This entire Nick Greenslade/Observer article on how Nick Faldo remade himself from a recalcitrant PGA Tour pro to an affable CBS commentator is quite interesting, but I no idea that Faldo is a valuable annuity for the family law bar. Toward the end fo the article, Greenslade summarizes Faldo’s three marriages and divorces:
Nick’s ladies
Melanie Rockall
‘We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four-and-a-half years,’ Faldo has said of his first marriage, which began in 1979 when he was only 21. . .
Gill Bennett
‘Socially, he was a 24-handicapper,’ Bennett said of Faldo, whom she had met while working as his agent’s secretary when he was still married to Rockall. The couple married in 1986 and Bennett later revealed that the births of their three children, who now live with her in Ascot, Berkshire, had been induced to avoid any clashes with his playing schedule. . . .
Brenna Cepelak
College golfer Cepelak was 20 when she met Faldo, . . . ‘It’s always sad when these things end,’ [Faldo] said. Cepelak responded to the break-up by taking an iron to his Porsche. ‘It was a nine-iron or a wedge,’ recalled Faldo. ‘It was a very special car. It was so hi-tech, it was made of plastic. The club kept bouncing off. It wouldn’t leave a dent. I auctioned it off.’
Valerie Bercher
The third Mrs Faldo, whom he had first met at a tournament in her native Switzerland in 1997, lasted five years. . . . On learning of his son-in-law’s application for divorce last year, Bercher’s father said: ‘We are at a loss to explain. But it is not the first time he has changed his mind. He bought a Bentley recently, but once he had it he was bored with it after a month and got rid of it.’