Golf Channel David Feherty Show, Season 2 Episode 1 Sergio Garcia Recap. Somehow Feherty Is Even Goofier This Season

For those of you who somehow didn’t know (hard to miss with seemingly every ad on Golf Channel previewing it), Season 2 of Golf Channel’s Feherty started this past week. The show is the loony and uniquely hilarious David Feherty traveling around the world to visit famous golfers and other athletes at their homes. In the inaugural season, Feherty traveled to meet with Lee Trevino, Greg Norman, Tom Watson, Charles Barkley, Don Cheadle and many others.

To kick off Season 2, Feherty traveled to the Iberian Peninsula, Castellon, Spain to be exact, to visit with Sergio Garcia in his native roots. While there, Feherty spent time with Sergio and his family (Sergio’s father Victor was his coach for many years), watched Sergio in action with his Boreal soccer (futbol) club, played some tennis (pictured above) and of course had a long, sit-down heart to heart with El Nino.

If you’ve seen the show before, you know that Feherty doesn’t shy away from asking the edgy questions or for being straight up honest with his interviewees- See the Charles Barkley interview where Feherty said straight to Charles, “You know, you really suck at golf.”

This first episode of Season 2 was no different as Feherty straight-up asked Sergio if former girlfriend Morgan-Leigh Norman broke his heart (Greg Norman’s daughter- they dated for several years, she broke it off in ’09), why Sergio used to blame everyone but himself when rounds went wrong (ie past quotes like, “I’m playing against a lot of guys out there, more than the field”), and if he’s finally grown up from his child-like, club throwing temper tantrum antics. Sergio really opened up about everything in his past and showed us that he may have grown up, at least a little.

Feherty also had some classic lines (as usual) in this episode, some of which were memorably touching. When remembering Sergio’s fellow Spaniard and former mentor Seve Ballesteros, Feherty said, “I played with Seve maybe a couple dozen times in my career….when I did, I always had the feeling that he could change the weather with his face. With his mood. One minute he was purple with rage, then the next moment he would smile and the sun would split the clouds. He had that animal, feline like grace………and I’ve seen that in you (looking at Sergio) as well, especially at Medinah when you hit that extraordinary shot at 16 and took off the fairway like a Cheetah.” It was touching, and I believe a purely accurate assessment of the he’s-still-only-31 El Nino.

There’s no doubt about it, Sergio was born with once-in-a-decade talent. As we wrote about last fall, Sergio Garcia is good for golf. Despite his past childish like antics and struggles with all parts of his life thus far, to use a gambling term, I’d hammer the over in the second half. I see huge things coming from Sergio in the next 5-10 years.

Joel Harrington

P.S. Since this blog was half about Sergio and half about Feherty’s show, figured I’d put a randomly hilariously clip of the goofball Feherty from the Sergio episode, see below.