re: RIP Ken Venturi...dead at 82

How ironic and appropriate that he died the week of the Byron Nelson golf tournament as Lord Byron was his hero growing up. CBS has had a tough year as two of their broadcasting legends have passed away in the last 2 months.

Venturi: “When I was 13 years old, the teacher told my mother, ‘I’m sorry, Mrs. Venturi, but your son will never be able to speak. He’s an incurable stammerer,’” Venturi said in 2011. “My mother asked me what I planned to do. I said, ‘I’m taking up the loneliest sport I know,’ and picked up a set of hickory shaft across the street from a man and went to Harding Park and played my first round of golf.”

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Damn and just elected to the HOF

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Why couldnt it have been Johnny Miller?

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Damn RIP

Venturi's interview with Fehrety was an unbelievable insight to the world of golf, hanging with Sinatra and the "rat pack" and how almost winning the master's as an amateur would have completely changed the course of his life.

I'm sure they'll replay it - and I highly recommend watching it.

Ironic indeed.

They just said on TGC that they are going to reair Feherty's hour long interview with Kenny Monday night at 10 Eastern.