CBS Sports’ Jim Nantz gives insight on Patrick Mahomes’ golf game ahead of The Match
It’s less than two weeks until The Match golf event featuring four of the NFL’s best quarterbacks, including the Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes.
Mahomes will partner with the Bills’ Josh Allen in the charity event in Las Vegas, and they’ll face off against the Buccaneers’ Tom Brady and Packers’ Aaron Rodgers.
Although TBS will air the 12-hole event, CBS Sports broadcaster Jim Nantz shared his thoughts on the participants in an interview with the Buffalo News.
Nantz, who is CBS Sports’ lead NFL play-by-play announcer and the voice of The Masters, knows each of the four quarterbacks well. In fact, Nantz and Mahomes have hit the links together.
Not long after the Chiefs won Super Bowl LIV, the duo played Cypress Point Club and Pebble Beach on the same day.
“The first hole I ever played with Patrick, he hit it over the green in two on a par 4,” Nantz told the Buffalo News’ Alan Pergament. “He had an impossible chip off a downhill lie and made birdie. The odds of the best tour player getting up and down, Phil Mickelson in his prime as a short game wizard, would have gotten up and down is one out of 10 times.”
Nantz also noted that, like the Dalai Lama in “Caddyshack,” Mahomes is a “big hitter.”
“When I played with Patrick, he was still kind of new to the game,” said Nantz. “We played 36 holes and he never hit a driver. But he hit a 3-wood so far I would put it up there with anybody else’s driver. … I think he has learned now to hit that club, but his 3-wood was going 330 yards.”
The Match is June 1 at 5:30 p.m. at the Wynn Golf Club.
This story was originally published May 19, 2022 at 8:47 AM.
