Just before CBS’ Final Round coverage of The Masters®, two weeks from today, we have another edition of Jim Nantz Remembers, where he looks into a memorable tournament from years past. This year, Jim looks back at the 1975 Masters where Jack Nicklaus had to fend off the charging Tom Weiskopf and Johnny Miller to win his 5th Green Jacket at Augusta.
Every year since 2006, Jim Nantz takes an in-depth hour-long look at a Masters tournament and this year, it’s 1975. Here’s a preview of what you’ll see on April 10.
CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR FEATURES “JIM NANTZ REMEMBERS AUGUSTA: THE 1975 MASTERS®” ON SUNDAY, APRIL 10
CBS Sports will broadcast a CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR special JIM NANTZ REMEMBERS AUGUSTA: THE 1975 MASTERS® on Sunday, April 10 (1:00-2:00 PM, ET) on the CBS Television Network. Jim Nantz, this year covering his 26th Masters for CBS Sports, and 24th as host, revisits one of the most memorable showdowns in golf history – the 1975 Masters – when Jack Nicklaus fended off Tom Weiskopf and Johnny Miller through the final holes to win the coveted green jacket. Nicklaus sank a 40-foot birdie putt on the 16th hole that proved to be the difference in his record fifth Masters victory.
“Back in 1975 people didn’t have TiVo or DVRs to be able to record events if they missed them on television,” said Nantz. “This is a rare mulligan for people to look back and experience this historic tournament. It is a privilege to bring back the 1975 Masters, considered by many golf purists to have been the most dramatic final round in the history of this storied event.”
This one-hour special includes a conversation with six-time Masters champion Nicklaus, as well as Weiskopf and Miller, as each relives that classic Sunday afternoon in April 1975.
JIM NANTZ REMEMBERS AUGUSTA: THE 1975 MASTERS is produced and directed by Chris Svendsen. The Executive Producer is Jim Nantz.
About Jim Nantz Productions:
Jim Nantz Productions was established in 2005. This year’s retrospective on the 1975 Masters is Nantz’s sixth production of the Emmy Award-nominated series. On Masters Sunday, April 9, 2006, JIM NANTZ REMEMBERS AUGUSTA re-aired the 1986 Masters that featured Jack Nicklaus’s epic victory. In 2007, JIM NANTZ REMEMBERS AUGUSTA: THE 1960 MASTERS featured Arnold Palmer’s historic win which was, for the first time, re-broadcast and colorized. THE 1960 MASTERS special was nominated for a 2007 Sports Emmy Award for the George Wensel Technical Achievement Award. In 2008, JIM NANTZ REMEMBERS AUGUSTA: THE 1978 MASTERS featured Gary Player’s improbable win; in 2009, JIM NANTZ REMEMBERS AUGUSTA: SEVE AT THE MASTERS looked back on one of the game’s and the Masters’ greatest players, Seve Ballesteros; and in 2010 JIM NANTZ REMEMBERS AUGUSTA: THE 1977 MASTERS told the story of the classic showdown between Tom Watson holding off Jack Nicklaus for the victory.
And after the jump, we have another press release on another CBS special that will before the Third Round of The Masters®.
On Saturday, April 9, Jim Nantz hosts a special on Phil Mickelson’s three times in winning The Masters®. It was at Augusta where Mickelson won his first Major championship and he won again last year as his wife, Amy was recovering from breast cancer. We have a look at what the special will entail.
CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR PRESENTS “PHIL AT AUGUSTA” ON SATURDAY, APRIL 9
CBS Sports will broadcast a CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR golf special, PHIL AT AUGUSTA on Saturday, April 9 (2:30-3:30 PM, ET) on the CBS Television Network.
Hosted by CBS Sports’ Jim Nantz, PHIL AT AUGUSTA takes us inside Phil Mickelson’s triumphs at the Masters®, the place where he truly fulfilled his destiny.
One of golf’s most popular champions throughout his career, Mickelson had won tournaments and prize money beyond imagination. But it was in 2004 when he birdied five of the last seven holes at Augusta that “his time” had finally arrived to don his first green jacket. No longer tagged with the label of “best golfer to have never won a major,” two years later in 2006 he won his second green jacket. Then in 2010 with his wife, Amy, recovering from breast cancer, Mickelson tailored his third green jacket with his emotional “win for the family.”
The one-hour special features interviews with “Team Mickelson” including his parents, caddy Jim “Bones” McKay, swing coach Butch Harmon and short game guru Dave Pelz.
PHIL AT AUGUSTA is produced and directed by two-time Emmy Award winner Mickey Holden of the Holden Production Group. CBS Sports’ Andy Freedman is coordinating producer.
Lance Barrow is Coordinating Producer, CBS Sports Golf. Harold Bryant is Vice President, Production, CBS Sports.
And that will do it.
