cannot be responsible [for] or control what the media writes.”

Adams:  “Is there an unspoken rule among golf governing bodies that when they have an event going on that is so important that you kind of leave it alone?”

Bishop:  “Well obviously there’s not. (laughs)  There’s not at least within the circles of one of golf’s governing bodies.  But I don’t think that anybody would have made that announcement during the Masters.  I don’t think the USGA would have made that announcement during the Open Championship, and I can unequivocally tell you that the PGA of America would not make any kind of a major announcement that would upstage any one of our major championship partners, nor the PGA TOUR.  It’s just not the right way to do things.”

Adams:  “Why did it happen then?  Is there some bad blood still festering?”

Bishop:  “You know what, there’s none on our end.  You’d have to talk to somebody in Far Hills about that.”