David Feherty is among the most beloved commentators in golf.
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David Feherty performed his fair proportion of stable golf on the highest ranges, however arguably his largest contributions to the sport got here in his post-playing profession. Since his retirement from aggressive play within the late 90s, Feherty has develop into one of the beloved characters in golf media.
The 66-year-old is finest identified for his on-course reporting for CBS, NBC and now LIV Golf, however he’s additionally had success as a scribe, contributing to GOLF Journal periodically and writing a number of best-selling books.
Feherty has a uncommon reward in his capacity to inform tales in a manner that nobody else can. However even when Feherty is a personality within the story fairly than the narrator, there’s additionally positive to be some intrigue.
“Feherty tales are all the time the perfect,” Feherty’s longtime buddy and co-worker Ian Baker-Finch stated on this week’s episode of GOLF’s Subpar.
Baker-Finch recalled one specific occasion when Feherty was driving by means of the seaside hills on his strategy to Pebble Seaside when he hit a deer along with his automobile. In an act of humanity, Feherty put the deer out of its distress with a gun he saved inside his automobile, Baker-Finch stated. However when he went to maneuver the carcass off the highway, a number of the deer’s bodily fluids spilled onto his garments.
“When he arrived on the restaurant, one of many guys stated, ‘Wow, David, you scent like deer piss,’” Baker-Finch stated. “[Feherty said], ‘Mhmm, it’s an extended story.’”
On one other event, Feherty was on the bottom on the PGA Championship when the manufacturing truck skilled technical difficulties and misplaced energy momentarily. With out the principle commentators out there for that interval, Peter Kostis and Feherty have been tasked with main the printed.
“Kostis picks it up and he says, ‘Right here have been are on the thirteenth with Shigeki Maruyama,’” Baker-Finch stated. “‘David, what’s he obtained down there?’
“David stated, ‘It’s an extended strategy to go. I’m unsure whether or not he’s gonna make it.’
“We hear this whoosh and he hits it, and Peter says, ‘Nicely, how was it?’
“He stated, ‘Man, he actually smoked that one.’
“So he had in his thoughts the marijuana [which Maruyama sounds like]. It was a second the place David all the time had the quickest, funniest, wittiest factor to say.”
For extra tales from Baker-Finch, try the complete episode beneath.
