The longtime CBS broadcaster talks about covering Woods’s first Masters win and his most recent title, ‘the return to glory’ call and going silent at the finish.
CBS broadcaster Jim Nantz called Tiger Woods’s Masters win Sunday the best event he’s ever covered. By Ben Strauss Ben Strauss Sports and media reporter Email Bio Follow April 17 at 6:30 AM Tiger Woods won his first major tournament in 11 years Sunday at the Masters, and longtime broadcaster Jim Nantz was on the call for CBS. “The return to glory,” Nantz intoned as Woods’s championship-sealing putt settled into the 18th hole.
Nantz: It came to me right at the very end. I didn’t have anything locked up in my head because it could have gone so many different ways on Sunday. It was different in 1997 when Tiger won. I called it “a win for the ages.” That win was much bigger; it had a social significance that transcended the sport . . . In 1997, he had a nine-shot lead going into Sunday so on Saturday night . . . I thought through what that last scene was going to look like and what I would say over the last putt.
Nantz: That was an easy one . . . I was feeling it. I don’t mean to sound like a wacko who’s spinning off in some crazy hippie orbit, but I was feeling the moment. I call golf with my head and my heart, I don’t have any notes in front of me — it’s different from basketball and football in that feel . . . There was no way I was going to say anything over those images of Tiger with his family. The chanting was in the background and the scene was rich.
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