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For you golfers who were the best past announcers on tv broadcasts?
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Jul 20, 2024, 12:16 PM
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Ken Venturi
Pat Summerall
Ben Wright
Johnny Miller
Judy Rankin
Peter Alliss
Bob Rosburg
Dave Marr
Jack Whitaker
Vin Scully
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Re: For you golfers who were the best past announcers on tv broadcasts?
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Jul 20, 2024, 12:22 PM
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Dr. Cary Middlecoff
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Re: For you golfers who were the best past announcers on tv broadcasts?
Jul 20, 2024, 5:49 PM
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I knew Dr. Middlecoff pretty well when I was doing some work in Memphis ..... had lunch with him a number of times. I always liked him a lot. Once he was not capable of playing golf like he used to, he just quit. I never saw him pick up a club in his later years.
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I'm in the minority, but enjoyed Johnny Miller, Nick Faldo and David Feherty***
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Jul 20, 2024, 12:24 PM
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Re: I'm in the minority, but enjoyed Johnny Miller, Nick Faldo and David Feherty***
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Jul 20, 2024, 12:32 PM
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I liked Feherty and also Scully wasn't bad.
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I don't think that's a minority at all. Anyone who actually golfed appreciated
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Jul 22, 2024, 9:22 AM
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the takes from Johnny Miller, and following him, Nick Faldo. And David Feherty was great, on golf, as well as on conquering the personal demons of life. Look up the Feherty episode with Tom Watson sometime, David gives Watson a lot of credit for literally saving his life. Prior to watching that, I did not know that Watson had had his own struggles with the bottle.
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Re: For you golfers who were the best past announcers on tv broadcasts?
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Jul 20, 2024, 1:34 PM
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Johnny Miller because he always told it like it was.
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Re: For you golfers who were the best past announcers on tv broadcasts?
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Jul 20, 2024, 2:43 PM
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I wanted to say Enberg but tnet won't let me type his first name. Yet they can run a sporting good chain's ads. 
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Re: For you golfers who were the best past announcers on tv broadcasts?
Jul 20, 2024, 5:00 PM
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DickEnberg
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Re: For you golfers who were the best past announcers on tv broadcasts?
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Jul 20, 2024, 2:56 PM
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I always enjoyed Tom Weiskoph. Especially his call of the ‘86 Masters
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Re: For you golfers who were the best past announcers on tv broadcasts?
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Jul 20, 2024, 5:28 PM
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I think you named them all. Loved Johnny Miller.
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Re: For you golfers who were the best past announcers on tv broadcasts?
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Jul 20, 2024, 6:06 PM
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Roger Maltbie. I was a walking scorer at the Honda Classic for a few years around 1999-2002. I remember the first time I was walking down the fairway with a group of golfers and this guy walks up next to me and asks “how many fairways has Payne hit today?” I told him and heard him immediately say “Payne has hit 8 out of 12 fairways today”. I turned to look at realized it was Roger Maltbie and he was doing the TV broadcast. I’m thinking well, now I know how that works. This was prior to Shotlink and all the stats were kept manually by the walking scorers.
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Some would include Jim McKay on this list
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Jul 20, 2024, 6:09 PM
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but he was never a particular favorite of mine
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Re: Some would include Jim McKay on this list
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Jul 21, 2024, 8:39 AM
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Terry Gannon
Paul Azinger
Anybody but Brandel Chamblee
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Re: Some would include Jim McKay on this list
Jul 21, 2024, 5:44 PM
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Agree on Chamblee. I tried to start a movement to get him off of GC but no luck. He is a cocky, rambling, little s - - t.
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To me, McKay was much like Vin Scully. He was a "Company Man" who the
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Jul 22, 2024, 9:24 AM
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network just threw at golf as a sideline. The best golf commentators were the ones who made that sport their main focus. Jim Nance is somewhat in that same category, although he was always paired with one of the greats.
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Miller, Faldo, and Feherty. Older than that, Allis, Wright, and Marr.
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Jul 21, 2024, 12:30 PM
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I always thought Judy Rankin was really good, as well. But, most dismissed her because she was a woman commenting on men's golf. She had the pedigree to comment on ANY form of golf she wanted.
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Re: For you golfers who were the best past announcers on tv broadcasts?
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Jul 21, 2024, 8:47 PM
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Nick Faldo
Jim Nance
David Feherity
Verne Lindquist
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Miller and Faldo***
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Jul 21, 2024, 8:52 PM
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Re: For you golfers who were the best past announcers on tv broadcasts?
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Jul 21, 2024, 10:47 PM
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The two at the top of your list, especially when paired.
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Re: For you golfers who were the best past announcers on tv broadcasts?
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Jul 22, 2024, 4:38 AM
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Pat Summerall followed closely by Jim Nance.
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