The famed sportscaster Jim Nantz, who has been working with the CBS network since 1985, has recently shed his light on various subjects, including the present and future state of Golf.
According to Awful Announcing, Nantz continues to believe that the sport will be alright despite recent fluctuations. Golf has been subjected to unremitting series of disapproval, considering the state of PGA Tour and LIV separation doing significant damage.
The financial side of the sport has attracted attention due to certain uncertainties as well. Due to several reasons, the audience’s attendance towards the sport has suffered. During a recent appearance on the “No Laying Up” podcast, Nantz spoke regarding the PGA Tour and how few missing details have impacted the event.
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Nantz shared with host Chris Solomon, “I still believe Golf is going to be fine. Take the West Coast this year, which usually gives us a little momentum going into the year. We have a pretty good foothold on events on the West Coast with San Diego, Pebble, L.A. We didn’t have Phoenix this year because it was a Super Bowl year for us, and NBC got to broadcast. You think about some years in the past on the West Coast. You were getting Phil (Mickelson) and Tiger (Woods) winning at least two of those. You could pretty much bank on, one of them’s going to win San Diego. Phil won Pebble five times. Phil might win L.A. There was all positive energy.”
He further continued, “Well this year, here we are in early May and I’m thinking back to some of the leaderboards and the champions we had. There was not a great familiarity with them. Maybe a lot of this has to do with the fact that we have created signature events and non-signature events. But Torrey Pines, which I called from inside the stadium at the AFC Championship Game in Baltimore, Matthieu Pavon take nothing away from him, that was a great performance, and he’s played well. He’s shown he has real game, but there was no familiarity with him; didn’t create buzz.”
“Sunday at Pebble Beach is a washout. That didn’t help. That’s the week between the AFC/NFC Championship Game weekend and the Super Bowl. Golf is the thing. That’s where San Diego used to reside. It was always the highest-rated regular-season golf event of the year because you’re in the dead of winter and usually have a star-studded field. And usually, in this case, we had guys that were up there…They got washed out, no buzz, nothing.”
Nantz also touched upon Hideki Matsuyama’s win during The Genesis Invitational, clinching what was a historic win. Nantz, in his thoughts, also shared that he does not think Golf is in any peril.
