Most golf followers know of Jim Nantz. Some followers may even know concerning the longtime CBS broadcaster’s epic yard setup at his Pebble Seashore house, which features a duplicate of the famed par-3 seventh gap at Pebble Seashore Golf Hyperlinks.
That yard gap took eight months to construct and was accomplished in 2015. A number of tales have been written about it since and a number of the recreation’s largest stars have performed it.
However guess what? Nantz is at it once more.
Golfweek reported earlier this month that Nantz was within the course of of making his newest yard golf gap — a miniature duplicate of the inexperienced of the par-5 thirteenth gap at Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership — though this one was being put in at his Nashville, Tenn., house. (It’s good to be Nantz.)
We requested Jim Nantz about golf TV’s critics. He gave us an epic response.
Nantz not too long ago joined his former CBS buddies Peter Kostis and Gary McCord on their “Kostis & McCord: Off Their Rockers” podcast, a GOLF Manufacturing, to debate his profession, favourite tales and, after all, his latest yard creation, which Nantz is fast to say remains to be in growth.
This one, nonetheless, has some bells and whistles.
There are a couple of yard tee areas already put in, however Nantz additionally needed an elevated tee, from a deck off the upstairs visitor bed room. However that didn’t work resulting from permits and such — “it was an engineering nightmare,” he mentioned — so Nantz did what any savvy golf broadcaster would do: He turned his screened-in patio right into a tee field.
“I made a decision I used to be going to dwell extra in a Topgolf state of affairs,” Nantz mentioned. “Strike all of the furnishings, and let’s take a number of the columns which might be out holding the display screen — and ensure they aren’t structural — and get considered one of these distant management screens that come up, and voilà, you’ll be able to open it up and you’ve got a shot into that inexperienced.”
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Nantz mentioned they reduce into the bluestone flooring and added turf for the tee field.
“So you bought a really cool expertise the place you’ll be able to hit slightly pitch shot, and also you get that nice ball within the air, type of hovering by means of the sky really feel, all when you are being serenaded by the Augusta melody,” Nantz mentioned earlier than including, tongue-in-cheek, “Pay attention, I like subtlety, guys. I like understated.”
However wait, there’s extra!
“You recognize the trend now in golf are these consolation stations, the place each fourth or fifth gap you’ll be able to go in and simply seize and go, nobody is charging you,” Nantz mentioned. “I’ve obtained an entire military of individuals proper now putting in my margarita machine and my ice cream maker.”
You’ll be able to watch the complete interview with Nantz under.
