Key Highlights
- Before joining Golf Channel in 2020, he’d been a successful PGA Tour player for more than a decade, earning $12.5 million on the course and winning three times. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementBut it wasn’t until that U. S.
- Open at Pinehurst, weeks after the launch of his now-infamous on-course segments at Golf Channel, that Wagner transformed from a TV analyst into an internet sensation. He stuck out on the range, wearing a light-blue NBC Sports polo over his six-foot-three frame, his jet-black mustache glistening in the sun.
- And, because he stuck out, it wasn’t long before the well-wishers arrived.
- Fellow broadcasters first, then fellow media members, and before long, players and caddies. It had been a dizzying few weeks for Wagner in the lead-up to that U. S.
- Open.