David Feherty...................what a star!

[Slime]

Hi fellas,
some of David Feherty's best lines as a golf commentator :

“Fortunately, he (Rory) is 22 years old so his right wrist should be the strongest muscle in his body.”

“That ball is so far left, Lassie couldn’t find it if it was wrapped in bacon.”

“I am sorry Nick Faldo couldn’t be here this week. He is attending the birth of his next wife.”

Tommy Gainey’s grip - “They look like two lobsters trying to mate.”

“They don’t do comedy at the Masters. The Masters, for me, is like holding onto a really big collection of gas for a week. It’s likehaving my buttocks surgically clenched at Augusta General Hospital on Wednesday, and surgically unclenched on Monday on the way to Hilton Head.”

Jim Furyk’s swing - “It looks like an octopus falling out of a tree.”

“He’s (Luke Donald) a bloody walking ATM. I slid my AmEx between the cheeks of his ass and out popped $500.”

Describing VJ's prodigious practice regime - "VJ hits more balls than Elton John's chin."

"That's a great shot with that swing."

"It's ok - the bunker stopped it."

At Augusta 2011 - "It's just a glorious day. The only way to ruin a day like this would be to play golf on it."

"That was a great shot - if they'd put the pin there today."

"All you need for a happy life is good health and a bad memory"

"Everything moves except his bowels."

"Watching Phil Michelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff."


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[stevie_r]

I'm pretty sure that the 'he has a swing like someone trying to kill a snake in a phone box' was one of his as well

 

[Slime]

I'm pretty sure that the 'he has a swing like someone trying to kill a snake in a phone box' was one of his as well

I'm not sure who's quote that was, but, I'm pretty sure they were describing Eamonn Darcy's swing.

Slime.

 

[Chris1980]

Genius!

 

[stevie_r]

I'm not sure who's quote that was, but, I'm pretty sure they were describing Eamonn Darcy's swing.

Slime.

Certainly not a thing of beauty but hey, it made him some money

 

[CallawayKid]

"That's a great shot with that swing."

I've used this a few times on society matches, it's amazing how that gets into peoples heads!

CK

 

[Dreamer2]

Brilliant ,when i first heard is commentating ,i thought it was Roy Walker of that itv program Catch phrase

 

[Val]

He is class, the show he does on the golf channel is superb which unfortunately we don't get in the UK

 

[Junior]

Very good !! I was just watching the golf that i sky +'d and was thinking how bad the commentary is on sky. Some of it is ok, but in the main its terrible.

C'mon sky shake it up a bit.

 

[markyjee]

He's a funny guys, I heard Sam Torrance on talksport saying feherty has had 4 or 5 books published, has anyone read any of them?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

He has been a class on course reporter for a while and does add some colour to a pretty mundane US coverage. Shame he has got his US citizenship now and become a big believer in his own self-publicity. People I know Stateside who have met him say he's well up himself

 

[painterboy]

He has been a class on course reporter for a while and does add some colour to a pretty mundane US coverage. Shame he has got his US citizenship now and become a big believer in his own self-publicity. People I know Stateside who have met him say he's well up himself

Yes,a complex guy who has some major problems ( alcoholism, depression) althrough married with 5 kids seem to remember many years ago he was either divorced or lost the love of his life to another man(stand too be corrected),could have been a sucessful opera singer.
Find his 'quotes' often to have an edge too them.

 

[bluetoon]

The guy is great, would love him and Wayne Riley to be our oncourse team

This is my fav

“He’s (Luke Donald) a bloody walking ATM. I slid my AmEx between the cheeks of his ass and out popped $500.”​

 

[birdieman]

He's a funny guys, I heard Sam Torrance on talksport saying feherty has had 4 or 5 books published, has anyone read any of them?

Yep, read somewhere in Ireland a village is missing its idiot - a good read, not terrific as it plods in places but has some good anecdotes and did make me chuckle a bit. His tales of playing with Torrance(his best pal) at his only Ryder Cup in 91 are really funny.

He'snot everyone's cup of tea but I like him.

Incidentally Torrance was on Keys and Gray the other morning and was a really good guest, pretty funny tales.

 

[StrangelyBrown]

They're ace Thanks for posting

 

[r1965h]

A friend of mine was an assistant pro at the time of the Open at Birkdale in 1998. He got through to the final qualifying the week before the Open and played with Feherty.

My friend failed to qualify with rounds of 80 and 71 and asked Feherty if if he could give him any advice being a young lad just starting out in his pro career. Feherty's advice was "Hit it softer and less often".