Faldo bid farewell Sunday during the final round of the 2022 Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina. The six-time major ...
Well old boy, perhaps we’ll have the chance to be paired together on the Gallatin River in Montana, with a fly rod instead of a golf club.” And I cannot wait to come and visit you and Lindsay at Faldo Farm. Thanks, my friend.” To really get to know Nick Faldo you’ve got to look at it in reverse. He took me under his wing, he’s been a mentor to me ever since through my playing career, starting on the European Tour and then the PGA Tour. And when I started broadcasting, he did the same. In the last two decades we’ve been paired together many times at various TV towers around the world, the last 16 years here at CBS. It’s been a great honor, and I’m sad to see you go, like all of us are here. Trevor Immelman reminisced, “I was very fortunate to meet Sir Nick when I was 15 years old.
Nick Faldo retired after 19 years as a golf broadcaster. Here's what his friends and colleagues had to say.
Well old boy, perhaps we’ll have the chance to be paired together on the Gallatin River in Montana, with a fly rod instead of a golf club.” And I think it’s fair to say that you let us see as a broadcaster what’s in your heart, much more than we did with your stoic manner as a player. To really get to know Nick Faldo you’ve got to look at it in reverse. And I cannot wait to come and visit you and Lindsay at Faldo Farm. Thanks, my friend.” He took me under his wing, he’s been a mentor to me ever since through my playing career, starting on the European Tour and then the PGA Tour. And when I started broadcasting, he did the same. The broadcast also featured a handful of messages from Faldo’s former and current colleagues both on and off the golf course, and it got to be pretty emotional at times.
The CBS Golf team bid an emotional farewell to longtime lead analyst Nick Faldo on Sunday, who is retiring after 16 years.
The camera faded to black on that image — a well-deserved feat for one of golf’s great ambassadors. “The six majors, world number one ranking, and then in 2007 you join CBS and your second act as the world’s best. “You know, folks, it’s rare for anyone to be the best in the world at one thing. “Leaving a full schedule of broadcasting will now provide me the ability to entertain other opportunities and partnerships.” I’m honored to have my name sandwiched between yours on the Claret Jug — ’90, ’91, ’92 — I look at that all the time with great pleasure,” Baker-Finch said. It’s a weekend of lasts on the PGA Tour. The last tournament of the 2022 regular season.
Nick Faldo and Ian Baker-Finch both teared up following a tribute to Faldo during his final broadcast with CBS. See the video.
Broadcasts on CBS and the Golf Channel will not be the same without him. That tournament later became The Wyndham Championship. Nick Faldo announced earlier this summer that he is leaving CBS after a 16-year run, and his final broadcast with the network was on Sunday. The occasion was a very emotional one for the six-time major champion and his colleagues.
After 16 years at CBS, Nick Faldo is calling his last PGA Tour event at the Wyndham Championship this weekend.
In addition to his six wins, Faldo posted 20 top 10s at major tournaments. Included in those nine PGA Tour victories were six major titles: Faldo won the Masters in 1989, 1990 and 1996 and the Open in 1987, 1990 and 1992. Before getting into broadcasting, the 65-year-old Faldo recorded 30 wins on the European Tour and nine on the PGA Tour in a professional career that spanned nearly four decades.
Nick Faldo ended his broadcasting career today at the Wyndham Championship. Alongside him, Jim Nantz detailed the 32 majors, 500 broadcasts and 2500 hours ...
He explained that his highlights in the booth included Rory at Valhalla in 2014 and Tiger’s 15th major at Augusta in 2019. He was able to explain how a professional golfer thinks during tournaments, picking up on small behaviour traits that may have gone unnoticed by the casual viewer. Alongside him, Jim Nantz detailed the 32 majors, 500 broadcasts and 2500 hours he had shared with Faldo in the commentary booth.
Throughout an illustrious playing career, Nick Faldo was known as a stoic competitor who rarely let his guard down. It was a famously even keel – he won The ...
“That’s a long run of airports, hotel rooms and restaurant meals.” It was appropriate. He looks forward to spending time with his family, three dogs and wildlife. That was 2006, and here we are, 16 years later.” Thank you.” Throughout an illustrious playing career, Nick Faldo was known as a stoic competitor who rarely let his guard down.
The six-time major winner grew tearful at the conclusion of his 16-year run as the network's lead golf analyst.
“As I affectionately and respectfully call you, the workers, they put the pictures out, we do the rattling, we have an easy job. In the last two decades, we’ve been paired together many times at various TV towers around the world, and in fact the last 16 years here at CBS. It’s been a great honor, and I’m sad to see you go, like all of us are here. Replacing him next year as Nantz’s partner and the network’s lead analyst will be Trevor Immelman, a former Masters winner who has worked with CBS for several years. That was 2006, and here we are 16 years later.” “I was all ready.” With the help of some pronounced deep breaths, the 65-year-old Englishman gathered himself to offer insight into his feelings about signing off one last time.
Nick Faldo is going beyond the 18th hole. The golf legend turned CBS broadcaster celebrated his retirement on Sunday after the final round of the Wyndham ...
“As I affectionately and respectfully call you the workers, they put the pictures out, we do the rattling, we have an easy job. That was 2006, and here we are 16 years later,” Faldo said. Faldo, 65, won six majors before becoming a golf analyst for 16 years.
There was a symmetry to Nick Faldo making the Wyndham Championship his final broadcast as an analyst for CBS Sports. It was the same tournament 43 years ...
Thank you. Thank you. “May the sands of time be very kind to you, my friend.”
Faldo's longtime CBS broadcast partner Jim Nantz and colleagues Ian Baker-Finch and Frank Nobilo celebrated his retirement (and his long career in the booth) ...
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Nick Faldo finished 16 years on the air with CBS on Sunday, with the network delivering its final golf broadcast of the year with the Wyndham Championship.
And now, you and Linds will go to your happy place. He tried saying a few thank-yous to the crew and mentioned “I’ve found these three brothers” to his on-air partners. To the big sky of Montana. God bless you, Nick. Thanks my friend.”