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The Ben Wright Collection

Ben Wright is a regular contributor to LINKS Magazine. At right is a collection of his most recent columns.

About Ben

Ben Wright broadcast golf and other sports for CBS TV for 23 years. A native of England,Wright was educated at Felsted School, Essex, England, and at London University.

He became a sportswriter, then golf correspondent of the Daily Dispatch in Manchester and for the Daily Mirror in London before becoming a freelance writer and broadcaster in 1961.

In addition to serving as an announcer for CBS TV Sports since 1972, Ben commentated on golf for the BBC, ITV and Australian Television. As a member of the CBS golf team, Ben won an EMMY award in 1980.

Ben now resides in North Carolina.

	Columns: Aussie Cool When the professional golf tours were still to many just a game rather than big business, Jack Newton and Bob Shearer, were about as wild as they come read more »
	Columns: Buttered and Bunkered Of all the great golfers I have seen in more than half a century of covering the game, the best never to win a major was Irishman Christy O’Connor Sr read more »
	Columns: Cart Blanch The most regrettable day of my life in golf was the day I was forced to used a cart read more »
	Columns: Cliffs Valley Days Jim Anthony, the owner and developer of the Cliffs Communities, came into my life almost by accident read more »
	Columns: Divine Back Nine During his 50-plus years as a chronicler of the game, no event captured the author’s soul more completely than Ben Crenshaw’s emotional 1995 Masters victory read more »
	Columns: Feeling Chipper Christmas came early for me this year—on August 27, to be exact. read more »
	Columns: Frankly Speaking My debut with the CBS golf team came at the 1972 U.S. Professional Match Play Championship read more »
	Columns: Frequent Flier Gary Player is as much a legend for the countless miles he has traveled as for the worldwide victories he has amassed upon arrival. read more »
	Columns: Gutsy Recovery What do we make of a hole-in-one? Proper outcome or outrageous fluke? read more »
	Columns: Miller Time I was lucky to have witnessed some of the greatest final rounds in U.S. Open history read more »
	Columns: Money Game In 20 years, no aspect of golf has changed as much as the financial stakes associated with various parts of the game read more »
	Columns: Oddly Matched "British Captain Summoned before PGA Executive Committee, Fired for Lack of Effort in First-year Ryder Cup Debacle.” read more »
	Columns: Pass the Remote More golf on television over the last two decades hasn’t necessarily led to better coverage of the sport read more »
	Columns: Slithery Slope Some of my fondest memories of Augusta originated, oddly enough, during bathroom breaks read more »
	Columns: Sneak Preview Until Tom Watson came along, no one dominated the British Open Championship like Peter Thompson read more »
	Columns: Southern Fried Seve I've never heard galleries react with quite the same passion as those at the Masters read more »
	Columns: Switching Channels As someone who has spent 50 years in golf broadcasting, I am often asked my opinion of the Golf Channel read more »
	Columns: Uneasy Ryder A lot of golfers probably imagine that poor behavior at the Ryder Cup originated at The Country Club in 1999. read more »

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