David Feherty
| David Feherty | |
|---|---|
| — Golfer — | |
Feherty and Tiger Woods in 2007
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | David Feherty |
| Born |
13 August 1958 Bangor, Northern Ireland |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Nationality |
 Northern Ireland United States
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| Residence | Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
| Spouse | Anita |
| Career | |
| Turned professional | 1976 |
| Retired | 1997 |
| Former tour(s) |
European Tour PGA Tour |
| Professional wins | 10 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| European Tour | 5 |
| Other | 5 |
| Best results in major championships |
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| Masters Tournament | T52: 1992 |
| U.S. Open | CUT: 1992 |
| The Open Championship | T4: 1994 |
| PGA Championship | T7: 1991 |
David Feherty (born 13 August 1958) is a former professional golfer on the European Tour and PGA Tour.
Since retiring, he has worked as a television personality; from 1997 through 2015, Feherty served as an on-course reporter for the PGA Tour on CBS. In 2011, he introduced a self-titled interview series on Golf Channel, and subsequently joined NBC Sports full-time in 2016.
Feherty was born in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. He lives with his second wife Anita and their five children in Dallas, Texas. They have one daughter, Erin, born in 1998. Anita Feherty has two sons from a former marriage. Until 1995 he was married to Caroline Feherty, a South African beauty queen. They have two sons.
Feherty turned professional in 1976 and spent most of his playing career in Europe, where he won five times and finished in the top ten twice in the European Tour's Order of Merit, placing tenth in 1989 and eighth in 1990. He spent 1994 and 1995 playing mainly on the PGA Tour in the U.S., and the best result on the tour was a second-place finish at the 1994 New England Classic. His combined career earnings exceeded $3 million. Feherty represented Ireland in international competition and captained the victorious 1990 Alfred Dunhill Cup team. Feherty played for Europe on the 1991 Ryder Cup team.
Feherty has had a long struggle with depression and alcoholism, which he publicly addressed in 2006. In an interview with Golf Magazine about his problems, Feherty said "I used alcohol to mask my inner demons". The outspoken columnist then took a shot at actor and noted Scientologist Tom Cruise, who has said that therapy and drugs are useless and that depression can be cured by physical exercise: "Actually, some sort of exercise would have helped me. If I kicked the shit out of Tom Cruise, I'd feel a lot better about myself." Along with George Lopez, Feherty hosted the Lopez-Feherty Foundation Anti-Pro-Am in November 2005.
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