Ken Foote's Radio TV Files: The PGA Returns To CBS This Weekend
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This weekend, CBS Sports begins its coverage of the 2016 PGA Tour, a staple of the Network's sports programming for well over 40 years, with the exception of the Masters which has been televised on CBS since 1956.
Golf on CBS has had wonderful announcers over the years, such as Pat Summerall, Verne Lundquist, Vin Scully, Gary Bender, Jack Whitaker, and Frank Glieber to name a few. Lundquist was a sportscaster for WFAA Channel 8 in the early 1970's (now the voice of the SEC On CBS and NCAA Basketball) and Glieber was Sports Director for KRLD Radio (today a subsidiary of CBS Radio, the copyright holder of this blog). Lundquist will occasionally work a tournament. Glieber unexpectedly passed away in 1985.
As golf fans know, the PGA typically starts their tour on the West Coast and that's where CBS Sports will be this weekend, January 30-31st, at the Farmers Insurance Open from the Torrey Pines Golf Course in LA Jolla CA. We will also air the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the Northern Trust Open in February.
Once CBS concludes its coverage of NCAA Basketball, it will resume golf with The Masters from the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta GA, its 60th anniversary of televising this, one of the longest continuous running sporting events on the Network.
The AT&T Byron Nelson and the Colonial National Invitational, held locally in the DFW area, will again be a part of the schedule. And one of the "grand slam" tournaments, the PGA Championship, is scheduled this year on July 28-31, 2016 from Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield NJ. (usually an August event).
Jim Nantz and Sir Nick Faldo will once again be the lead announcers for the majority of the tournaments. Bill Macatee and Ian Baker-Finch will be the backup team on certain tournaments. David Feherty, who had been CBS's golf analyst for 18 years, left last year. Dottie Pepper, who has been a golf analyst with ESPN, will be CBS's first female golf analyst starting this season.
So get into the "swing of things" (no pun intended) and tune in to CBS golf this year! See you next time.