Feherty, the Northern Irish broadcaster and former golfer, co-operated with his writer friend in the chronicling of an extraordinary life marked by tragedy, addiction, chaos, success and laughter
Feherty wasn’t like the other PGA Tour rookies in the room. By then he had played in the 1991 Ryder Cup and won five tournaments on the European Tour, none of which spared him the Hunger Games of Q school when he needed to pursue playing rights on the PGA Tour.
“One thing I learned from writing books for a long time is you never know as much as you might think about a person or a subject until you do a deep dive into their lives. David’s life was a lot more complex than we saw out front. Feherty was happy for Feinstein to talk to his kids, knowing that their childhoods with him had been rough at times, and expecting that they would be honest. He read the book from cover to cover before it went to print and he didn’t try to censor any of it.
Remarkably, the police officer called the chairman of Augusta National, asking what he should do with Feherty, rather than just booking him for driving under the influence. The green-jacketed emperor spared Feherty with a raised thumb, like a Christian in the Colosseum. “I think when he was first hired by CBS he was worried – they were worried – could he be funny sober?” says Feinstein. “He found out early that he could be. It came naturally to him sober.”
“Colin and Eimer walked away without another word,” says Feherty in the book. “I never found out if Colin got anything to eat that night. I suspect he did.”In later years he went on tour with a hugely successful one-man show, where he was essentially walking on stage as a stand-up comic. There is a certain tyranny in going through life as a funny man.
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