BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - One of the sadder sights at this PGA Championship is CBS announcer David Feherty leaning against a cane, in obvious pain, waiting to interview players coming off the course. Feherty got leveled by a car while biking through a nearby Michigan suburb on Tuesday - the second time he’s been run over while pursuing his cycling passion in the last several months.

This time, the hit from a car that didn’t stop knocked Feherty unconscious. He estimates he spent 40 minutes lying in the bushes at the side of the road before he awoke and staggered back to the Ritz Carlton where he’s staying. As Feherty talked mumbo jumbo, an ambulance was called (the man himself does not remember anything until he awoke in the hospital). Now Feherty has a concussion, a separated left shoulder and a bruised butt cheek (it’s Feherty, you don’t always know when he’s joking) to go with the three broken ribs and the punctured lung he suffered while getting run over while cycling in Dallas in March.

Of course, this didn’t stop the best golfers in the world from giving Feherty some good-natured ribbing.

When Rich Beem walked off the course Friday evening and saw Feherty leaning against the cane, Beam screamed out, “Give it up! You need to stick to four wheels.”

Grinning as he shook his head, Feherty shot back, “I don’t deserve this.”

When Phil Mickelson walked off the course and grinned at seeing Feherty, the announcer quickly said, “Don’t even go there.”

“No, I just feel bad for you,” Mickelson said. “Have you thought of another pastime?”

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