By GolfLynk Publisher on Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Category: Geoff Shackelford

CBS's Lance Barrow Signs Off With 2020 Masters: "Just say yes."

Lance Barrow will slide on a headset one last time this week as he bids farewell producing CBS’s 2020 Masters coverage.

He’s penned a lovely Golf.com recollection of his time working for CBS. As always I suggest reading the full piece. A teaser:

My starting salary was $60 a week. You learn, and you rise, by doing, by listening, by watching — and by getting the job done. Chuck would say to me, “Humble yourself: Get me half a cup of black.”

In golf and TV, your classroom is everywhere. In my early years there were many Sunday nights when, after a tournament, I found myself on the same flight back to Dallas-Fort Worth as Don January, Lee Trevino and Charles Coody. They would all be in their sports coats, of course, so I would be, too. They would talk about the shots they hit, what the other players were like under pressure, rules disputes. All I did was listen.

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