The story of Gary McCord on his ban on masters resurfaced after the best players in the world in Augusta National.
Now 76, McCord is a former professional golfer who joined CBS Sports at the end of his career.
He worked as analyst at the Masters until 1994, when the comments he made on Air saw him at Augusta National and marked a “ lesion on the golf ” by the winner of eight times Tom Watson.
Augusta has a number of unique rules for broadcasters covering masters and McCord first courted the problems when he referred to “cheap seats”.
It saw him called a “stupid idiot” by a colleague from the CBS, but McCord incurred Augusta’s anger on the comments he made about Jose Maria Olazabal the emblematic Greens of the course.
“They speak Spanish, of course, and I said that the shopping cart, his brother, said to him:” Do not hit him on the green because there are body bags there, “recalls McCord.
Gary McCord explained why he had been prohibited to the masters of the comments he made on the air
“It’s a cliché, it is an understatement for” he is dead “. That’s it. All right. Nevermind. It was earlier in the show.
But he quickly found himself in hot water after spotting an advertisement for a living room in California.
“I put magazines up there with me (in the stand). All I do is read, I have words, I ingest words in my head. Any word, “ the analyst previously explained his podcast “off them rockers”.
“I looked up, we are on a commercial break, and I see the golden door, escondido, California, I live … it’s expensive.
I look at the menu of what girls get – cucumbers on their eyes, seaweed envelopes and bikini waxes …
These treatments found themselves in his mind when Olazabal faced a long putt.
“Jose strikes on the left and he must put right and … it’s just faster than hell,” said McCord.
“So I said:” This putt that Jose got here is really, really delicate. Once he arrived at the top of this hill, it is a speed monster all along.
Tom Watson (R) wrote to Augusta for the comments of McCord on Jose Maria Olazabal (R)
McCord claims that the president of CBS sport, who was sitting next to him, fell laughing but a few days later, the analyst was called for a meeting of a network.
“He gives me a letter, he is written in pencil … addressed to Augusta National. And he says “we have to eradicate this lesion on golf. It is the Golf Howard stern,” recalls McCord. It was signed by Watson.
The analyst was quickly informed that Augusta “ was preparing … for your death ” and that he was finally dismissed from the distribution of CBS masters.
