David Feherty is likely one of the most beloved commentators in golf.
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David Feherty performed his fair proportion of strong 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 turn into one of the vital beloved characters in golf media.
The 66-year-old is finest recognized 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 potential to inform tales in a means that nobody else can. However even when Feherty is a personality within the story fairly than the narrator, there’s additionally certain to be some intrigue.
“Feherty tales are at all times the perfect,” Feherty’s longtime good friend and co-worker Ian Baker-Finch stated on this week’s episode of GOLF’s Subpar.
Baker-Finch recalled one explicit occasion when Feherty was driving via the seaside hills on his option to Pebble Seashore 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 street, 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 odor like deer piss,’” Baker-Finch stated. “[Feherty said], ‘Mhmm, it’s a protracted 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 primary commentators accessible for that interval, Peter Kostis and Feherty have been tasked with main the published.
“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 bought down there?’
“David stated, ‘It’s a protracted option to go. I’m undecided 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 at all times had the quickest, funniest, wittiest factor to say.”
For extra tales from Baker-Finch, take a look at the complete episode under.
