A hungover David Feherty
On the eve of the 2020 Waste Management Phoenix Open, the NBC/Golf Channel analyst hosted a media roundtable in which he was asked about the time he was penalized for not using a proper ball marker. Without one—or apparently, even a coin—on him, Feherty instead used his hotel room key on the green during an unspecified Houston Open. And, well, here's how he tells it:
"Vaughn Moise gave me the penalty," Feherty recalled. "At the time we were playing the Houston Open and I, when I teed off that morning I was a little unprepared, to say the least, and confused, maybe slightly hungover."Go on. . ."I didn't have a marker with me, so I had this hotel, it was actually—when they gave you a key rather than the damn cards that we get now, and that's all I had in my pocket," Feherty continued. "And I used it to mark my ball and I can't remember how it came about, but 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. Yeah. That's all of that story."
"Vaughn Moise gave me the penalty," Feherty recalled. "At the time we were playing the Houston Open and I, when I teed off that morning I was a little unprepared, to say the least, and confused, maybe slightly hungover."Go on. . ."I didn't have a marker with me, so I had this hotel, it was actually—when they gave you a key rather than the damn cards that we get now, and that's all I had in my pocket," Feherty continued. "And I used it to mark my ball and I can't remember how it came about, but 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. Yeah. That's all of that story."
