"You know where your club is. Former CBS Golf analyst Peter Kostis took aim at his old employer, the PGA Tour and Patrick Reed in a provocative interview on this week’s No Laying Up Podcast. Former CBS commentator Peter Kostis is the latest to call out Patrick Reed, saying the golfer four times improved his lie or his line of play while Kostis witnessed it in his duties for the network. I've seen Patrick Reed improve his lie up close and personal four times now. Later in the interview, Kostis was asked about Reed and whether the incident that took place with him at the Hero World Challenge surprised the former announcer. “That’s the only time I ever shut (Gary) McCord up," Kostis said. “I was in the tower on 16 at [the Farmers Insurance Open in] San Diego, and [Reed] hit it over the green and did the same thing,” Kostis said. Some people probably don’t get it... #patrickreed @astros #Astros pic.twitter.com/rGw9IS5zgK. RELATED: CBS Sports broadcast mistakes at Genesis Invitational draw criticism. “I’m not going to assign intent, all I’m going to tell you is what I saw,” he said. PODCAST: Peter Kostis on his pivotal role in “Tin Cup” & Tiger’s softer side. Former CBS Golf analyst Peter Kostis took aim at his old employer, the PGA Tour and Patrick Reed in a provocative interview on this week’s No Laying Up Podcast. CBS is reportedly close to signing a nine-year extension of its broadcast contract with the tour of the current contract that ends in 2020. ... You can go on YouTube. “I mean, I don’t know what he was doing, building sand castles in the sand," Koepka told SiriusXM. He said he wasn’t retiring and was just being edged out. This form needs Javascript to display, which your browser doesn’t support. Kostis suggested his blunt style clashed with the tour’s emphasis on promotion, saying the tour wants more “cheerleaders” than analysts. They don’t care about anything other than promotion. And then, I got a phone call the next day from New York. Subscribe to MLive.com. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Reed was assessed a 2-stroke penalty and, after reviewing video with PGA Tour rules officials, said he understood given the view that was presented -- but added that it did not show that his ball was farther away from the clump of sand than was evident in the video. Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify, © 2020 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved Done deal: Steve Cohen is Mets new owner after MLB, de Blasio approve, © 2020 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Popular sports radio host fired for 'racist' comments, How Craig Carton went from 'scared to death' of prison to second WFAN chance, Craig Carton's official WFAN return sets up intriguing ratings war, World Series ratings were devastatingly bad, In a tell-all interview with the “No Laying Up” podcast, Bill de Blasio vs. Steve Cohen Mets war: How lawyers see it playing out, Kevin Cash latest to fall down analytics rabbit hole, Giants stars got a giant coronavirus wake-up call. “I honestly think, and this is my opinion and it’s been corroborated by anonymous inside sources that media likes to use these days, that it was the tour that told CBS to get younger. Jason Day somehow won his wife over with a mullet, tight jeans and… a scrapbook? Three days after CBS announced it was not renewing the contracts of Kostis or Gary McCord, the network announced it had hired Davis Love III as a new announcer, timing that would suggest there was a strategy being followed. They don’t care about anything other than promotion. They don’t care about the quality of the viewer experience. Sitemap

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Four-time major champion Brooks Koepka spoke out against Reed this week, even comparing him to the Houston Astros. A source familiar with the relationship between the tour and its broadcast partners disputed that the tour requested any of the changes to the CBS broadcast lineup. Reed accepted the penalty and argued his actions were accidental. Reed’s rules fiasco ignited the golf world in December when he was assessed a two-stroke penalty for improving his lie in a waste area at the Hero World Challenge. They had gotten a call from the commissioner, and the commissioner was upset I didn’t say, first off, that he had won 500 FedEx Cup points. Post was not sent - check your email addresses!

Kostis said that he did not know whether Reed was using that technique to gain an advantage but that he did not see other players employing the tactic. And he didn’t want me talking about majors.”. Reed has taken some heat since the Bahamas incident, including a fan yelling “Cheater!” after he hit a putt in Hawaii last month. I mean, every time I get in the bunker I’m scared to even get my club close to it, it was that far away, but whenever you do that if it does hit the sand, just like if you’re in a hazard area and you take a practice swing and it brushes grass and the grass breaks, it’s a penalty,” Reed said. Peter Kostis Unvarnished Truth Interview about the PGA Tour, and Patrick Reed the outright cheater Sign in to follow this . “I got the feeling that it was more about saving face for them than trying to do something nice for me.”. But it wasn’t only at The Barclays that Kostis said he witnessed what he deemed to be questionable behavior from Reed. But on Wednesday, ScoreGolf’s Rick Young published an interview he conducted with Kostis in the wake of Kostis’ CBS dismissal, and, Kostis opened up about the disappointment he’s feeling with the network, as well as the reasons he believes are behind his firing. By the time he was done, he hit a freaking 3-wood out of there. Kostis gives other examples regarding Reed, but again, you should listen to the entire interview. Kostis, who first joined CBS Sports as an on-course reporter and golf analyst in 1992, recalled when the PGA Tour criticized him for a winner’s interview he conducted with an unidentified rookie. It’s rare, it’s really, really rare on the PGA Tour; 99.9 percent of the guys play by the rule book,” Kostis said. And then, I got a phone call the next day from New York. As Kostis notes, he may not work for CBS anymore, but whether it’s through his Twitter feed or interviews like this, he’s certainly not retired from being one of the game’s loudest voices. They don’t care about anything other than promotion.

“I asked [CBS Sports chairman] Sean McManus why he was doing it,” Kostis said. Ex-broadcaster Kostis latest to call out Reed. I think the tour had an issue with me not being a cheerleader.”. “I mean, I took three months off and I can promise you I know if I touched sand. Reed was assessed a 2-shot penalty at the Hero World Challenge in December after he twice took practice swings that swiped sand away from his ball in a waste area. As for the question of whether Reed’s actions were intentional, Kostis stopped short of providing an answer. If you play the game you understand the rules. February 20, 2020 | 12:02pm | Updated February 20, 2020 | 12:46pm. Peter Kostis is here to discuss his departure from CBS, golf on TV, what needs to change, other Patrick Reed incidents he’s seen (! I'm not even sure he knows that he's doing it, sometimes. Kostis said he continued to leave the FedEx Cup out of his post-round interviews with winners, which he believes led to a diminished role and eventually played a part in him losing his job altogether. “I was in the tower on 16 at San Diego, and (Reed) hit it over the green and did the same thing,” Kostis said.

And he didn’t want me talking about Majors.”. I'm not going to assign intent.". Privacy Notice Just three days after CBS announced that Kostis and fellow CBS mainstay Gary McCord would not have their contracts renewed, Davis Love III was hired as a new announcer. ", Kostis added: "But I can't say anything. It turns out the Houston Astros aren’t the only American professional athletes being hit with bombshells about cheating allegations these days. Even at World No.1, Justin Thomas is underappreciated, Why the Memorial was praised for a setup that would have been ridiculed at the US Open, With just eight weeks until the Playoffs, the FedEx Cup standings don’t look anything like you’d expect, The clubs Cameron Champ used to win the Sanderson Farms Championship, Bubba Watson reveals that struggles with anxiety have taken him to some dark places, NZ Open cancelled: “We remain committed to showcasing the very best of Queenstown in February 2022”. Kostis pointed to two more incidents — another in San Diego and one at the Travelers Championship in Hartford — where he claims to have seen Reed improve his lie. GOLF.com and GOLF Magazine are published by EB GOLF MEDIA LLC, a division of 8AM GOLF. Another time came at the Farmers Insurance Open. Get the latest odds on all the top sports.

Apple: https://t.co/q9YDSK4PsOSpotify: https://t.co/sICOmq7eel pic.twitter.com/OJLOCjbsjG, — No Laying Up (@NoLayingUp) February 19, 2020, “They had gotten a call from the commissioner,” Kostis said. You understand the integrity that goes on. “He said, ‘We just feel like things have gotten a bit stale and we want to go in a different direction.’ … He denies it now, but that was the exact quote. He didn’t know what to say, when I said, ‘Well, the lie that I saw originally wouldn’t have allowed for this shot.’ Cause he put four or five clubs behind the ball, kinda faking whether or not he was going to hit this shot or that shot. When reached by Golf Digest, officials with CBS and the PGA Tour declined to comment about the Kostis’ interview. To receive GOLF’s all-new newsletters, subscribe for free here. "But we could comment if a penalty was called," he said.

He is a teaching pro who works out of Scottsdale, Arizona. "I saw him, I was in the tower at 16 at San Diego on the par-3 during a Golf Channel telecast and he hit over the green, and he did the same thing," Kostis said on the podcast. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. © 2020 Advance Local Media LLC. There was another incident at Hartford and another incident at San Diego. “It’s been my experience that people who are trying to get away with something think they’re invisible.

The network supposedly pushed for Kostis to work through this month’s Waste Management Phoenix Open so they could give him a proper “retirement” send-off, but Kostis declined.

But on Wednesday, ScoreGolf’s Rick Young published an interview he conducted with Kostis in the wake of Kostis’ CBS dismissal, and, Kostis opened up … On being pressured into promoting PGA Tour initiatives: Kostis described the PGA Tour voicing its displeasure with Kostis asking a first-time tour winner how it felt to earn an invite to the Masters. The network is also reportedly close to signing a nine-year extension of its broadcast contract with the tour. But with multiple alleged incidents now involving Reed, does rule-breaking run rampant on Tour? It’s one of those things where you know, if you look at the video obviously he grazes the sand twice and then he still chops down on it.”. While Kostis naturally has an axe to grind with his ex-employer, his comments were particularly pointed. “No. Peter Kostis gave a fairly damning interview on the "No Laying Up" podcast.

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