Meet the Wife of CBS Golf Announcer Jim Nantz

Just over a month ago longtime CBS announcer Jim Nantz stunned the golfing world when he announced when he would retire.

In wasn't the beloved broadcaster's sudden retirement that shocked fans, instead his decision to announce his retirement 11 years before it happens. Before his 40th year broadcasting the Masters, Nantz said he plans to retire at the 100th Masters...in 2036.

"A lot of things have to happen for that to occur," Nantz told Bunkered when revealing he wants his final call of the tournament to come in the 100th Masters in 2036. "First off, my health would have to hold up. Secondly, CBS and Augusta National would have to want me to come back. But if all the stars aligned, right now, it feels like a pretty good exit point. April 14, 2036. That is my scheduled retirement date. It would be a perfect place to walk out."

His second wife, Courtney Richards will have to give the "okay" on that, just like she did with the name of their first child. Daughter Finley was named after Samuel Finley Brown Morse, the founder of Pebble Beach, Nantz told Golf Digest in 2019.

"In 2014, when my wife, Courtney, was expecting our daughter and we were contemplating a name, I said, 'How about Finley?' " he recalled. "Only after Courtney said that she loved the name did I reveal that it was inspired by an aspect of Samuel Finley Brown Morse. I admit now she might not have been as smitten had I told her about the Sam Morse connection up front."

Nantz and proposed to Richards in 2010, just a year after his divorce from Lorrie Carlsen, whom he was married to for 26 years. He and Carlsen had one daughter, Caroline.

Nantz and Richards have two children together, Finley and Jameson.

Related: Everyone Had the Same Complaint About PGA Championship After Delay