Davis Love III on stepping down from analyst role: 'I struggled at it, frankly'

Davis Love III’s professional life has been a study in consistency, even by PGA Tour standards, with 21 victories, a major championship and a .500 record as a U.S. Ryder Cup captain. But television was different.

Although he’d dabbled in announcing before this year, the Tour’s 2020 West Coast swing was Love’s first full-time foray into on-course analyst for CBS. In a phone interview with GolfChannel.com on Thursday, the 56-year-old admitted he knew immediately that things weren’t right.

“Go back to the four West Coast events and I got off to a rough start and it just wasn’t working for me,” Love said. “I found the mechanics hard and being entertaining was hard. It’s kind of like you’re…