His most memorable call? 'Tiger Woods, sixth hole at the 2000 U.S. Open: My response was 'just not a fair fight.''
to our everlasting chagrin but he still is making a few appearances here and there, including a few weeks ago in Napa at the Fortinet Championship, not far from his old stomping grounds as a NorCal golfer.
Then you transition to a period where they knew I played and then another generation comes in, and now they don’t even know you played golf. I won my last tournament in ’85, and these kids weren’t born.I was asked in the late ’80s, about ’88. NBC auditioned me at Kapalua when that was an unofficial event at the end of the year. I thought, well, that’s pretty cool, I’ll go to Hawaii, see what this is like. I was rehabbing from my first shoulder surgery. I had a couple of those.
So I did the Hope and did the Ryder Cup. It was kind of funny that for the Sunday singles matches I had David Feherty versus Payne Stewart, and Feherty was wiping the floor with Payne. It wasn’t much of a match. Up ahead a couple of groups, Mark Calcavecchia had this big lead on Colin Montgomerie. I don’t know if you remember how all that shook out but I think Montgomerie won like the last four holes with bogeys or something like that.
A couple of weeks later, Mark Rolfing, who was the lead walker for NBC, left and went to ABC because they had the majors and NBC had no majors. So I get a call. We want to hire you. What? I figured, TV, that’s never going to happen after what I just did, the insubordination I just showed. I’m proud to have won on a golf course of that caliber, and I won the World Series in ’85 at Firestone, and that’s another hell of a golf course. Back in the day, the distance we hit it and the clubs and balls we used, it was everything you could handle as a par-70.
So I won two in a row, went home for a couple weeks and I was Rookie of the Year, that stuff. I got more money than exists in the whole world and I’m having a great time with my buddies. You’re going to make mistakes. When you make a mistake, you’ve got to get over it, otherwise it’s going to compound itself, just like playing golf. You don’t get a mulligan. All that was very similar, and when you did it right, it was like hitting one flush. When the words came out, you described it as briefly as you could, you made the point or you thought something would happen and it happened when the guy played the shot, it felt good. You had that immediate feedback.
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