Jim Nantz: “The greatest stretch of golf in the history of the game.”

CBS Sports will provide 12 to 13 hours of coverage each day for the PGA Championship, with much of it going to ESPN. A good bit will be in prime time on the east coast and Midwest.

According to CBS Sports lead anchor, Jim Nantz, in a CBS press conference to preview their coverage at Harding Park, the PGA Championship is a great way to kick off what he called “the greatest stretch of golf in the history of the game.”

What Nantz is referring to, of course, is the fact that beginning this week, we will have seven major championships in 11 months: The PGA this week, the U.S. Open to kick off the 2021 PGA Tour season and the Masters in November. Then in 2021: The Players, the Masters, the PGA the U.S. Open and the British Open, all hopefully, in their regular slots in the golf calendar. (We wrote about some of that in April.)

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In addition, that series of spectacular golf will be capped off by Olympic golf and followed a month or so later by the 2021 Ryder Cup.

Never have so many had such a huge chance for glory in such a short time.

“To have a stretch of golf, you get four in a year, usually. We are going to have seven in 11 months, plus, again, THE PLAYERS, the Playoffs, all that,” Nantz insisted. “There’s tonnage of championships, massively important events.”

“I think that’s what we saw last year when it was the first time we started with The Players in March, the Masters in April, PGA in May, U.S. Open, ( British) Open,” Sir Nick Faldo added. “Some guys got it wrong. They actually said they overplayed, underplayed, just trying to get that balance.”

Faldo added that he would have loved the opportunity, in his prime, to have so many majors in a short period of time.

“If you got on a roll, what could you do with that number of majors,” he said. “You could have your whole career in 11 months.”

He said it would be worth going into a golf bubble for 11 months and forgetting about resting until it was over. Faldo was known for his ability to shut out distractions and concentrate on his golf game, and in fact, this stretch would have been perfect for someone who was as disciplined as he was in his prime.

His results proved the approach worked. After many seasons of coming close but not closing out majors, Faldo won six, three Masters and three British Opens.

“I’ll be quite happy to be exhausted for the following month and go sit on a beach. I would have loved this opportunity,” he added.

In addition to the CBS coverage that has been on air since golf returned to television, Faldo, Ian Baker-Finch and Frank Nobilo will be on site for the first time since the winter months. Dottie Pepper is also on hand as is Trevor Immelman.

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Viewers will be glad to know that half of the commercials will feature the golf in a box shot where golf continues as the commercials play.

CBS third and final round telecasts will air Saturday 4:00 to 10:00 PM and Sunday from 3:00 to 9:00 PM.

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