Ken Venturi's final broadcast

From the end of Ken Venturi's final broadcast as CBS golf analyst. This was the 2002 Kemper Open. Bob Estes has a one-shot lead. All he needs to win is a two-putt par on the 18th hole. Ken, in his own eloquent way, goes out in style. I know what he's trying to say, but he says it so poorly. Good job by Jim Nantz as the straight man.

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[elprez1]

KV: You know, let me tell you something here, now---I've said it before and people don't understand it. Sometimes the most difficult putt in the world is to try to two-putt from the length---because if this was not the 18th hole, and he was on the golf course, out there, he would be trying to make it. He knows now that four wins, and all that counts is the speed. Get the right speed---line's important---but the speed is all-important.

[elprez1]

JN: I was hoping I would hear that one more time.

KV: You bet.

JN: Sometimes the hardest thing in the world to do is two-putt.

KV: I remember that one time I did that at Flint, Michigan, at, uh, Warwick Hills, and got criticized for it, and when it came back, I asked how---he had a 40-footer to win---I mean two-putt---and he--be tough to two-putt, I said, he said, That's not hard. I said, Where did his first putt go? He said Oh. I said He left it six feet short.

[trulymeparker]

The Masters commentary team won't be the same without him

[robertschelly]

I thought Venturi said it quite clearly . . . if one was or is a tournament-level competitive golfer you can understand what he means without difficulty. Nantz has no knowledge at that level.

[1BoomerTEE]

WELL DONE KEN...for all your years of"entertaiment" and, to ARNOLD for his Prostate Awareness.But who will tell the SENIORS about VISION loss(macular degeneration)AMD. Statistics show AMD surpasses Prostate in volumeric numbers(Novartis.com)Can you help us KEN?? Please view:

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CHEERS KEN,

Good Golfing

[HabloIrlandes]

Jeez, I dont think he says that poorly at all. I, as a golfer know exactly what he means. Ken Venturi was a great Golfer and a great commentator, a certain TW saw to it that his days were numbered because he had the gaul to suggest that getting the gallery to move a "boulder" from its position was not within the rule of moving a loose impediment. Unfortunately at the time the "powers that be" didnt know the truth about that same TW.