Perspective: Before he became one of the most well-known voices in golf, David Feherty had to choose the sport over music, and convince his parents not to stop him.
He began competing in junior events around Ireland and Northern Ireland and had some success. There were other good young players in his age group, and he became friends with most of them. As his game improved, he began spending more and more time practicing, wanting to be better, wanting to win more often.
Feherty was already spending more and more time at the golf club, and David Jones took him under his wing, both as a golfer and as a person. “He was a moderately talented player at that point, which reminded me a lot of me as a teenager,” Jones remembers. “I was a 7-handicap when I turned pro, but I became a reasonably successful professional.“I saw that sort of potential in David because he was fearless. He had no quit in him.
David’s mom, Violet Feherty, was torn. “I wanted him to do something that would make him happy, but I really didn’t see any way back then that he could make a good living playing golf,” she says. “I still wonder what might have happened if he had stuck with music. But given the way things turned out, I guess he made the right choice.”
Feherty and Garth McGimpsey got along well, were good friends. Not so their fathers. By then, Billy Feherty had become emotionally invested in his son’s golf career, in part because he had improved, in part because he was his father. “It wasn’t as if it was truly dangerous,” Feherty says. “You’d occasionally get stopped for an ID check, but that was pretty much it. Still, there wasn’t a day that went by that I didn’t feel a little bit nervous driving through there.”He made it unscathed each day for two years. And he flourished at Balmoral, growing as a player under Daly and enjoying the membership.
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