CBS Golf hires Johnson Wagner, completes broadcast team for 2026

Two years ago, on a blisteringly hot practice range at the U.S. Open, Johnson Wagner arrived. It wasn’t that Wagner was a stranger to these parts before arriving in Pinehurst — Wagner had played in two U.S. Opens, in 2004 and 2007, before arriving at the national championship as a broadcaster in 2024. 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. But 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...