David Feherty has many wild and hilarious stories about his days as a Tour pro, but he told one on Wednesday that some in the golfing world might not have heard yet. What did we learn from it? Always bring a ball marker.
NBC Sports/GOLF Channel analysts Feherty and Arron Oberholser participated in a media roundtable at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, and one reporter asked Feherty to retell the story about that time he was penalized for an obscure reason at the Houston Open.
“When I teed off that morning I was a little unprepared, to say the least,” Feherty said. “And confused, maybe slightly hungover.”
Feherty said he got to the course in the morning and didn’t have a marker on him. So he had to improvise.
“[Hotels] gave you a key rather than the damn cards that we get now, and that’s all I had in my pocket,” Feherty said. “And I used it to mark my ball and I can’t remember how it came about, but [rules official] Vaughn Moise, he sort of became aware of this and he came over and said, ‘You can’t do that. It’s got to be a disk, it’s got to be whatever it was at the time.’ Now you can mark your ball with an elephant turd. It doesn’t make any difference. But back then it was a penalty.”
