Feherty: Show will go on
CBS Golf personality and Golf Magazine columnist David Feherty said on the Dan Patrick radio show Wednesday morning that he will return to work this week after a bicycle accident left him with broken ribs and a punctured lung.
"The entire right side of my body is perfect," Feherty said. "So I can drive as long as I just make right turns. It's very difficult to plot a route that way. Sometimes you have to go 50, 60 miles in the wrong direction, but I can do it."
Feherty also said the timing of his accident, in which he was sideswiped by a truck while riding near his home in Dallas, was fortuitous. It came during the Florida swing, which is televised by NBC, and Feherty's first event back is one in which he does considerably less walking than usual.
"Fortunately this is the one tournament of the year where I don't walk," he said. "I'm at the 15th tower and I cover the 15th and the 4th holes only."
Asked for his prediction, Feherty replied, "If it's not Mickelson or Woods I'll be surprised."
Click here to listen to the complete broadcast, and you can read his best lines from the interview here.
(Photo: Fred Vuich/SI)
Posted by: Matthew Pfleger | May 10, 2008 6:17:14 AM
David,
I'm a greenskeeper. I keep getting hit at by golfers who don't understand that, I cannot see the ball they just struck when my back is to them.
While mowing fairways, golfers should let me finish 'my pass' and pull over, before they hit.
A column about the frustrations of lowly, muny greenskeeper and the idiot patrons, with one of those cool illustrations in GOLF
would be so great.
Like, an operator on a Jacobsen F-310 mowing away from a foursome, with one knuckhead taking a backswing, and the other three members hollering STOP.
Just an idea.
Glad you're feeling better.
Matt
Posted by: Sin | Apr 10, 2008 10:25:45 AM
Hi David,
I wish you well. You are one of the rare truly entertaining commentators. Also, I loved your golf commercials.
Cheers, Sin