Feherty talks the talk on new TV show

IT has been five years since David Feherty touched alcohol but on the Sunday night of the Masters this year, he was happy to watch his fellow Irishman Rory McIlroy nurse a bottle of beer.

McIlroy, a few weeks short of 22nd birthday, had just experienced the most disappointing setback of his young career when the lead he had held for 63 holes at Augusta National evaporated after a terrible tee shot at the 10th hole and Feherty marvelled at his maturity.

“I was with him that Sunday night at Augusta and I said, ‘you doing all right kid?’” Feherty recalled. “And he said, ‘hey, if that’s the worst day of my life, I will be a hell of a lot better off than most people’.