Get ready for some Monday Night Faldo.
Six-time major champion and World Golf Hall of Fame member Nick Faldo – Sir Nick Faldo, that is – stepped out of the CBS tower to star in two different series premiering on Monday night.
The lead golf analyst for CBS Sports expanded his wings with an adventure series titled “Days & Knights with Sir Nick,” which debuts on CBS Sports Network on Monday at 7:30 p.m. ET. Immediately following at 8 is Faldo’s other 30-minute program, “Faldo Formula – Mind. Body. Swing,” where he went back to his instructional roots. Days & Knights will air four consecutive weeks while Faldo Formula has a 10-week run. CBS’ main network will air two “Days and Knights with Sir Nick” later in the year.
All episodes were filmed before the COVID-19 global pandemic took hold. Faldo, however, did have to do some voice-overs for the shows while sheltered at his home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, the past eight weeks.
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“The goal was to show people the world that I see and have some fun out of it,” Faldo said in a phone interview with Golfweek. “Hopefully it’s some good harmless entertainment.”
Faldo said he stepped a little outside his box in Days and Knights, which is sort of a Where’s Faldo instead of Where’s Waldo? The show chronicles various escapades Faldo experienced around the world and his conversations with various celebrities, including those while caddying for Clint Eastwood, joking with Bill Murray and cooking with Iron Chefs Cat Cora and Michael Symon.
“I’ll be doing some crazy things,” as Faldo said, which, among them, is his stab at making a margarita.
“I travel the world and content is king and I’m in a new phase of my life,” said Faldo, 62. “Thought it would be quite a fun project to document what we are doing. We got a camera crew and we went to different places and met different people and we edited it into a show. I had a lot of fun with it.”
As he did with the Faldo Formula, where he teams up with coaches Kjell Enhager, Garth Milne and Dr. Craig Farnsworth to deliver swing tips, mental and physical exercises, lessons and course management strategies.
“I reboot my golf instruction to where we are in 2020 and people are more open to the mental side of the game and obviously the physical side,” Faldo said. “We’ve had 20 years now of Tiger and Rory and Brooks elevating the physical side of golf and Bryson DeChambeau going on another level to who knows what? I wanted to redo all of that once again.”
And Faldo, who wasn’t the chattiest of players en route to his more than 40 wins worldwide, barely stops talking while giving a playing lesson over 18 holes.
“It made me play great,” Faldo said.
“I did a running commentary before and after every shot and I shot 7 under and I haven’t shot 7 under for moons.”
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