“One of my great dreams in life is to do an interview with Feherty. He’s one of the funniest men alive.” – Former President Bill Clinton

Apparently, the former president has lowered his dreams quite a bit since leaving office. I’m pretty sure Gary McCord wouldn’t rank hanging out with David Feherty among his top lifetime dreams.

Oh, we kid because we love, David.

Still, it has to be pretty heady stuff for a lad from Northern Ireland to be talking to a former U.S. president. Here’s a sneak preview and the release from the Golf Channel. I’m hoping to have more with Feherty on Monday.

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ORLANDO, Fla. (May 10, 2012) – Golf Channel’s hit primetime series, Feherty, has landed former U.S President Bill Clinton to lead a stellar lineup of top personalities across sports, entertainment and politics to round out its second season.  Series host David Feherty sits with the former president and avid golfer for a candid conversation, Monday at 10 p.m. ET.  The next wave of guests announced today by the network also includes business magnate Donald Trump; golfers John Daly, Graeme McDowell and Fuzzy Zoeller; and golf commentators Peter Alliss and Roger Maltbie.

Political establishment meets political incorrectness as former President Bill Clinton sits down for a frank and fresh discussion with Golf’s Channel’s irreverent Feherty.

“You obviously don’t have as many advisors as you had when you were in office.  My first question is, ‘What the hell would possess you to do this (interview)?’”  Feherty when greeting Clinton on the set

They cover a host of topics that range from the difficulty of keeping focus inside the beltway to the almost equally hard challenge of keeping your ball inside the fairway, as Clinton talks about the formative moments of his childhood, the pressures of the presidency and his lifelong love of golf.

Clinton about his role as president:  “I loved it.  I loved every day of it.  It’s a good thing we had a two term limit, I’d have made them vote me out or take me out in a pine box.”

Feherty:  “Well, there’s a lot of people wishing you were still there.”

Clinton (laughing):  “And some wishing they’d taken me out in that pine box.”

Highlights from the political end of the conversation include frames of reference Clinton used to make life and death decisions as commander-in-chief, the insatiable need for some people to elevate themselves by destroying the reputations of their rivals, and the impact that race relations and the civil rights movement had on him as a young man and how those led to his role in helping to bring peace to Feherty’s native Northern Ireland.

Golf highlights include the role that golf has played in Clinton’s health and in developing friendships with the likes of George H.W. Bush.  He revisits a surreal round of golf on the Irish links course of Ballybunion during which the president had to navigate a cemetery, found out that most of the caddies at the course had bet against him and tried to figure out why the local town had built a statue in his honor.

“So, I thought to myself, I’m going to desecrate an Irish cemetery and it will be my enduring image in Ireland.  Not my work for peace.”  Bill Clinton on teeing off on a windy day in front of 12,000 residents of Ballybunion