Longtime CBS golf broadcaster Nick Faldo is taking off his headset after 16 years.
Faldo bid farewell Sunday in the course of the last spherical of the 2022 Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Nation Membership in Greensboro, North Carolina. The six-time main champion was honored with a plaque behind the ninth inexperienced on the membership’s Wall of Fame.
The printed featured emotional messages from Faldo’s former and present colleagues each on and off the golf course.
Trevor Immelman reminisced, “I used to be very lucky to satisfy Sir Nick once I was 15 years outdated. He took me below his wing, he’s been a mentor to me ever since via my enjoying profession, beginning on the European Tour after which the PGA Tour. And once I began broadcasting, he did the identical. So, Nick, thanks a lot for all the pieces that you simply’ve carried out for me. Each time I sit on this chair, as lead analyst, I will likely be considering of you. And I can not wait to come back and go to you and Lindsay at Faldo Farm. Thanks, my pal.”
Frank Nobilo additionally added his nicely needs.
“Nick, not everybody has a profession such as you, careers, golf and TV. Your report stands for itself. To essentially get to know Nick Faldo you’ve received to have a look at it in reverse. In case you check out your broadcasting profession you had been daring sufficient to point out all people on the market, together with ourselves, actually what’s inside your feelings. You weren’t scared to do this. Simply as importantly when it got here to enjoying golf, you had been robust sufficient to not reveal them. So I simply wish to say, as a fellow broadcaster, as a fellow golfer, however extra importantly as a pal, thanks mate.”
Ian Baker-Finch summed up the emotions on Faldo.
“You’ve taught me a lot, and for that I’m grateful. I’m honored to have my title sandwiched between yours on the Claret Jug, ’90-’91-’92, I take a look at that on a regular basis with nice pleasure. Within the final twenty years we’ve been paired collectively many occasions at numerous TV towers world wide, the final 16 years right here at CBS. It’s been an awesome honor, and I’m unhappy to see you go, like all of us are right here. Properly outdated boy, maybe we’ll have the prospect to be paired collectively on the Gallatin River in Montana, with a fly rod as a substitute of a golf membership.”
