Captain America? David Feherty, the NBC-Golf Channel commentator and talk-show host, has coined a new nickname for Patrick Reed: Captain Oblivious.
“It’s going to follow him for the rest of his life,” Feherty said of Reed’s rules infraction at the Hero World Challenge in December. Reed made two practice strokes in a waste area that were deemed to have improved his line of play. A camera stationed directly behind him captured the piles of sand that Reed removed with those strokes.
Feherty, in an interview with SI.com promoting the 10th season of his show Feherty on Golf Channel, was then asked if Reed, who won the WGC-Mexico Championship last week, is the most polarizing figure in golf.
“I’m not even sure that he’s polarizing,” Feherty said. “I’m not sure there’s too many people on the other side, you know what I mean? I mean, ‘there is no God’ was the first thing I said after he’d won last week. There is no God, you know, that’s proof of it right there. Amazing. I mean, he is amazing. He’s Captain Oblivious, just can let everything run off his back. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Last week, reigning PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka and former CBS commentator Peter Kostis both called out Reed for his rules violation. Kostis noted on the No Laying Up podcast that he had observed Reed improve his lie “up close and personal.”
Feherty was also asked if he witnessed a player breaking a rule if he would mention it on the broadcast.
“Yes. You definitely do,” Feherty said. “Not necessarily on the air, but I mean, you point that out to your producer for sure. Tell them that you saw something happen and then, it’s kind of the producer’s decision.”
Feherty’s latest guest on his talk show this Monday is ESPN personality Scott Van Pelt, but it’s safe to say that Patrick Reed won’t be appearing on his show anytime soon.
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