Kevin Kisner appeared on Barstool Sports’ Fore Play podcast as a guest and talked about the week he had.
He covered a lot of things in that conversation, including Rory’s triumph, Scottie Scheffler and Justin Rose’s near-miss. Apart from these, he also talked about other big moments from last week’s tournament.
However, when the discussion turned to the broadcast, Kisner didn’t hold back. He went on a rant about CBS’s shortcomings for this. He also said some harsh words. Read below what he said.
Kisner said, “I have a very biased opinion, so I want to go ahead and put that out there before I start since I work for the other network.”
He continued with, “And I was so f—ing confused the entire time by trying to keep up with the behind-the-scenes CBS feed. They’re literally showing s— that I knew happened ten minutes ago all day long. It was so bad that I, in fact, texted Colt Knost during the show and said, ‘Do you all ever show a live shot?’ I’m better off following the f—ing app than following your feed.’”
“So your entire Masters coverage is a fantasy world. It’s bulls–t.”
“Whatever we all watch has already happened seven minutes ago. Could you imagine watching the f—ing Super Bowl and being like, ‘Oh yeah, Tom Brady threw that touchdown seven minutes ago, we’re going to act like it’s live here so our announcers can sound really smart and we’re going to sit here and he’s going to throw it wide open down the middle but it actually happened seven minutes ago and everyone in the stadium’s taking a p—. What are we doing, man?”
Kisner became the lead Golf analyst for NBC in 2024. He was working as a lead analyst for Sirius XM’s Masters broadcast team at Augusta National. His comments were not great for a man working as an employee of the PGA Tour broadcast partners. They never air public criticism of one another.
“You have no commercials. Play live shots. I don’t know. Our production team at NBC prides itself on playing every shot that they possibly can live. And we talk about it with Dan Hicks. When we can’t, we have to say a moment ago, because we’re trying to make the whole movie make sense, right? We don’t want to show you a tap-in on 16 and go ‘Oh yeah, he’s already hitting his shot on 17’ because obviously he has to walk over there. I have no idea what they’re doing. Literally no idea. They’re showing every shot on tape. It’s incredible. I don’t even know how the announcers call it.”
After these embarrassing comments, he returned to the Fore Play podcast to issue an apology. You can read below what he said on the podcast.
“It’s been an interesting few days, but it is what it is,” Kisner said. “I just have to apologize to the golf team at CBS. I crossed the line, probably, too much by talking about that whole content. And I know from my short time in the business how wild production is, right? It is a very difficult thing to produce a live show and make it all work, and everybody does their best.”
He continued, “NBC screws up all the time, and we’re just trying to do our best, and I went too far on being critical of them, and I just want all the people associated with it to know I apologize. They’re our partners with the PGA Tour and they continue to showcase in a great way the game we all love, and they’re all trying to do their best, and I was too critical of them.”
